gras

From Dutch gras.

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gras (plural grasse)

1. grass

• gros

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

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

gras n

1. (Gressoney, Formazza) grass

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• grasu, greas, greasu

Inherited from Late Latin grassus. Compare Romanian gras.

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

1. fat

• grãsic
• grãsimi

• ngrash / ngrãshedz
• dizgrash / dizgrãshedz

Inherited from Late Latin grassus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾas]

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

1. fat
2. fatty

• greix

• “gras” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gras”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

• grass (Luserna, Tredici Comuni)

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

gras m (plural gréezar)

1. (Sette Comuni) grass

   an hèttalle gras ― a blade of grass

• graazan

• “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
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Middle Dutch gras, from Old Dutch *gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). Doublet of gors.

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɑs/

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• Rhymes: -ɑs

gras n (plural grassen, diminutive grasje n)

1. grass

   Het gras is groen na de regen.

   The grass is green after the rain.

   Ik hou ervan om op het gras te liggen en naar de wolken te kijken.

   I love to lie on the grass and look at the clouds.

   Ze speelden voetbal op het gras.

   They played soccer on the grass.

• gors

• Afrikaans: gras
• Berbice Creole Dutch: grasa
• Jersey Dutch: x'rās, grās
• Negerhollands: graas, gras
• → Sranan Tongo: grasi
  • → Saramaccan: gaási

From Old Norse gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛaːs/

gras n (genitive singular gras, plural grøs)

1. grass

Inherited from Old French gras, from Late Latin grassus. Doublet of crasse.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa/ ~ /ɡʁɑ/

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

1. fat
2. (typography) bold

gras m (plural gras)

1. fat (animal tissue or substance resembling it)

• tailler le bout de gras

• “gras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gars

Inherited from Late Latin grassus.

gras

1. fat

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gras

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

gras

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃

From Old Norse gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

• IPA^(key): /kraːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

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

• “gras” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From Old Dutch *gras, from Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

gras n

1. grass

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• gars, gers

• Dutch: gras
  • Afrikaans: gras
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: grasa
  • Jersey Dutch: x'rās, grās
  • Negerhollands: graas, gras
  • → Sranan Tongo: grasi
    • → Saramaccan: gaási
• Limburgish: graas
• West Flemish: ges, gas
• Zealandic: gos

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡras/, /ɡraːs/, /ɡrɛːs/, /ɡrɛs/, /ɡɛrs/

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).

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

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

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

gras

1. Alternative form of grace

From Old French gras, from Late Latin crassus.

gras m

1. (Jersey) fat
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 532:

     Caud Mai, gras chimequière, fred Mai, granges pllaïnes.

     A warm May, a fat churchyard, a cold May, full granaries.

• grâssement

From Old Norse gras (“grass, herbage; herb (with special powers)”), from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from the root of *grōaną (“to green, grow”) and *grōniz (“green”), from Pre-Germanic *groh₁-ni-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- (“to grow (of plants)”).

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

1. alternative form of gress

• alfagras

• “gras” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse gras. Akin to English grass.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɑːs/

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

1. grass

• alfagras
• grashall
• kunstgras

• “gras” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

grās

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of grīsan

From Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑs/

gras n (genitive grass, plural grǫs)

1. grass, herbage
   • Vǫluspá, 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, […]

• 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

• 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.

From Proto-West Germanic *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).

gras n

1. grass

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

Inherited from Late Latin crassus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡras/

gras (feminine grasa, masculine plural grës, feminine plural grasi)

1. fat

Inherited from Late Latin grassus. Doublet of cras.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡras/

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gras m or n (feminine singular grasă, masculine plural grași, feminine and neuter plural grase)

1. fat

• ardei gras
• grăsan
• grăsime
• grăsuț

• grăsun
• îngrășa

• gros

• garas

From English grass.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾas/

gras

1. grass; vegetation
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:11:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Graun i mas kamapim ol kain kain diwai na gras na kaikai samting.”

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

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace, from Latin grātia.

• Rhymes: -aːs

gras m or f (plural grasau or grasusau)

1. grace, favour
2. forgiveness, pardon
3. beauty, charm
4. (countable) grace (short prayer)

• anras (“blight, evil”)
• gras anorchfygol (“irresistible grace”)
• gras Duw (“hedgehyssop”)
• grasus (“gracious”)
• moddion gras (“means of grace”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gras”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies