abstrakt kunst

First part abstrakt (“abstract”) from Latin abstractus (“drawn away, abstract”), perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“I draw away, withdraw”), from both ab- (“away, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from trahō (“I pull, draw, drag”), from Proto-Italic *traɣō, from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull”), from *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”).

Last part kunst (“art”) from Middle Low German kunst (“knowledge, ability”), from Old Saxon kunst, from Proto-Germanic *kunstiz (“knowledge, ability”), from the verb *kunnaną (“to know, recognise”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti (“to know, recognize”), from *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-né- (forms transitive imperfective verbs).

• IPA^(key): /abˈstrakt kʉnst/, /apˈstrakt kʉnst/

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• Rhymes: -ʉnst
• Hyphenation: ab‧strakt‧kunst

abstrakt kunst m (uncountable)

1. (art) abstract art (art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way)

• absolutt kunst (“absolute art, abstract art”)

• kunst “abstrakt kunst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abstrakt kunst” in Store norske leksikon