gazon

Borrowing from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Old Frankish *wasō (“ground, turf, sod”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, damp, wet”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”), German Low German Waas (“bundle of twigs”), Dutch waas (“haze, mist, film”).

gazon (plural gazons)

1. One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

• Zango, zogan

Borrowed from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Frankish *waso (“ground, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô, *waisǭ (“moisture; ground”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣaːˈzɔn/

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• Hyphenation: ga‧zon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

gazon n (plural gazons, diminutive gazonnetje n)

1. lawn

• waas

Inherited from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Frankish *wasō (“ground, turf”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”), German Low German Waas (“bundle of twigs”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɔ̃/ ~ /ɡɑ.zɔ̃/

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gazon m (plural gazons)

1. lawn
2. turf; grass

• gazon anglais
• hockey sur gazon
• tondeuse à gazon

• → Dutch: gazon
• → English: gazon
• → Esperanto: gazono
• → Greek: γκαζόν (gkazón)
• → Russian: газон (gazon)
  • → Armenian: գազոն (gazon)
  • → Georgian: გაზონი (gazoni)
  • → Yakut: газон (gazon)

• herbe
• pelouse

• “gazon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

gaz +‎ -on

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒzon]
• Hyphenation: ga‧zon

gazon

1. superessive singular of gaz

From French gazon.

gazon

1. grass, turf

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN

Borrowed from French gazon.

gazon n (uncountable)

1. grass

From French gazon.

gazon

1. grass, turf

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN