glas

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

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

glas

1. blue
2. green (of living things)
3. grey

• blou

glas

1. Alternative form of glaz

Borrowed from Middle Low German 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.

• → Icelandic: glas

From Old Dutch 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.

• Rhymes: -ɑs

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• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑs/, /xlɑs/

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
• → Japanese: ガラス (garasu)
• → Sranan Tongo: grasi

• slag

Borrowed from Middle Low German glas.

• IPA^(key): /klɛaːs/

glas n (genitive singular glas, plural gløs)

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

From Vulgar Latin *classum, from Latin classicum.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ

glas m (plural glas)

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

• “glas” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /klaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

glas n (genitive singular glass, nominative plural glös)

1. glass (beverage container)

• andaglas
• stundaglas
• tilraunaglas
• vatnsglas

• IPA^(key): /ɡlˠasˠ/

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.)
2. grey (of sheep, horses, cloth, wool, etc.; of eyes)
3. (politics) green
4. (figuratively) inexperienced

• uaine

From Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”).

glas m (genitive singular glais, nominative plural glais)

1. lock

• "glas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• 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.

glas f

1. glass (substance)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɣlas/

glas n

1. glass (substance)

• Dutch: glas
  • Afrikaans: glas
  • → Japanese: ガラス (garasu)
  • → Sranan Tongo: grasi
• Limburgish: glaas

• “glas”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “glas”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• glass, glasse, glace, glasce

From Old English glæs, 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.

• glasen
• glasier
• glasy
• glasyng

• English: glass
  • → Fiji Hindi: gilaas
  • → Indonesian: gelas
  • → Japanese: グラス (gurasu), ガラス (garasu)
  • → Kikuyu: ngirathi
  • → Malay: gelas, ݢلس‎
• Scots: gless, glass

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

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)

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Irish: glas
• Manx: glass
• Scottish Gaelic: glas

glas m or f

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Irish: glas
• Manx: glass
• Scottish Gaelic: glas

• “1 glas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 glas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• gles

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
  • German Low German: Glas
  • Plautdietsch: Glauss
  • → Old Norse: glas (in glaskeri)
    • Faroese: glas
    • Norwegian: glass, glas
    • Old Swedish: glas
      • Swedish: glas
        • → Finnish: klasi, lasi
          • → Votic: klazi, klasi
    • Old Danish: glas
      • Danish: glas
        • → Icelandic: glas
    • Westrobothnian: glæs, glås

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *golsъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/
• Rhymes: -as

glas n (plural glasuri)

1. voice
2. vote

• voce

• IPA^(key): /klas/

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

glas

1. green (of grass, trees, etc.; also "inexperienced")
2. grey (of sheep, horses, cloth, wool, etc.; also of eyes)

From Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”).

glas f (genitive singular glais or glaise, plural glasan)

1. lock

• glas-ghuib

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

1. lock

• glais

From Proto-Slavic *golsъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaːs/

glȃs m (Cyrillic spelling гла̑с)

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

• “glas” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *golsъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡláːs/
• Tonal orthography: glȃs

glás m inan (genitive glasú or glása, nominative plural glasôvi or glási)

1. voice

• glásek
• glásen

glas (invariable)

1. Only used in azúcar glas

From Old Swedish glas, from Middle Low German glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːs

glas n

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

• → Finnish: klasi, lasi
  • → Votic: klazi, klasi

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. →ISBN.

From English glass.

glas

1. glass (as in glass of water)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːs/

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

1. blue
2. inexperienced
   • 2001, Menna Elfyn, "Er cof am Kelly":

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