grass

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. (uncountable) A lawn.
4. (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
5. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
6. (British, countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
7. (uncountable) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
8. (slang, uncountable) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
9. (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
10. (countable, figuratively, obsolete) That which is transitory.
11. (countable) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
12. (countable) The surface of a mine.

Verb

1. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
3. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
4. (transitive) To feed with grass.
5. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

Konzepte

Gras

Rasen

Marihuana

Kraut

🌿

Weide

Getreide

Gestrüpp

Unkraut

Futterpflanze

Zerealie

Kräuter

indischer Hanf

petzen

Pflanze

🌱

Pinkel

Rasen ’’m’

Schilf

Strauch

Stroh

Süßgräser

Grasfutter

Grunfutter

Wiesengras

Wildpflanze

Sode

Wildkraut

Ganja

Süssgräser

Graspflanzen

Baum

🌳

Insiderinformationen

Binse

Cannabis

Dope

Gemüse

Gramineen

Gräser

Grasnarbe

Hanf

Haschisch

Heu

kiffen

Synonyme

weed

herb

🌿

lawn

pasture

straw

marijuana

weeds

turf

fodder

herbs

hay

pot

Mary Jane

plant

🌱

thatch

flower

🌸

supergrass

snitch

ganja

green goddess

herbage

reeds

sward

betray

forage

grass over

vegetables

gage

locoweed

sess

skunk

🦨

brush

informer

hemp

dope

leaves

🍃

tell on

denounce

sod

stag

🦌

cereal

shit

💩

smoke

stool pigeon

vegetable

rat

🐀

blade of grass

shop

give away

reed

Übersetzungen

herbe

hierba

🌿

erba

gras

erva

🌿

pasto

yerba

grama

ot

herba

🌿

césped

γρασίδι

pelouse

relva

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɡɹɑːs/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: gras

Geerbt von Altenglisch: græs

Verwandt mit Schottisch: girs

Verwandt mit Nordfriesisch: gäärs

Verwandt mit Saterfriesisch: Gäärs

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch: gers

Verwandt mit Niederdeutsch: Gras

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: gras

Verwandt mit Deutsch: Gras

Verwandt mit Dänisch: græs

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: gräs

Verwandt mit Norwegisch (Bokmål): gress

Verwandt mit Färöisch: -

Verwandt mit Isländisch: -

Verwandt mit Norwegisch (Nynorsk): gras

Verwandt mit Latein: herba

Verwandt mit Albanisch: grath

In summary

From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.