German

Noun

Gras n ‎(genitive Grases, plural Gräser)

1. grass (plant)
2. (informal) weed, marijuana

Declension

Derived terms

• Zitronengras n
• grasgrün

Luxembourgish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

Gras n ‎(plural Grieser)

1. grass
2. (informal) marijuana

Afrikaans

Noun

gras ‎(plural grasse)

1. grass

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• grasu, greas, greasu

Etymology

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

Adjective

gras m (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.

Adjective

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

1. fat
2. fatty

Related terms

• greix

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‎(“to grow”). Compare Low German and German Gras, English grass, West Frisian gers, Danish græs.

Noun

gras n ‎(plural grassen, diminutive grasje n)

1. grass.

Derived terms

• citroengras n
• grasspriet m

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- ‎(“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛaːs/

Noun

gras n (genitive singular gras, plural grøs)

1. grass

Declension

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grassus from Latin crassus. Doublet of crasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa/
• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ/

Adjective

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

1. fat
2. (typography) bold

Derived terms

• mardi gras

Noun

gras m ‎(plural gras)

1. fat (animal tissue or substance resembling it)

Anagrams

• gars

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin grassus, from Latin crassus.

Adjective

gras

1. fat

German

Verb

gras

1. Imperative singular of grasen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of grasen.

Gothic

Romanization

gras

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gras, from Proto-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- ‎(“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kraːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

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

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grassus, from Latin crassus.

Adjective

gras m

1. (Jersey) fat

Derived terms

• grâssement

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grasą ‎(“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- ‎(“to grow”). Cognate with Old English græs, gærs, Old Frisian gres, gers, Old Saxon gras, Old High German gras, Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 ‎(gras).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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, […]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

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-Germanic *grasą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- ‎(“to grow”). Compare Old English græs, Old Frisian gres, Old High German gras, Old Norse gras, Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐍃 ‎(gras).

Noun

gras n

1. grass

Descendants

• Middle Low German: gras
  • Low German: Gras, gras

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grassus, from Latin crassus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /gras/

Adjective

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

1. fat

Declension

Derived terms

• ardei gras
• grăsan
• grăsime
• grăsuț

Related terms

• grăsun
• îngrășa

See also

• gros

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English grass

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾas/

Noun

gras

1. grass; vegetation
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:11 (translation here):

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

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

Derived terms