strå
Appearance
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse strá (“straw”). Compare Old English strēaw.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]strå n (singular definite strået, plural indefinite strå)
Declension
[edit]Declension of strå
References
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse strá. Akin to English straw.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]strå n (definite singular strået, indefinite plural strå, definite plural stråa)
- a straw, (a stalk of a cereal plant)
References
[edit]- “strå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish stra, from Old Norse strá, from Proto-Germanic *strawą. Related to English straw.
Noun
[edit]strå n
- a stalk of a grass or sedge (whether growing or dried)
- a straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
- Synonym: halmstrå
- a blade of grass (idiomatically if not technically – usually as grässtrå)
- På en gräsmatta finns det många grässtrån
- On a lawn, there are many blades of grass
- a straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
- a hair
- ett hårstrå
- a hair
- ett skäggstrå
- a hair from a beard
- några gråa strån
- a few gray hairs
- Synonym: hårstrå
Usage notes
[edit]Straw in the collective sense is halm.
Declension
[edit]Declension of strå
Declension of strå
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- strå in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- strå in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- strå in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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