different between gras vs glass

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gras.

Noun

gras (plural grasse)

1. grass

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• gros

Etymology

From Middle High German gras, from Old High German gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, Proto-Germanic *gras?.

Cognate with German Gras, Dutch gras, English grass, Icelandic gras.

Noun

gras n

1. (Gressoney, Formazza) grass

References

• “gras” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• grasu, greas, greasu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin grassus, from Latin crassus. Compare Romanian gras.

Adjective

gras (feminine grasã, masculine plural grash, feminine plural grasi/grase)

1. fat

Derived terms

• grãsic
• grãsimi

Related terms

• ngrash/ngrãshedz
• dizgrash/dizgrãshedz

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin grassus, from Latin crassus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /???as/

Adjective

gras (feminine grassa, masculine plural grassos, feminine plural grasses)

1. fat
2. fatty

Derived terms

• àcid gras
• grassor

Related terms

• greix

Further reading

• “gras” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gras” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “gras” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gras” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• grass (Luserna, Tredici Comuni)

Etymology

From Middle High German gras, from Old High German gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?. Cognate with German Gras, English grass.

Noun

gras m (plural gréezar)

1. (Sette Comuni) grass

Related terms

• graazan

References

• “gras” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• “gras” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gras, from Old Dutch *gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

gras n (plural grassen, diminutive grasje n)

1. grass

Derived terms

• citroengras
• grasduin
• grashalm
• grasland
• grasmaaier
• grasmat
• graspol
• grassoort
• grasspriet
• grasveld
• grasvlakte
• helmgras
• kunstgras
• zeegras

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gras
• ? Sranan Tongo: grasi

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??a?s/

Noun

gras n (genitive singular gras, plural grøs)

1. grass

Declension

French

Etymology

From Old French gras, from Vulgar Latin *grassus from Latin crassus; cf. also the Old French form cras. Doublet of crasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Adjective

gras (feminine singular grasse, masculine plural gras, feminine plural grasses)

1. fat
2. (typography) bold

Derived terms

Noun

gras m (plural gras)

1. fat (animal tissue or substance resembling it)

Derived terms

• tailler le bout de gras

Further reading

• “gras” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gars

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin grassus, from Latin crassus.

Adjective

gras

1. fat

German

Pronunciation

Verb

gras

1. singular imperative of grasen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of grasen

Gothic

Romanization

gras

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kra?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

gras n (genitive singular grass, nominative plural grös)

1. grass
   • Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)

     Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."

     A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."

2. (in the plural) Icelandic moss
3. (slang) grass, marijuana

Declension

Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Noun

gras n

1. grass

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• gars, gers

Descendants

• Dutch: gras
  • Afrikaans: gras
  • ? Sranan Tongo: grasi
• Limburgish: graas
• West Flemish: ges, gas
• Zealandic: gos

Further reading

• “gras”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “gras”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English græs, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ras/, /?ra?s/, /?r??s/, /?r?s/, /??rs/

Noun

gras (plural grasses or gras)

1. A grass (A plant in the family Poaceae or of similar appearance to those plants)
2. Any plant; especially a herbaceous one; a herb.
3. (medicine) A plant or herb reputed to have medicinal or curative properties.
4. The lamina of a leaf or a leaf in general.
5. Ground planted with grass; grassy land; a pasture or meadow.
6. Fodder; grass used to feed animals (especially livestock).

Alternative forms

• grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese

Related terms

Descendants

• English: grass
  • Tok Pisin: gras, garas
  • ? Fiji Hindi: giraas
• Scots: gress, gres, grais, graiss, grase, gers, girs

References

• “gras, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Etymology 2

Noun

gras

1. Alternative form of grace

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grassus, from Latin crassus.

Adjective

gras m

1. (Jersey) fat

Derived terms

• grâssement

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gras (“grass, herbage; herb (with special powers)”), from Proto-Germanic *gras? (“grass”), from the root of *gr?an? (“to green, grow”) and *gr?niz (“green”), from Pre-Germanic *groh?-ni-s, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reH?- (“to grow (of plants)”).

Noun

gras n (definite singular graset, indefinite plural gras, definite plural grasa or grasene)

1. alternative form of gress

Derived terms

• alfagras

References

• “gras” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gras. Akin to English grass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??s/

Noun

gras n (definite singular graset, indefinite plural gras, definite plural grasa)

1. grass

Derived terms

• alfagras
• grashall
• kunstgras

References

• “gras” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *??reh?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /??r?s/

Noun

gras n (genitive grass, plural gr?s)

1. grass, herbage
   • V?luspá, verse 3, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:

     […] gap var ginnunga, / en gras hvergi.

     […] gap was of void, / but grass nowhere.

2. (especially in the plural) a herb, usually with special powers
   • Stjórn 51, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 175:

     […] fann hann þau grös sem manndragore heita, […]

     […] he found the herb that was called mandrake, […]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Icelandic: gras
• Faroese: gras
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: gress, gras (< *grasja-)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gras
• Old Swedish: græs, gras (hapax legomena)
  • Swedish: gräs (< *grasja-)
• Danish: græs (< *grasja-)
• Elfdalian: gras
• Gutnish: gras

References

• gras in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• gras in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *gras?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow”).

Noun

gras n

1. grass

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gras
  • Dutch Low Saxon: gras
  • German Low German: Gras
    • Plautdietsch: Grauss

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grassus, from Latin crassus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ras/

Adjective

gras m or n (feminine singular gras?, masculine plural gra?i, feminine and neuter plural grase)

1. fat

Declension

Derived terms

• ardei gras
• gr?san
• gr?sime
• gr?su?

Related terms

• gr?sun
• îngr??a

See also

• gros

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• garas

Etymology

English grass

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??as/

Noun

gras

1. grass; vegetation
   • Then God said "The land must give forth all kinds of trees and grass and foodstuffs."
2. fur, hair

Derived terms

English

Alternative forms

• glasse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English glas, from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glas?, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gl?an? (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *??el- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Cognate with West Frisian glês, Dutch glas, Low German Glas, German Glas, Swedish glas, Icelandic gler.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??s/
• Rhymes: -??s
• (US) IPA^(key): /?læs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

glass (countable and uncountable, plural glasses)

1. (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
2. (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).

4. (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.

5. (metonymically) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

6. (uncountable) Glassware.

7. A mirror.
   • 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, Act III, Scene 1, J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, p. 67,^[1]

     […] for what lady can abide to love a spruce silken-face courtier, that stands every morning two or three hours learning how to look by his glass, how to speak by his glass, how to sigh by his glass, how to court his mistress by his glass? I would wish him no other plague, but to have a mistress as brittle as glass.

8. A magnifying glass or telescope.
   • 1912, The Encyclopædia of Sport & Games

     Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns, as is well known, and in the early part of the stalking season, when seen through a glass, might be mistaken for hummels […]

9. (sports) A barrier made of solid, transparent material.
   1. (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.

   2. (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.

10. A barometer.
11. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.

12. (obsolete) An hourglass.

    • Were my Wiues Liuer / Infected (as her life) ?he would not liue / The running of one Gla??e.

13. (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.

Hyponyms

(material):

• lechatelierite
• pyrex, Pyrex

Derived terms

Related terms

• glaze
• glazier
• glazing

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ????? (g???)
• ? Fiji Hindi: gilaas
• ? Indonesian: gelas
• ? Japanese: ??? (gurasu)
• ? Kikuyu: ngirathi
• ? Malay: gelas, ????

Translations

Verb

glass (third-person singular simple present glasses, present participle glassing, simple past and past participle glassed)

1. (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
2. (transitive) To enclose in glass.
   • Template:RQ:Doyle Colours

     I made the Tryal upon a flat piece of purely White Glass'd Earth

3. (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass.. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass).
4. (transitive, Britain, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
   • 1987, John Godber, Bouncers page 19:

     JUDD. Any trouble last night?

     LES. Usual. Couple of punks got glassed.

   • 2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72:

     I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.

   • 2003, Mark Sturdy, Pulp page 139:

     One night he was in this nightclub in Sheffield and he got glassed by this bloke who’d been just let out of prison that day.

5. (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
   • 2012, Halo: First Strike, page 190:

     “The Covenant don’t ‘miss’ anything when they glass a planet,” the Master Chief replied.

6. (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
7. (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
8. (archaic, reflexive) To reflect; to mirror.

   • Happy to glass themselves in so brilliant a mirror.
9. (transitive) To make glassy.
10. (intransitive) To become glassy.
    • 2012, Keith Duggan, Cliffs Of Insanity: A Winter On Ireland's Big Waves (page 32)

      Bourez had timed it perfectly: a wind that was forecast for the morning began to stir just after his arrival and the sea glassed off for a brief period before the waves grew bigger and bigger.

Translations

Anagrams

• slags

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glas (“blue-grey, green”), from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

Adjective

glass

1. green (of nature), verdant

2. grey (of animal), ashen (colour)
3. soft, pale, pasty
4. raw, unfledged, sappy
5. callow (of youth)

Derived terms

• coo glass (“greyhound; tope”)
• glassrey

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Irish glas (“lock, clasp”)

Noun

glass m (genitive singular glish or gleish, plural glish or gleish)

1. lock

Verb

glass (verbal noun glassey)

1. lock up, secure

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

glass

1. Alternative form of glas

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German glas

Pronunciation

Noun

glass n (definite singular glasset, indefinite plural glass, definite plural glassa or glassene)

1. glass (a hard and transparent material)
2. a glass (container for drink made of glass)

   et glass vin - a glass of wine

3. a small container, such as a jar or bottle

Derived terms

See also

• glas (Nynorsk)

References

• “glass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• glace (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French glace, from Old French glace, from Vulgar Latin *glacia, reformation (with change of declension) of Latin glacies, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?las/

Noun

glass c

1. an ice cream

Declension

Derived terms

References

• glass in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• slags