Knast
See also: knast
East Central German edit
Noun edit
Knast
Further reading edit
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74:
German edit
Etymology edit
Through Rotwelsch (thieves’ cant) from Yiddish קנס (knas, “a fine”), from Hebrew קְנָס (kənās, “a fine”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sense 2”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Knast m (strong, genitive Knastes or Knasts, plural Knäste)
- (informal) jail, the slammer
- (colloquial, chiefly eastern Germany) hunger
- Knast haben ― to be hungry
Declension edit
Declension of Knast [masculine, strong]