beemd
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch beemt. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beːmt/
(file) - Hyphenation: beemd
- Rhymes: -eːmt
Noun
beemd m (plural beemden, diminutive beemdje n)
- low-lying pasture near water, e.g. a flood plain or a grassy polder
- 1974, Thijs van Leer & Jan Akkerman, "Hamburger Concerto", Focus, Hamburger Concerto, quoting Vondel, "O, Kerstnacht schoner dan de dagen".
- Hij tracht d' onnozelen te vernielen / Door het doden van onnozele zielen / En wekt een stad en landgeschrei / In Bethlehem en op den akker / En maakt den geest van Rachel wakker / Die waren gaat door beemd en wei
- He tries to exterminate the innocent / by killing innocent souls / and rouses weeping in town and country / in Bethlehem and on the field / and awakens the ghost of Rachel / who begins to haunt through moor and pasture
- 1974, Thijs van Leer & Jan Akkerman, "Hamburger Concerto", Focus, Hamburger Concerto, quoting Vondel, "O, Kerstnacht schoner dan de dagen".
Derived terms
- Beemdenbuurt
- beemdgras
- beemdhaver
- Beemdkant
- beemdkroon
- beemdlangbloem
- beemdooievaarsbek
- Beemster
- Dommelbeemd
- Genderbeemd
- Haagse Beemden
- Keersopperbeemden
- Klingbemden
- Maasband
- Stuksbeemden
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