kanvas

From Dutch canvas, from Middle Dutch canevas, from Old Northern French canevas, from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of kanabis and kampas.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkanvas]
• Hyphenation: kan‧vas
• Rhymes: -as

kanvas

1. canvas, a piece of canvas cloth on which one may paint

• “kanvas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From German Kanevas, from French canevas, derived from Medieval Latin cannava (“hemp”). Doublet of kannabis.^[1][2]

kanvas m (definite singular kanvasen, indefinite plural kanvaser, definite plural kanvasene)

1. a canvas

• In addition to its masculine gender, this noun was also considered neuter prior to a 2019 revision.^[3] The forms kanvaset, kanvas (as indefinite plural) and kanvasa were all made non-standard by this change.

• (non-standard since 2012) kanevas m or n

From German Kanevas, from French canevas, derived from Medieval Latin cannava (“hemp”). Doublet of kannabis.^[1][2]

kanvas m (definite singular kanvasen, indefinite plural kanvasar, definite plural kanvasane)

1. a canvas

• In addition to its masculine gender, this noun was also considered neuter prior to a 2019 revision.^[3] The forms kanvaset, kanvas (as indefinite plural) and kanvasa were all made non-standard by this change.

From French canevas.

• IPA^(key): /kɑn.vɑs/

kanvas (definite accusative kanvası, plural kanvaslar)

1. canvas