Masculine

Balken

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) beam, crossbeam
  2. (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)
  3. (masculine, strong) beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)
  4. (masculine, strong) fess

Synonyms

Dachsparren

Fensterkreuz

Hauptgesims

Türkreuz

Hauptbalken

Hauptriemen

Dachkammer

Unterzug

Tragbalken

Stahlbalken

Zwischenträger

Corpus callosum

Holzstamm

Unterdach

Chinneker

Sebelbeis

Meimelker

Schontebeis

Schont

Bräse

Pfeiler für Webstuhl

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Aargau

Aargau

treem

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

balgge

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

dräämel

Basel-Landschaft

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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