strath
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English
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic srath, from Old Irish srath, from Proto-Celtic *stratos, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Doublet of stratus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɹæθ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æθ
Noun
strath (plural straths)
- (Scotland) A wide, flat river valley.
- 1874, Bayard Taylor, chapter IV, in Central Asia. Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet, and Central Asia:
- The place of exit from the hills of one or other of the Punjab rivers could generally be pointed out to me; the straths and gorges that opened upon the plains would often afford a peep into the interior of the mountains...
- 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 237:
- Agatha and Inga rode their horses with style across the strath.