Knast
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See also: knast
East Central German
[edit]Noun
[edit]Knast
Further reading
[edit]- Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Through Rotwelsch (thieves’ cant) from Yiddish קנס (knas, “a fine”), from Hebrew קְנָס (qənās, “a fine”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sense 2”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Knast m (strong, genitive Knastes or Knasts, plural Knäste)
- (informal) jail, the nick, the slammer
- (colloquial, chiefly eastern Germany) hunger
- Knast haben ― to be hungry
Declension
[edit]Declension of Knast [masculine, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
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