Weihe
German, noun
Weihe is spelled W-E-I-H-E (5 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Weihe is a German feminine noun meaning “consecration, any act or procession of making a thing or situation holy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, weihe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Heiligung, Aufwertung einer Person oder Sache durch eine rituelle Zeremonie”.
What does Weihe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineconsecration, any act or procession of making a thing or situation holy
- 2
feminineordination (Catholic and Orthodox sacrament)
noun
- 1
feminineharrier (bird of prey)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Heiligung, Aufwertung einer Person oder Sache durch eine rituelle Zeremonie 2. Erhabenheit, Würde und heiliger Ernst
noun: 1. ein Greifvogel (Gattung Circus)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Weihe
- Weihen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Weihe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Weihe in German?
Weihe appears 2.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).