DDR

See also: DDr.

Translingual

Etymology

From German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

Symbol

DDR

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for East Germany from 1974 to 1990.

   Synonym: DD (alpha-2)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of DEU on the reunification of Germany.

Coordinate terms

• DEU (formerly West Germany)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /diː diː ɑː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /diː diː ɑɹ/

Noun

DDR (countable and uncountable, plural DDRs)

1. (electronics) Initialism of double data rate.
2. (computing) Double-data-rate computer RAM.

Synonyms

• (double data rate (computer)): 2DR

Hypernyms

computing

• DDR1 / DDR-I & GDDR1 / GDDR-I
• DDR2 / DDR-II & GDDR2 / GDDR-II
• DDR3 / DDR-III & GDDR3 / GDDR-III
• DDR RAM, DDR memory, DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM, DDR3 SDRAM
• GDDR, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, GDDR5

Related terms

computing

• ODR, 8DR
• QDR, 4DR
• SDR, 1DR

See also

• DIMM
• SDRAM
• SODIMM

Proper noun

DDR

2. (historical) GDR (German Democratic Republic) (from German DDR, initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik)

   Synonym: East Germany

3. (video games) Initialism of Dance Dance Revolution.

Further reading

• DDR on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• DRD, RD&D

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German DDR.

Proper noun

DDR

1. synonym of Østtyskland

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deː.deːˈɛr/

Proper noun

DDR f

1. initialism of Duitse Democratische Republiek (German Democratic Republic, GDR)

Finnish

Etymology

From German DDR (“GDR”), the German name of the state, abbreviated from Deutsche Demokratische Republik (“German Democratic Republic”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːˌdeːˌær/, [ˈde̞ːˌde̞ːˌær]
• Rhymes: -ær

Proper noun

DDR

1. GDR (German Democratic Republic, East Germany)

Declension

Inflection of DDR (type 10/koira) singular plural nominative DDR – genitive DDR:n – partitive DDR:ää – accusative DDR DDR:n – inessive DDR:ssä – elative DDR:stä – illative DDR:ään – adessive DDR:llä – ablative DDR:ltä – allative DDR:lle – essive DDR:nä – translative DDR:ksi – abessive DDR:ttä – instructive – – comitative – –

Synonyms

• Derkkula
• Harppi-Saksa
• Saksan demokraattinen tasavalta

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

DDR f (proper noun, genitive DDR)

1. (usually preceded by definite article, historical) initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic, GDR)

   Coordinate term: BRD

Declension

Declension of DDR [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	DDR
genitive	einer	der	DDR
dative	einer	der	DDR
accusative	eine	die	DDR

See also

• IM
• Ossi
• Stasi
• Wessi
• Zoni

Further reading

• “DDR” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

Interjection

DDR

1. (Internet slang) initialism of Dia dár réiteach (“Oh my god”)

Swedish

Etymology

From German DDR, initialism of Deutsche Demokratische Republik (“German Democratic Republic”).

Proper noun

DDR n (genitive DDR:s)

1. synonym of Östtyskland

Derived terms

• DDR-Sverige