Bauernmalerei
German, noun/ˈbaʊ̯ɐnˌmaːləˈʁaɪ̯/
Bauernmalerei is spelled B-A-U-E-R-N-M-A-L-E-R-E-I (13 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written German, the 352,658th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bauernmalerei is a German feminine noun meaning “folk art, rustic painting, rural painting, naive painting (a generic term for folk art wherein peasant motifs are applied to decorate…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zusammenfassende Bezeichnung für volkstümliche Malerei, bei der bäuerliche Motive zur Verzierung auf Möbel…”.
What does Bauernmalerei mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefolk art, rustic painting, rural painting, naive painting (a generic term for folk art wherein peasant motifs are applied to decorate furniture and other objects)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. zusammenfassende Bezeichnung für volkstümliche Malerei, bei der bäuerliche Motive zur Verzierung auf Möbel oder Gebrauchsgegenstände aufgebracht werden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Bauernmalerei?
- /ˈbaʊ̯ɐnˌmaːləˈʁaɪ̯/
- [ˈbaʊ̯ɐnmaːləˌʁaɪ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Bauernmalerei in German?
Bauernmalerei appears about once in every 35 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).