Balken
See also: balken
German
Etymology
From Middle High German balke, from Old High German balko, balcho, from Proto-West Germanic *balkō, from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Compare English balk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbalkn̩/, /ˈbalkən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Bal‧ken
Noun
Balken m (strong, genitive Balkens, plural Balken)
- beam, crossbeam
- Synonym: (Austria) Tram
- Das Dach wird von vier Balken gestützt. ― The roof is supported by four beams.
- bar (long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart; informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone)
- Ich habe noch vier Balken Akku. ― I still have four bars of battery.
- (music) beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)
- (heraldry) fess
Declension
Derived terms
- Balkenblase
- Balkenbrücke
- Balkencode
- Balkendecke
- Balkendiagramm
- Balkengalaxie
- Balkenkonstruktion
- Balkenlage
- Balkentheorie
- Balkenwaage
- Dachbalken
- den Splitter im fremden Auge, aber nicht den Balken im eigenen sehen
- Donnerbalken
- Fensterbalken
- Firstbalken
- Ganzbalken
- Giebelbalken
- Holzbalken
- Kehlbalken
- Leerbalken
- lügen, dass sich die Balken biegen
- Ortbalken
- Querbalken
- Schrägbalken
- Schwebebalken
- Stichbalken
- Stützbalken
- Wandbalken
- Wasser hat keine Balken / Wasser hat keinen Balken
- Wechselbalken
Further reading
- “Balken” in Duden online
- “Balken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Balken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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