bambarast

Swedish

Etymology

Compound of bamba (“school canteen”) +‎ rast (“break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²bambaˌrast/

Noun

bambarast c

1. (dialectal, Gothenburg) lunch break during a school day
   • 2006, Pär Düsing, “’Det är lättare med kontanter’ [’Cash is easier’]”, in Göteborgs-Posten‎^[1]:

     Det är bambarast och ett tiotal elever i 8 C på Kärraskolan sitter på trappan till baracklängan där högstadiet har sina klassrum.

     It is lunch break and around ten students in class 8C at Kärraskolan are sitting on the stairs to the row of barracks where the high school has its classrooms.

Declension

Declension of bambarast
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bambarast	bambarasten	bambaraster	bambarasterna
Genitive	bambarasts	bambarastens	bambarasters	bambarasternas

Synonyms

• lunchrast