glas

From Dutch glas, from Middle Dutch glas, from Old Dutch glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).

• IPA^(key): /χlas/

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glas (plural glase, diminutive glasie)

1. (uncountable) glass (material)
2. (countable) glass (vessel)

• glashuis

From Middle Breton glas, Proto-Brythonic *glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑːs/

glas

1. blue
2. green

From Middle High German glas, from Old High German glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, Proto-Germanic *glasą (“glass”). Cognate with German Glas, English glass.

glas n (plural gléezar, diminutive glèzale) (Luserna, Sette Comuni)

1. glass (material)

   de gléezar 'me béestre ― window panes

2. glass (drinking vessel)

   Synonym: tatza

   an glas bàin ― a glass of wine

• gléezaran

• “glas” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
• “glas” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Middle Cornish glas, from Proto-Brythonic *glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡlaːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡlæːz]

glas

1. blue

   Synonym: blou

2. green (of living things)
3. grey

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *glacium/-a, from Latin glaciēs.

glas m

1. ice
   • el glas se scomiença desfúar

     the ice begins to melt

• glazait

Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000, page 275

From Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

glas n (singular definite glasset, plural indefinite glas)

1. (uncountable) glass (substance)
2. glass (drinking vessel)
3. (nautical) bells, a mark given by the bells of a ship every half hour to mark the passing of time during a four-hour watch. There were eight bells per watch and then the counting started from the beginning.

• forstørrelsesglas

• → Icelandic: glas

• “glas” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “glas” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Middle Dutch glas, from Old Dutch glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Compare Low German Glas, German Glas, English glass, West Frisian glês, Icelandic gler.

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑs/

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• Hyphenation: glas
• Rhymes: -ɑs

glas n (plural glazen, diminutive glaasje n)

1. (uncountable) glass (material)

   Vensters zijn gemaakt van glas. ― Windows are made of glass.

2. (countable) glass (vessel)

   Staan er al glazen op tafel? ― Are there glasses on the table yet?

3. (countable) glass (quantity)

   Drink even een glas water. ― Drink a glass of water.

• Afrikaans: glas
• Berbice Creole Dutch: glasi
• Negerhollands: glas
• → Caribbean Hindustani: gilás
• → Caribbean Javanese: gelas
• → Indonesian: gelas
• → Japanese: ガラス (garasu)
• → Papiamentu: glas
• → Sranan Tongo: grasi
  • → Kari'na: kalasi (or directly)

• “glas” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• slag

From Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

• IPA^(key): /klɛaːs/

glas n (genitive singular glas, plural gløs)

1. glass (material)
2. glass (beverage container)
3. glass (quantity)
4. little bottle

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *classum, from Latin classicum (“trumpet signal”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡla/, /ɡlɑ/
• (France) IPA^(key): /ɡla/, /ɡlɑ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ

glas m (plural glas)

1. (funeral) bell
2. (figuratively) death knell (omen)

• sonner le glas

• “glas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/

glas

1. mirror

From French glace (“ice”).

glas

1. ice

• glase

From Old Norse glas(keri), itself borrowed from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

• IPA^(key): /klaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

glas n (genitive singular glass, nominative plural glös)

1. glass (beverage container)

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠɑsˠ/[1]
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ɡlɑsˠ/
• (Connemara) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠasˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡlˠasˠ/[2]

From Old Irish glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos.

glas (genitive singular masculine glais, genitive singular feminine glaise, plural glasa, comparative glaise)

1. green (of grass, trees, etc.; environmentally friendly)

   Is glas na cnoic i bhfad uainn (proverb) ― Far-off hills are green.

2. raw, inexperienced
3. pale, having a sickly color
4. grey (of animals etc.)
5. raw (of weather)

glas m (genitive singular glais)

1. green (colour)

glas (present analytic glasann, future analytic glasfaidh, verbal noun glasadh, past participle glasta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of glasaigh (“become green”)

From Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”).

glas m (genitive singular glais, nominative plural glais)

1. lock

   Is fearr glas ná amhras. (proverb)

   Better safe than sorry.

From Old Irish glais, glaise, glas.

glas f (genitive singular glaise, nominative plural glasa)

1. rivulet, stream

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “glas” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “glas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Old Dutch glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą.

• IPA^(key): /ɣlas/

glas n

1. glass (substance)

• Dutch: glas
  • Afrikaans: glas
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: glasi
  • Negerhollands: glas
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: gilás
  • → Caribbean Javanese: gelas
  • → Indonesian: gelas
  • → Japanese: ガラス (garasu)
  • → Papiamentu: glas
  • → Sranan Tongo: grasi
    • → Kari'na: kalasi (or directly)
• Limburgish: glaas

• “glas”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “glas”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• glace, glasce, glass, glasse

Inherited from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlas/, /ˈɡlaːs/, /ˈɡlɛs/

glas (plural glasses)

1. Glass (substance made with melted sand):
   • a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales‎, lines 151–152:

     Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was /Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas […]

     Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]

2. An object made of or containing glass:
   1. A glass; a cup or drinking-vessel made of glass.
   2. A box, receptacle, or vessel made of glass.
   3. A mirror made of glass; a piece of glass for personal grooming.
   4. (rare) A sandglass; a sand timer.
3. Ground-up glass as used in alchemy and pharmaceuticals.
4. A kind of crystal similar in appearance to glass.
5. (rare) A shard or fragment of glass.

• English: glass (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: gless, glass

• “glas, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-20.

glas f

1. glass (substance)

glas n (definite singular glaset, indefinite plural glas, definite plural glasa or glasene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by glass

From Middle Low German glas.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːs/

glas n (definite singular glaset, indefinite plural glas, definite plural glasa)

1. glass (hard and transparent material)
2. glass (drink container made of glass)
3. window

• glass (Bokmål)

• “glas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/

From Proto-Celtic *glastos.

glas

1. green, greenish (especially of growing things, grass, trees, etc.)
2. blue, green-blue, grey-blue
3. the colour of the blue dye extracted from woad
4. metallic in colour
5. the colour of frost or ice
6. shades of grey
7. wan (of complexion)
8. bluish, livid, discolored
9. faded (of clothing)

From earlier *glapsâ, which could be related to Old English clyppan (“to clasp, embrace, hold onto”).

glas m or f

1. lock, fetter, clasp, bolt
2. winding up, conclusion

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “glas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 196

• glar

From Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). Compare Old English glæs, Old Dutch glas, Old Frisian gles, Old High German glas, clas, Old Norse gler.

glas n

1. glass

• Middle Low German: glas, glār
  • German Low German: Glas
  • Plautdietsch: Glauss
  • → Old Norse: *glas
    • Faroese: glas
    • Norwegian: glass, glas
    • Old Swedish: glas
      • Swedish: glas
    • Old Danish: glas
      • Danish: glas
        • → Icelandic: glas
    • → Finnish: lasi (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ Old Norse: glaskeri

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic гласъ (glasŭ, “voice”), from Proto-Slavic *golsъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/
• Rhymes: -as

glas n (plural glasuri)

1. (now relatively literary) voice
2. (music) mode of Orthodox chant, of which there are eight
3. (obsolete) words, speech
4. (obsolete) news

• glasnic
• glăscior
• glăsi
• glăsui

• glas in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠas̪/
• Hyphenation: glas

From Old Irish glas (descriptive of various shades of light green and blue, passing from grass-green to grey). Cognates include Irish glas and Manx glass.

glas (genitive singular masculine glais, genitive singular feminine glaise, nominative plural glasa, comparative glaise)

1. green (natural; of grass, trees, etc.)

   Synonym: gorm

2. green (unripe)
3. (figurative) green (inexperienced)
4. grey (of sheep, horses, cloth, wool, etc.; also of eyes)
5. pale, wan, sallow

glas (past ghlas, future glasaidh, verbal noun glasadh, past participle glaste)

1. (intransitive) to pale; to turn grey

From Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”). Cognate with Irish glas and Manx glass.

glas f (genitive singular glaise, plural glasan)

1. lock

glas (past ghlas, future glasaidh, verbal noun glasadh, past participle glaste)

1. (transitive) to lock

• glais

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “glas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 334
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsás.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlâːs/

glȃs m (Cyrillic spelling гла̑с)

1. voice
2. vote
3. (expressively) news
4. (linguistics) phone

• glȁsan

• “glas” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *golsъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsás.

• IPA^(key): /ɡláːs/
• Hyphenation: glas

glȃs m inan

1. voice

   Synonyms: glasek, štima, vokal

2. vote

   Synonyms: votum, volilni glas

3. (linguistics) phone
4. sound

   Synonym: zvok

5. rumour, repute

   Synonym: govorica

6. (obsolete) message^[→SP]

   Synonyms: sporočilo, obvestilo

n=

• less common, stylistically marked in dual and plural

n=

• “glas”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “glas”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

glas (invariable)

1. Only used in azúcar glas

• “glas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Swedish glas, from Middle Low German glas, from Old Saxon glas.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːs

glas n

1. glass (material)

   en glasmugg

   a glass mug

   en mugg av glas

   a mug made of glass

   glasblåsare

   glassblower

2. a glass (vessel)

   ett glas mjölk

   a glass of milk

   ett glas saft

   a glass of squash/cordial

   ett vinglas

   a wine glass

   Glaset föll i golvet och gick i kras

   The glass fell to the floor and shattered [I (“in”) as opposed to till (“to”) puts more focus on the impact and often implies an accidental fall, though this is a fairly native-level distinction – can be thought of as a generalization of "fall in the water" and the like. "Falla till golvet" – like in English – isn't wrong either.]

• "A glass of X" is idiomatically "ett glas X" or – less commonly – "ett glas med X" (a glass with X). "Ett glas av mjölk" means "a glass made of [English "of" in that sense] milk."
• Other containers work the same way, for example "två flaskor vin" (two bottles of wine), "en dunk bensin" (a jerry can of gas), and "en tunna potatis" (a barrel of potatoes), as well as some other means of packaging something, like "en rulle hushållspapper" (a roll of kitchen paper).

• glasbruk
• glashytta
• inte spotta i glaset (“to like a drink”)

• glass (“ice cream”)

• glas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• glas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• glas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• algs, lags, slag

From English glass.

glas

1. glass (as in glass of water)

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh glas, from Proto-Brythonic *glas, from Proto-Celtic *glastos. Related to glân (“clean”), arsenig (“arsenic”), and clorin (“chlorine”).

Cognate with Cornish glas (“blue, green, grey”), Breton glas (“blue”), Irish glas (“green, grey”), Scottish Gaelic glas (“grey, green, unripe”) and Manx glass (“green, grey, pale, raw”).

glas (feminine singular glas, plural gleision, equative glased, comparative glasach, superlative glasaf)

1. blue
2. (archaic) green (of plants), verdant, unripe

   Synonym: gwyrdd

3. (archaic) pale blue or green, slate-coloured
4. (archaic) silver

   Synonym: arian

5. early, dawning, young, raw, immature
   • 2001, Menna Elfyn, Er cof am Kelly:

     Panig wedi'r poen. / "My God its only a little girl" / Meddai'r glas filwr.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. grey (of a horse)

The word glas used to cover a much wider range of colours than it does in modern Welsh, from green (especially of nature) through blue to slaty grey and silver. In the present-day language it corresponds to English "blue" but is occasionally found in phrases and compound words to convey other colours.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

glas

1. Soft mutation of clas (“cloister”).