Wolfgang

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wolfgang, from Middle High German Wolfgang, from Old High German Wolfgang, from wolf (“wolf”) + gang (“path, course”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊlf.ɡæŋ/
• (or like German) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlf.ɡɑŋ/
• Hyphenation: Wolf‧gang

Proper noun

Wolfgang

1. A German male given name.

Translations

male given name

• Amharic: ቮልፍጋንግ (volfəgang)
• Arabic: فولفغانغ
• Aragonese: Wolfgang
• Armenian: Վոլֆգանգ (Volfgang)
• Aymara: Wolfgang
• Azerbaijani: Volfqanq
• Bashkir: Вольфганг (Volʹfgang)
• Basque: Wolfgang
• Belarusian: Вольфганг (Vólʹfhanh)
• Bengali: ভোল্‌ফগাংক্ (Bhōl‌phagāṅk‌)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: ভোল্‌ফগাংক্ (Bhōl‌phagāṅk‌)
• Bulgarian: Во̀лфганг (Vòlfgang)
• Cebuano: Wolfgang
• Central Kurdish: فوڵفگانگ (fullifgang)
• Chamorro: Wolfgang
• Cheyenne: Wolfgang
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 胡爾夫岡／胡尔夫冈, 胡尔夫岡 (wu⁴ ji⁵ fu¹ gong¹)

  Mandarin: 沃爾夫岡／沃尔夫冈 (Wò'ērfugāng), 沃夫岡／沃夫冈 (Wòfugāng)

• Chuvash: Вольфганг (Volʹfgang)
• Corsican: Wolfgang
• Danish: Wolfgang
• Esperanto: Volfgango
• Estonian: Wolfgang
• Extremaduran: Wolfgang
• Fiji Hindi: Wolfgang
• Finnish: Wolfgang (fi)
• French: Wolfgang (fr)
• Friulian: Wolfgang
• Gagauz: Wolfgang
• Galician: Wolfgang
• Georgian: ვოლფგანგი (volpgangi)
• German: Wolfgang (de)

  Central Franconian: Wolfgang

  Low German: Wolfgang

• Greek: Βόλφγκανγκ (el) (Vólfgkangk)
• Greenlandic: Wolfgang
• Haitian Creole: Wolfgang
• Hawaiian: Wolfgang
• Hebrew: וולפגנג
• Hindi: वुल्फ़्गैंग (vulfgaiṅg)
• Hungarian: Wolfgang (hu)
• Ido: Wolfgang
• Ilocano: Wolfgang
• Indonesian: Wolfgang
• Interlingua: Wolfgang
• Irish: Wolfgang
• Italian: Wolfgang
• Japanese: ヴォルフガング (Vorufugangu)
• Javanese: Wolfgang
• Kabyle: Wolfgang
• Kalmyk: Вольфганг (Volʹfgang)
• Kapampangan: Wolfgang
• Karakalpak: Wolfgang
• Korean: 볼프강 (Bolpeugang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Wolfgang (ku)

• Ligurian: Wolfgang
• Limburgish: Wolfgang
• Lithuanian: Volfgangas
• Luxembourgish: Wolfgang
• Manx: Wolfgang
• Marathi: वुल्फगँग m (vulphagĕṅga), वुल्फगांग m (vulphagāṅga)
• Mirandese: Wolfgang
• Nahuatl: Wolfgang
• Nepali: वोल्फगान्क (volphagānka)
• Newar: वुल्फग्याङ्ग (wulphagyāṅga)
• North Frisian: Wolfgang
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Wolfgang

  Nynorsk: Wolfgang

• Persian: ولفگانگ
• Picard: Wolfgang
• Portuguese: Wolfgang m
• Russian: Вольфганг (ru) (Volʹfgang)
• Samogitian: Wolfgang
• Scottish Gaelic: Wolfgang
• Serbo-Croatian: Wolfgang
• Slovak: Wolfgang
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Wolfgang

  Upper Sorbian: Wolfgang

• Spanish: Wolfgang (es)
• Swahili: Wolfgang
• Swedish: Wolfgang (sv)
• Turkish: Wolfgang
• West Frisian: Wolfgang
• Yiddish: װאָלפֿגאַנג (Volfgang)
• Yoruba: Wolfgang
• Zazaki: Wolfgang (Southern Zazaki)
• Zealandic: Wolfgang
• Zhuang: Wolfgang
• Zulu: Wolfgang

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wolfgang, from Middle High German Wolfgang, from Old High German Wolfgang, from wolf (“wolf”) + gang (“path, course”).

Proper noun

Wolfgang

1. (rare) a male given name

German

Etymology

From Middle High German Wolfgang, from Old High German Wolfgang, from wolf (“wolf”) + gang (“path, course”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlfɡaŋ(k)/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Wolf‧gang

Proper noun

Wolfgang m (proper noun, strong, genitive Wolfgangs or Wolfgang)

1. a male given name

Usage notes

• Traditionally popular in Germany and Austria, famously held by a tenth century saint.

Declension

Declension of Wolfgang [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Wolfgang
genitive	eines	des	Wolfgangs, Wolfgang
dative	einem	dem	Wolfgang
accusative	einen	den	Wolfgang

Derived terms

• Wolf (pet form)
• Wolfgangsee

References

• “Wolfgang” in Duden online

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• Wolfganc

Etymology

From Old High German Wolfgang, from wolf (“wolf”) + gang (“path, course”).

Proper noun

Wolfgang m

1. a male given name

Declension

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Descendants

• German: Wolfgang
  • English: Wolfgang
  • Danish: Wolfgang
  • Portuguese: Wolfgang

Old High German

Etymology

From wolf (“wolf”) +‎ gang (“path, course, journey”).

Proper noun

Wolfgang

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Wolfgang (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	Wolfgang	Wolfganga
accusative	Wolfgang	Wolfganga
genitive	Wolfganges	Wolfgango
dative	Wolfgange	Wolfgangum
instrumental	Wolfgangu	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: Wolfgang
  • German: Wolfgang
    • English: Wolfgang
    • Danish: Wolfgang
    • Portuguese: Wolfgang

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wolfgang, from Middle High German Wolfgang, from Old High German Wolfgang, from wolf (“wolf”) + gang (“path, course”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvowf.ɡɐ̃ɡ/, /ˈvolf.ɡɐ̃ɡ/

Proper noun

Wolfgang m

1. a male given name from German, equivalent to English Wolfgang