Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 55645 6703431 2009-06-01T15:35:04Z 141.228.106.135 /* Etymology */ (Dutch) stroo -> stro {{wikipedia}} ==English== ===Etymology=== Old English ''[[streaw|strēaw]]'', from Germanic ''*strawam'' ‘that which is strewn’. Cognate with Dutch ''[[stro]]'', German ''[[Stroh]]'', Swedish ''[[strå]]''. ===Pronunciation=== * {{IPA|/strɔ:/}} * {{audio|en-us-straw.ogg|Audio (US)}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun|s|-}} # {{countable}} A dried [[stalk]] of a [[cereal]] plant. # {{uncountable}} Such dried stalks considered collectively. # {{countable}} A [[drinking straw]]. # {{colour}} a pale, [[yellow]]ish [[beige]] colour, like that of a dried straw. #: {{colour panel|F2D594}} ====Translations==== {{trans-top|a dried stalk of a cereal plant}} * [[Crimean Tatar]]: [[toban]] * Czech: {{t-|cs|sláma|f}} * Estonian: {{t|et|õlekõrs}} * Finnish: {{t+|fi|olki}} * French: {{t+|fr|paille|f}} * German: {{t-|de|Halm|m}}, {{t+|de|Strohhalm|m}} * Italian: [[festuca]] {{f}} {{trans-mid}} * Japanese: [[藁]] ([[わら]], wara) * Korean: [[짚]] (jip) * Kurdish: {{t-|ku|کا|sc=ku-Arab}} * Portuguese: {{t|pt|palha|f}} * Russian: {{t+|ru|соломина|f|tr=solómina|sc=Cyrl}} * Spanish: {{t+|es|paja|f}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|dried stalks considered collectively}} * Albanian: [[kashtë]] {{f}} * Bosnian: {{t-|bs|slama|f}} * [[Catalan]]: [[palla]] {{f}} * Croatian: {{t-|hr|slama|f}} * Danish: {{t-|da|halm}} * Dutch: {{t+|nl|stro|n}} * Esperanto: [[pajlo]] * Estonian: {{t|et|põhk}} * Finnish: {{t+|fi|olki}} * French: {{t+|fr|paille|f}} * German: {{t+|de|Stroh|n}} * Hungarian: {{t-|hu|szalma}} {{trans-mid}} * Italian: {{t+|it|paglia|f}} * Japanese: [[藁]] ([[わら]], wara) * Korean: [[짚]] (jip) * Polish: {{t-|pl|słoma|f}} * Romanian: {{t-|ro|paie|f}} * Russian: {{t+|ru|солома|f|tr=solóma|sc=Cyrl}} * [[Sardinian]]: [[palla]] {{f}} * Serbian: *: Cyrillic: {{t-|sr|слама|f|sc=Cyrl}} *: Roman: [[slama#Serbian|slama]] {{f}} * Slovak: {{t-|sk|slama|f}} * Spanish: {{t+|es|paja|f}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-see|drinking straw}} {{trans-top|colour}} * Finnish: {{t-|fi|oljenkeltainen}} * German: [[strohfarben]], [[strohgelb]] {{trans-mid}} * Japanese: [[藁色]], [[わら色]] (わらいろ, warairo) {{trans-bottom}} ===Adjective=== {{en-adj|-}} # Made of straw. #: ''straw hat'' # {{colour}} Of a pale, [[yellow]]ish [[beige]] colour, like that of a dried straw. ====Derived terms==== {{top3}} * [[cheese straw]] * [[draw the short straw]] * [[grasp at straws]] * [[jackstraw]] * the [[last straw]] * the [[final straw]] * [[make bricks without straw]] * [[man of straw]] {{mid3}} * [[pine straw]] * [[silly straw]] * [[straw boss]] * [[straw buyer]] * [[straw hat]] * a [[straw in the wind]] * [[straw man]] * [[straw mushroom]] * [[straw poll]] {{mid3}} * [[the straw that broke the camel's back]] * [[straw vote]] * [[straw wine]] * [[strawboard]] * [[straw-coloured]] * [[strawflower]] * [[strawworm]] * [[windlestraw]] {{bottom}} ====Related terms==== {{top3}} * [[balibuntal]] * [[corn dolly]] * [[etiolated]] * [[fescue]] {{mid3}} * [[huarache]] * [[paillasse]] * [[paillette]] * [[pallet]] {{mid3}} * [[sacaton]] * [[stipule]] * [[stubble]] * [[zori]] {{bottom}} ====Translations==== {{trans-top|made of straw}} * Finnish: [[olki]]-, [[olki|oljesta]] [[tehty]] {{trans-mid}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|of a pale, yellowish beige colour}} * Finnish: {{t-|fi|oljenkeltainen}} {{trans-mid}} {{trans-bottom}} ===See also=== {{top3}} * [[buntal]] * [[leghorn]] {{mid3}} * [[parabuntal]] * [[rick]] {{mid3}} * [[skep]] * [[Appendix:Colours]] {{bottom}} [[Category:Browns]] [[Category:Colors]] [[ang:straw]] [[el:straw]] [[fa:straw]] [[fr:straw]] [[io:straw]] [[id:straw]] [[it:straw]] [[kk:straw]] [[lo:straw]] [[hu:straw]] [[oc:straw]] [[pl:straw]] [[ru:straw]] [[simple:straw]] [[fi:straw]] [[ta:straw]] [[te:straw]] [[th:straw]] [[vi:straw]] [[zh:straw]]