Noun: straat
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Straat Yucatan — the Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán
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Straat (van) Malakka (Strait of Malacca)
Nouns inflected like straat
surrogaat,
senaat,
voetsoldaat,
episcopaat,
vernevelapparaat,
zeesoldaat,
markiezaat,
optimaat,
granulaat,
ftalaat,
vertrekstaat,
honingraat,
antiquariaat,
baccalaureaat,
cyclosilicaat,
vertebraat,
dorpsstraat,
satellietstaat,
narcostaat,
ledemaat, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch strâte, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”).
2. The geographical sense “strait” is a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit, from Latin strictus. Compare German Straße.
3. The poker sense “straight” is a phono-semantic matching of English straight. Compare German Straße. See: Latin Nouns '
strāta', Latin Nouns '
strictus', German Nouns '
Straße', German Nouns '
Straße'.
Verbs referencing "straat"
English Nouns
street.
Translations