Stank
Appearance
See also: stank
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From stinken.
Noun
[edit]Stank m (strong, genitive Stankes or Stanks, no plural)
- (colloquial) Synonym of Stunk
- (dated) stink, smell
- Synonym: Gestank
- 1942, Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern […] [The World of Yesterday][1]:
- Von außen fuhr mit dem spätherbstlichen Wind durch die zerschlagenen Fenster Ruß und Schlacke der elenden Braunkohle herein, mit der man jetzt die Lokomotiven heizte; sie schwärzte Boden und Wände, aber ihr Stank linderte wenigstens den scharfen Geruch von Jodoform, […] .
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Stank [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]German Low German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German stank, Old Saxon stank, from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz. Cognate with English stench.
Noun
[edit]Stank m (plural has not been set)
Synonyms
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- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German uncountable nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German colloquialisms
- German dated terms
- German terms with quotations
- German Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German lemmas
- German Low German nouns
- German Low German masculine nouns