grass

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

hierba

🌿

pasto

yerba

césped

zacate

grama

forraje

mariguana

cáñamo

maría

marihuana

delatar

maleza

yerba forrajera

arbusto

mota

cannabis

marijuana

traicionar

vegetal

🌱

verdura

verduras

gramíneas

herbaje

motivosa

planta herbácea

rosemaria

soplón

Mary Jane

sakate

hierva

grifa

yerba de gallina

yerba maravedi

manigua

yerba de guinea

jabón del Asiento

yuyo

planta silvestre

paja de la puna

paslo

hierbo

hierba forrajera

paja silvestre

hierba alimenticia

hierba comestible

alfalfa

hoja de nabo

árbol

🌳

cereal

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

herbe

Gras

erba

gras

erva

🌿

grama

herba

🌿

ot

γρασίδι

Rasen

Marihuana

Kraut

🌿

pelouse

gramen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹɑːs/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: gras

Heredado de inglés antiguo: græs

Cognado con escocés: girs

Cognado con frisón septentrional: gäärs

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Gäärs

Cognado con frisón occidental: gers

Cognado con bajo alemán: Gras

Cognado con neerlandés: gras

Cognado con alemán: Gras

Cognado con danés: græs

Cognado con sueco: gräs

Cognado con noruego bokmal: gress

Cognado con feroés: -

Cognado con islandés: -

Cognado con noruego nynorsk: gras

Cognado con latín: herba

Cognado con albanés: 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.