Masculine
Meaning
- (masculine, strong) beam, crossbeam
- (masculine, strong) bar (long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart; informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone)
- (masculine, strong) beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)
- (masculine, strong) fess
Concepts
Synonyms
Dachsparren
Fensterkreuz
Hauptgesims
Türkreuz
Hauptbalken
Hauptriemen
Dachkammer
Unterzug
Tragbalken
Stahlbalken
Zwischenträger
Corpus callosum
Holzstamm
Unterdach
Chinneker
Sebelbeis
Meimelker
Schontebeis
Schont
Bräse
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Translations
Frequency
Dialects
Aargau
treem
Basel-Landschaft
balgge
Basel-Landschaft
dräämel
Basel-Landschaft
dreem
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbalkn̩/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German balke, from Old High German balko, balcho, from Proto-West Germanic *balkō, from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Compare English balk.
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