Straße

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (feminine) street; road (a way wide enough to be passable for vehicles, generally paved, in or outside a settlement)
2. (feminine) carriageway (the part of a road or street used by vehicles, excluding the pavement, etc.)
3. (feminine,figuratively) public, any area accessible to anyone
4. (feminine,figuratively) general public, using the locale to describe people not part of a specific group
5. (feminine) the streets, areas or groups of people of no income or criminal affiliation, or the leading of a life associated with these
6. (feminine) strait (channel of water)
7. (feminine) straight

Geslag

♀️ Vroulik

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈʃtʁaːsə/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle High German strāze, from Old High German strāza, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin (via) strata.
The sense “strait” is a calque of Middle Low German strâte, itself a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (“narrow”), from unrelated Latin strictus.