glas

Inherited 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑːs/

glas

1. blue
2. green

Inherited 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

Inherited 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

   glas:  

   Synonym: blou

2. green (of living things)

   glas:  

3. gray / grey

   glas:  

   Synonym: loos

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

Inherited 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

Inherited 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)

   Hyponyms: bierglas, champagneglas, whiskeyglas, wijnglas

   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.

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

• slag

Inherited 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

Derived from French glace (“ice”).

glas

1. ice

• glase

Inherited 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/^[2]
• (Connemara) IPA^(key): /ɡl̪ˠasˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡlˠasˠ/, /ɡl̪ˠasˠ/^[3]

Inherited 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. (ambitransitive) alternative form of glasaigh (“become green”)

Inherited from Old Irish glas (“clasp, lock”).

glas m (genitive singular glais, nominative plural glais)

1. lock

Inherited 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
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “glas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “glas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Inherited 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^[1], 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 20 February 2019.

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

Derived 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)

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

From earlier *glaxsā, 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

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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^[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 196

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

glas n

1. glass

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• glēr

• Middle Low German: glas
  • German Low German: Glas
  • Plautdietsch: Glauss
  • → Old Norse: *glas
    • Faroese: glas
    • Norwegian Bokmål: glass
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: 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

• “glas”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Middle Irish [Term?], 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.

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

glas (genitive singular masculine ghlais, 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

1. (intransitive) to pale; to turn grey

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Old Irish glas (“clasp; lock”). Cognates include Irish glas and Manx glass.

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

glas f

1. lock

glas

1. (transitive) to lock

• glais

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “glas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 334
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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 inan (Cyrillic spelling гла̑с)

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

• glȁsan

• “glas”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlas/ [ˈɡlas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: glas

glas (invariable)

1. only used in azúcar glas

• “glas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “glas”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑːs/

• Audio:

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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. glass (vessel)

   ett glas mjölk

   a glass of milk

   ett glas saft

   a glass of cordial / squash

   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 "ett glas X" or – less commonly – "ett glas med X" (a glass with X). "Ett glas av mjölk" means "a glass made of milk" (English of in that sense).
• 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 "ett sexpack öl" (a six-pack of beer), "en rulle hushållspapper" (a roll of kitchen paper), and "en karta tabletter" (a strip of tablets). See also the usage examples for hink (“bucket”).

• dricksglas (“drinking glass”)
• 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

Derived from English glass.

glas

1. glass (as in a glass of water)

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Inherited 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, green
   • 2001, Menna Elfyn, Er cof am Kelly:

     Panig wedi'r poen. / “My God it's only a little girl” / Meddai'r glas filwr.

     Panic after the pain. / “My God it's only a little girl” / Said the young soldier.

6. grey (of a horse)

The word glas can be used to cover a much wider range of colours than in English, from green (especially of nature) through blue to slaty grey and silver. In the present day it usually corresponds more closely to English "blue", but is often 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”)