Glas

Borrowed from Dutch and German Glas.

Glas (plural Glases)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Glas is the 34758^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 650 individuals. Glas is most common among White (90.46%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Glas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50.

• GALS, LGAs, gals, lags, slag

• Glaas

From Middle High German glas, from Old High German glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Cognate with German Glas, Dutch glas, English glass.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑs/

Glas n (plural Gleser, diminutive Glesli)

1. glass (material)
2. glass (drinking vessel)
3. pane of glass

From glas (“glass”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɑs/
• Hyphenation: Glas
• Rhymes: -ɑs

Glas

1. a surname

From Old High German glas, gles, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to shine, glimmer, glow”). Compare Low German Glas, Dutch glas, English glass, Icelandic gler.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːs/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ɡlas/ (variant in Low German areas; but inflected forms always with a long vowel)

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• Rhymes: -aːs, -as

Glas n (strong, genitive Glases, plural Gläser or Glas, diminutive Gläschen n or Gläslein n)

1. (material) glass
2. (container) glass
   • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 36:

     Ein frisch gefülltes Glas Champagner stand vor ihm. Er trank es in einem Zug aus – mit Lust, fast mit Begier.

     A freshly filled glass of champaign was in front of him. He emptied it in one draught – with pleasure, almost with greed.

3. (container) jar (made of glass)
   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 31:

     So wurden im Garten noch die letzten Stachelbeeren und Himbeeren, wurden schon frühe Pflaumen und Pfirsiche gepflückt; in der Küche weckte Mamsell das viele Obst und Gemüse in unzähligen Gläsern ein; […]

     So even the last gooseberries and raspberries and already early plums and peaches were plucked in the garden; in the kitchen the housekeeper canned all this large amount of fruits and vegetables in countless jars; […]

4. (amount of liquid) glass

• The normal plural is Gläser.
• The unchanged plural Glas can be used, alternatively, after numerals when referring to a quantity of drinks someone has drunk (or served, etc.): Mein Vater trinkt jeden Abend fünf Glas Bier. – “My father has five glasses of beer every evening.”

• glasartig, glasig
• Glaser, Glaserei
• glasieren, gläsern
• einglasen, verglasen

Glas n (mixed, genitive Glases, plural Glasen)

1. (nautical) time stamp for half an hour

• “Glas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Glas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Glas (Stoff, Gefäß)” in Duden online
• “Glas (Zeitraum, Zeitangabe)” in Duden online
• Glas on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Old High German glas, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Cognate with German Glas, Dutch glas, English glass.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Glas n (plural Glieser)

1. (uncountable) glass (material)
2. glass (drinking vessel)
3. (plural Glas) glass (amount of liquid)
4. jar (made of glass)

• Glas in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire