Feminine
Binse
Meaning
- (feminine) bent, rush (grass)
- (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) ellipsis of Binsenweisheit
- (colloquial, feminine, regional) state of failure, wreckedness, almost exclusively in the following construction
Synonyms
Gehaltlosigkeit
Grasnarbe
Unwichtigkeit
Sode
Translations
junco
jonc
rus
junco
giunco
βούρλο
JuncusPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɪnzə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German bineʒ, from Old High German binuz, from Proto-West Germanic *binut. The idiom “in die Binsen gehen” is explained from the idea of hunted game being lost when the deer has alighted in the plants. It occurs also with Wicken.
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