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East Central German
Noun
Knast
- (Erzgebirgisch) hunger
Further reading
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, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74:
German
Etymology
Through Rotwelsch (thieves’ cant) from Yiddish קנס (knas, “a fine”), from Hebrew קְנָס (qənās, “a fine”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “sense 2”)
Pronunciation
Noun
Knast m (strong, genitive Knastes or Knasts, plural Knäste)
- (informal) jail, the nick, the slammer
- Synonyms: Gefängnis, Kittchen, Bau, (Austria) Häfen
- (colloquial, chiefly eastern Germany) hunger
- Knast haben ― to be hungry
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Knast” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Knast” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon