straw

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
3. (countable) A drinking straw.
4. (countable, uncommon, uncountable) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
6. (countable, uncountable) A straw owner.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Made of straw.
2. (not-comparable) Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
3. (figuratively, not-comparable) Imaginary, but presented as real.

Verb

1. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
2. (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Concepts

paille

chaume

foin

jaune paille

litière

paille de riz

brin de paille

barbe de trois jours

fétu

pailie

Synonymes

hay

grass

thatch

chaff

haulm

husk

stubble

strew

drinking straw

stalk

shuck

bestrew

rice straw

pale yellow

cane

wheat

splinter

sprinkle

stem

stipe

straw hat

tube

untamed

weed

whistle

wild

worthless

yellowish

straw-colored

dry grass

made of straw

thatching grass

pennywhistle

bespangle

tallgrass

chips

culm

dot

dry

dust

fife

fodder

glume

herbs

horn

mattress

pipe

reed

scape

siren

Traductions

paja

paglia

Stroh

palha

Strohhalm

stro

palla

saman

άχυρο

cannuccia

ka

قش

pajita

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/stɹɔː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: straw

Hérité de ancien anglais: strēaw

Appartenant à néerlandais: stro

Appartenant à wallon: strin

Appartenant à allemand: Stroh

Appartenant à norvégien: -

Appartenant à suédois: strå

Appartenant à albanais: shtrohë

In summary

From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Low German Stroh (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).

Phrases

Pitch the straw through the door of the stable .

Ploour de la paille par la porte de l'écurie.