flask

See also: fläsk

English

A French stoneware pilgrim flask.

Three Erlenmeyer flasks.

Hip flask.

Etymology

From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”).

Sense 2 from Italian fiasco and sense 3 from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fläsk, IPA^(key): /ˈflɑːsk/
• (General American) enPR: flăsk, IPA^(key): /ˈflæsk/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

flask (plural flasks)

1. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
2. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
3. (sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
4. (engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
5. A bed in a gun carriage.

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Derived terms

• Bologna flask
• Büchner flask
• conical flask
• Dewar flask
• Erlenmeyer flask
• Florence flask
• hip-flask
• hipflask
• hip flask
• hip-pocket flask
• Kitasato flask
• Kitassato flask
• Kitazato flask
• Kjeldahl flask
• pocket-flask
• powder flask
• round-bottomed flask
• Schlenk flask
• snap flask
• vacuum flask
• volumetric flask

 

Translations

container for a small amount of beverage

• Arabic: دَوْرَق‎ m (dawraq)
• Belarusian: пля́шка f (pljáška), пля́ха f (pljáxa)
• Bulgarian: пло́ска бути́лка f (plóska butílka), мане́рка f (manérka), ма́терка f (máterka) (dialectal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水壺／水壶 (zh) (shuǐhú) (for water), 長頸瓶／长颈瓶 (zh) (chángjǐngpíng)

• Coptic: ⲁⲙⲡⲟⲩⲗⲉ (ampoule)
• Czech: čutora (cs) f
• Danish: flaske (da) c, feltflaske c (for military porposes), termokande c (for carrying hot beverages),
• Esperanto: flakono, karafo
• Finnish: taskumatti (fi)
• French: flacon (fr) m, flasque (fr) f
• Georgian: მათარა (matara)
• German: Flasche (de) f
• Greek: φλασκί (el) n (flaskí), παγούρι (el) n (pagoúri)

  Ancient: λήκυθος f (lḗkuthos)

• Hungarian: flaska (hu), kulacs (hu), italosüveg, csutora (hu)
• Ido: flakono (io)
• Italian: fiaschetta (it) f, boccetta (it) f
• Japanese: 水筒 (ja) (すいとう, suitō) (for water), フラスコ (ja) (furasuko)
• Korean: 플라스크 (ko) (peullaseukeu)
• Latin: laguncula f
• Macedonian: матарка f (matarka), баклица f (baklica)
• Maori: takawai, waipāta (for gunpowder)
• Middle English: fiole
• Persian: فلاسک‎ (fa) (flâsk)
• Plautdietsch: Buddel (nds) f
• Polish: manierka (pl) f
• Portuguese: frasco (pt) m
• Romanian: flacon (ro)
• Russian: фля́жка (ru) f (fljážka), фля́га (ru) f (fljága)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пљоска f, плоска f

  Roman: pljoska (sh) f, ploska (sh) f

• Slovak: čutora f
• Spanish: petaca (es) f, licorera disfrazada f, frasquera
• Swahili: chupa (sw)
• Swedish: plunta (sv) c, flaska (sv) c
• Tagalog: redoma
• Ukrainian: пля́шка f (pljáška), фля́жка f (fljážka), фля́га f (fljáha)
• Walloon: flechtåd (wa) m

container to carry a small amount of alcoholic beverage; pocket flask

• Arabic: زَمْزَمِيَّة‎ f (zamzamiyya), قَارُورَة‎ (ar) f (qārūra)
• Czech: plochá láhev f, placatka (cs) f
• Danish: lommelærke c
• Esperanto: flakono, fiolo
• Finnish: taskumatti (fi)
• French: flasque (fr) f
• German: Flachmann (de) m, Taschenflasche f
• Hebrew: בקבוקון כיס שטוח‎, בקבוק אלכוהול אישי לכיס‎
• Polish: piersiówka (pl) f
• Romanian: flacon (ro) n, sticluță (ro) f
• Slovak: ploskačka f
• Spanish: petaca (es) f
• Swedish: fickflaska c, fickplunta (sv) c, fältflaska (sv) c

laboratory glassware

• Belarusian: ко́лба f (kólba), флако́н m (flakón)
• Bulgarian: ко́лба (bg) f (kólba)
• Catalan: matràs m
• Czech: baňka (cs) f
• Danish: kolbe c, kolbe c
• Esperanto: flakono
• Finnish: laboratoriopullo
• French: fiole (fr) f
• Georgian: კოლბა (ḳolba)
• German: Kolben (de) m, Flakon (de) m or n
• Greek: φλασκί (el) n (flaskí)
• Hungarian: lombik (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kolbe m

  Nynorsk: kolbe m

• Polish: kolba (pl) f
• Portuguese: frasco (pt) m
• Russian: ко́лба (ru) f (kólba), флако́н (ru) m (flakón)
• Slovak: baňka (sk) f
• Spanish: matraz m
• Swedish: kolv (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ко́лба (uk) f (kólba), флако́н m (flakón)

container for holding a (sand) casting mold

• German: Formkasten m

bed in a gun carriage

• Danish: krudthorn n

Verb

flask (third-person singular simple present flasks, present participle flasking, simple past and past participle flasked)

1. (dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.

Anagrams

• falks, flaks

Danish

Verb

flask

1. imperative of flaske

Dutch

Etymology

From French flasque (“flask”). Doublet with (native) fles (“bottle”), (through French) flacon (“flagon”) and (through Italian) fiasco (“fiasco”).

Noun

flask f (plural flasken, diminutive flaskje n)

1. flask

Middle English

Alternative forms

• flaske

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman flascon, from Frankish *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Reinforced by existing Old English flasce, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflask(ə)/

Noun

flask (plural flaskes) (rare)

1. A small barrel for beer storage.
2. A container for the storage of garments.

Related terms

• flasket

Descendants

• English: flask
• Scots: flask, flas

References

• “flask, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• flēsk

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *flaiski. Cognates include Old English flǣsċ and Old Saxon flēsk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaːsk/

Noun

flāsk n

1. flesh

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Mooring: flååsch

• Saterland Frisian: Flaask
• West Frisian: fleis

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28