straat

From Dutch straat, from Middle Dutch strate, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta.

• IPA^(key): /strɑːt/

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straat (plural strate)

1. street, road

• → Swazi: sitaladi
• → Xhosa: isitrato, isitalato

From Middle Dutch strâte, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”).

The sense “strait” is a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit, from Latin strictus. Compare German Straße.

• IPA^(key): /straːt/

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• Hyphenation: straat
• Rhymes: -aːt
• Homophone: Straat

straat f (plural straten, diminutive straatje n)

1. street, paved way
2. (geography) channel, strait

   Straat Yucatan — the Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán

   Straat (van) Malakka — Strait of Malacca

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- toponyms:

• Afrikaans: straat
  • → Swazi: sitaladi
  • → Xhosa: isitrato, isitalato
• → Indonesian: setrat
• → Sranan Tongo: strati
  • → Aukan: sitaati, strati
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: stráti
  • → Saramaccan: sitááti

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