gazon

See also: gázon

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Old Frankish *wasō (“ground, turf, sod”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, damp, wet”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”), German Low German Waas (“bundle of twigs”), Dutch waas (“haze, mist, film”).

Noun

gazon (plural gazons)

1. One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
   • 1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman‎^[1]:

     —I would throw out the earth upon this hand towards the town for the scarp,—and on that hand towards the campaign for the counterscarp.—Very right, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby:—And when I had sloped them to your mind,——an’ please your Honour, I would face the glacis, as the finest fortifications are done in Flanders, with sods,——and as your Honour knows they should be,—and I would make the walls and parapets with sods too.—The best engineers call them gazons, Trim, said my uncle Toby.—Whether they are gazons or sods, is not much matter, replied Trim; your Honour knows they are ten times beyond a facing either of brick or stone.——I know they are, Trim in some respects,——quoth my uncle Toby, nodding his head;—for a cannon-ball enters into the gazon right onwards, without bringing any rubbish down with it, which might fill the fossé, (as was the case at St. Nicolas’s gate) and facilitate the passage over it.

Anagrams

• Zango, zogan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Frankish *waso (“ground, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô, *waisǭ (“moisture; ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣaːˈzɔn/

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• Hyphenation: ga‧zon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

gazon n (plural gazons, diminutive gazonnetje n)

1. lawn

Related terms

• waas

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Frankish *wasō (“ground, turf”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”), German Low German Waas (“bundle of twigs”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɔ̃/ ~ /ɡɑ.zɔ̃/

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Noun

gazon m (plural gazons)

1. lawn
2. turf; grass

Derived terms

• gazon anglais
• hockey sur gazon
• tondeuse à gazon

Descendants

• Mauritian Creole: gazon
• → Dutch: gazon
• → English: gazon
• → Esperanto: gazono
• → Greek: γκαζόν (gkazón)
• → Russian: газон (gazon)
  • → Armenian: գազոն (gazon)
  • → Georgian: გაზონი (gazoni)
  • → Yakut: газон (gazon)

See also

• herbe
• pelouse

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

gaz +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒzon]
• Hyphenation: ga‧zon

Noun

gazon

1. superessive singular of gaz

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French gazon.

Noun

gazon

1. grass, turf

References

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN
• Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 395

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Frankish *wasōbor.

Old French gason

Middle French gazon

French gazonbor.

Polish gazon

Borrowed from French gazon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.zɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -azɔn
• Syllabification: ga‧zon

Noun

gazon m inan (diminutive gazonik, related adjective gazonowy)

1. lawn

   Hypernym: trawnik

Declension

Declension of gazon

	singular	plural
nominative	gazon	gazony
genitive	gazonu	gazonów
dative	gazonowi	gazonom
accusative	gazon	gazony
instrumental	gazonem	gazonami
locative	gazonie	gazonach
vocative	gazonie	gazony

Further reading

• “gazon”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “gazon”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazon.

Noun

gazon n (uncountable)

1. grass

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gazon	gazonul
genitive-dative	gazon	gazonului
vocative	gazonule

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French gazon.

Noun

gazon

1. grass, turf

References

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN