Flasche

From Middle High German flasche, from Old High German flasca (“bottle”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”), from *flehtaną (“to plait, braid”), from the practice of plaiting or wrapping bottles in straw casing. Cognate to English flask.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaʃə/

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• Rhymes: -aʃə

Flasche f (genitive Flasche, plural Flaschen, diminutive Fläschchen n or Fläschlein n)

1. bottle; flask; flagon

   Wir hätten gern eine Flasche von dem Chardonnay und eine Flasche stilles Wasser dazu.

   We’d like a bottle of your chardonnay and a bottle of still water with it.

2. (informal) loser; wimp; someone lacking skill or vigour

• → Macedonian: флаша (flaša)
• → Polish: flasza
  • ⇒ Polish: flaszka
    • → Belarusian: пляшка (pljaška)
    • → Ukrainian: пля́шка (pljáška), фля́жка (fljážka)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: флаша

  Latin script: flaša

• → Slovak: fľaša

• “Flasche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Flasche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Flasche” in Duden online
• Flasche on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Flasche”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891