straw

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

paglia

cannuccia

festuca

fuscello

pagliuzza

canna

loppa

pula

stelo

stoppia

legna piccola

paglia di montagna

paglia selvatica

fieno

foraggio

asticella

filo di paglia

lolla

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

paille

paja

Stroh

palha

Strohhalm

stro

palla

saman

άχυρο

pajita

قش

ka

chaume

Pronunciato come (IPA)

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Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: straw

Ereditato da inglese antico: strēaw

Affine olandese: stro

Affine vallone: strin

Affine tedesco: Stroh

Affine norvegese: -

Affine svedese: strå

Affine albanese: 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”).

Frasi

Pitch the straw through the door of the stable .

Lancia la cannuccia attraverso la porta della stalla.