grass

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Etymology

Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasan (compare West Frisian gers, Dutch gras, German Gras, Danish græs, Swedish gräs), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁- 'to grow'. Related to grow and green.

Pronunciation

• (RP, Australia) enPR: gräs, IPA: /ɡɹɑːs/, SAMPA: /grA:s/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːs
• (northern England, US) enPR: grăs, IPA: /ɡɹæs/, SAMPA: /gr{s/

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• Rhymes: -æs

Noun

Grass.

grass (countable and uncountable; plural grasses)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem, wrap around it for a distance, and leave, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. (uncountable) A lawn.
3. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
4. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
5. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
6. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

Synonyms

• (Poaceae): Gramineae (alternative name)

Derived terms

grasshopper grass widow grassy

lemongrass ryegrass supergrass

Translations

ground cover plant

Aguaruna: dupa Albanian: bar (sq) m. Arabic: حَشيش (ar) (ħashísh) m., عشب (ar) (ʕushb) m. Egyptian Arabic: حشيش (ḥashish) Armenian: խոտ (xot) Aromanian: iarbã Bosnian: trava (bs) f. Breton: geot c., geotenn f. sg. Burmese: မြက် (my) (myet) Catalan: herba f. Chamicuro: c̈homajshi Chinese: 草 (căo), 青草 (qīng cǎo) Croatian: trava (hr) f. Czech: tráva (cs) f. Danish: græs (da) Dutch: gras (nl) n. Esperanto: herbo (eo) Faroese: gras (fo) n. Finnish: heinä (fi), ruoho (fi) French: herbe (fr) f. Friulian: jerbe Georgian: ბალახი (ka) (balaxi) German: Gras (de) n. Greenlandic: ivik (kl) Guaraní: ka'a Hebrew: דשא (déshe) m., עשב (he) (esev) Hiligaynon: hilamon Hindi: घास (hi) f. (ghās) Hungarian: fű (hu) Icelandic: gras (is) n. Ido: gazono (io) Indonesian: rumput (id) Interlingua: herba Irish: féar (ga) Italian: erba (it) f., graminacea (it) f. Japanese: 草 (くさ, kusa) Kazakh: шөп (kk) (şöp) Korean: 풀 (pul) Kurdish: گیا Lakota: peji Lao: ຫຍ້າ (lo) (ñaa) Latin: herba (la) Latvian: zāle (lv) f.

Lithuanian: žolė (lt) f. Luhya: bunyasi Malay: rumput (ms) Manx: faiyr (gv) Navajo: tłʼoh Norwegian: gress (no) n. Nottoway-Meherrin: oherag Occitan: èrba (oc) f. Okinawan: くさ (kusa) Old Church Slavonic: трава (trava) f. Old Irish: fér Persian: سبزه (fa) (sabze), علف (fa) (alaf) Polish: trawa (pl) f. Portuguese: erva (pt) f., grama (pt) f., relva (pt) f. Romanian: iarbă (ro) f. Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran, Puter) erva (rm) f., (Sutsilvan) earva (rm) f., (Vallader) erba (rm) f., (Sursilvan) jarva (rm) f. Russian: трава (ru) (travá) f. Sardinian: erba f. Scottish Gaelic: feur (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: трава f. Roman: trava f. Sicilian: erva (scn) Slovak: tráva (sk) f. Slovene: trava (sl) f. Spanish: pasto (es) m., hierba (es) f., grama (es) f. Swahili: nyasi (sw) Swedish: gräs (sv) n. Tagalog: damo (tl) Tajik: сабза (tg) (sabza) Taos: łíne Telugu: గడ్డి (te) (gaDDi) Tok Pisin: gras Tupinambá: ka'a Turkish: ot [-tu], çimen (tr), çim (tr) Urdu: گهاس (ur) f. (ghās) Vietnamese: cỏ (vi) Volapük: yeb Welsh: glaswellt (cy) m. West Frisian: gers (fy) c.  !Xóõ: ǁkxʻâã

lawn

Arabic: حَشيش (ar) m. Breton: geot c. geotenn f. sg., leton c. letonenn f. sg., glazenn f. Croatian: travnjak (hr) m. Czech: trávník (cs) m. Danish: græsplæne (da), (qoloquial) plæne (da) Finnish: nurmi (fi), nurmikko (fi), ruoho (fi) French: pelouse (fr) f., gazon (fr) m. German: Rasen (de) m. Guaraní: ka'a Hiligaynon: hilamnan Interlingua: herba Italian: prato (it) m. Japanese: 芝生 (しばふ, shibafu) Latgalian: zuole f.

Latvian: zāle (lv) f. Lithuanian: žolė (lt) f., veja (lt) f. Navajo: tłʼoh Polish: trawnik (pl) m. Portuguese: erva f., gramado m., relvado m. Russian: газон m. (gazón) Slovene: trata (sl) f. Spanish: hierba (es) f., césped (es) m. Swahili: nyasi (sw) Swedish: gräs (sv) Tagalog: damuhan (tl) Tok Pisin: gras Tupinambá: ka'a Welsh: lawnt (cy) f.

marijuana

Breton: struj m. Croatian: trava (hr) f. Czech: tráva (cs) f. Danish: græs (da) Dutch: wiet (nl) m. Finnish: ruoho (fi), pilvi (fi) French: herbe (fr) f., beuh (fr) f. German: Gras (de) n. Interlingua: herba Irish: féar (ga) Italian: erba (it) f. Lakota: peji

Latvian: zāle (lv) f. Lithuanian: žolė (lt) f. Polish: trawka f. Portuguese: erva (pt) f., mato (pt) m. Russian: травка f. (trávka) Slovene: trava (sl) f. Spanish: hierba (es) f., mota (es) f. Swahili: unyasi (sw) Swedish: gräs (sv) Tagalog: damo (tl) Turkish: ot (tr)

informer

Danish: stikker (da) Finnish: vasikka (fi) French: balance (fr) f. Interlingua: delator, informante Italian: spia (it) f., delatore (it) m., pentito (it) m., traditore (it) m.

Polish: kapuś (pl) m. Portuguese: dedo-duro (pt) m., alcagüete (pt) m. Russian: стукач m. (stukač) Swahili: nyasi (sw)

See also

• Poaceae on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Poaceae

Verb

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’, Norton 2005, p.709:

     He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.

2. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

Translations

to inform on

Finnish: vasikoida (fi) French: moucharder (fr) Interlingua: facer le delation

Portuguese: delatar, dedurar, alcagüetar Swahili: nyasi (sw)

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin crassus. Compare French graisse.

Noun

grass m.

1. fat