straat

Borrowed from Afrikaans straat. Doublet of street.

straat (plural straate or straaten)

1. (South Africa) A valley between dunes.
   • 1908, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, “Colonial Reports”, in Sessional Papers:

     The "straate" are generally level and have a fairly hard surface often broken by protruding boulders of limestone.

   • 1919, South Africa Dept. of Lands, Report of the Department of Lands, page 17:

     Dune veld consists for the most part of rolling sand hills with wide or narrow straaten running in between the rows of sand hills.

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

• → English: straat
• → 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

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

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