Knast

== East Central German == === Noun === Knast (Erzgebirgisch) hunger === Further reading === Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), 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] (in German), 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 === IPA(key): /knast/ === 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 ==== Knastologe === Further reading === “Knast”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “Knast” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon