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Abbreviation of English Erromangan.

erg

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sie.

From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).[1] Doublet of ergon and work.

erg (plural ergs)

  1. A unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules.

unit of work or energy

From French erg, from Algerian Arabic, from Arabic عِرْق (ʕirq).

the Grand Erg Occidental in the Sahara

erg (plural ergs or areg)

  1. (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.

Shortening.

erg (plural ergs)

  1. (rowing, slang) An ergometer.

erg (third-person singular simple present ergs, present participle erging, simple past and past participle erged)

  1. (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
    I erg every morning.
    She erged a steady state piece.

    • 2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, page 187:
      What I mean to sy is, the exercise is helping. Although I'm not sure how you erg properly at this stage, Pulling into the sternum would be problematic.

  2. ^ “erg, _n._1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).

erg m (plural ergs)

  1. erg (the unit of work or energy)

Borrowed from French erg.

erg m (plural ergs)

  1. erg (large desert region)

From Middle Dutch arch, erch, from Old Dutch arg, from Proto-West Germanic *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz.

erg (comparative erger, superlative ergst)

  1. serious, considerable, severe
  2. awful, terrible
Declension of erg
uninflected erg
inflected erge
comparative erger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial erg erger het ergsthet ergste
indefinite m./f. sing. erge ergere ergste
n. sing. erg erger ergste
plural erge ergere ergste
definite erge ergere ergste
partitive ergs ergers —

erg

  1. very
    Het appartement was erg klein.
    The apartment was very small.
  2. much; very much
    Ik haat het zo erg.
    I hate it so much.

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic, from Arabic عِرْق (ʕirq).

Le Grand Erg Occidental du Sahara

erg m (plural ergs)

  1. erg (desert region)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

erg m (plural ergs)

  1. erg (unit of work done)

Borrowed from an Old Irish word, probably áirge (“milking place”) (modern Irish áirí).

erg n

  1. a word of not entirely certain meaning, roughly shepherd's cottage or hill-pasture

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).

erg m inan

  1. (physics) erg (unit of work or energy)

Borrowed from Arabic عِرْق (ʕirq).

erg m inan

  1. (geomorphology) erg (desert region)

Borrowed from French erg.

erg m (plural ergi)

  1. erg

Borrowed from French erg.

erg m (plural ergs)

  1. (geology, geography) erg