plaas
/plɑːs/South African
noun
A farm, a homestead. In later use also (mildly depreciative ): (with the) a farming area, regarded as unsophisticated or unworldly.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), poet, journalist, and philanthropist. FromSouth African Dutch plaas (Afrikaans plaas), Dutch plaats farm, place, square: see place.
- strong eye
- strong-eyed
- strong farmer
- strongful
- strong gale
- strong hand
- strong-handed
- strongheaded
- stronghold
- stronghouse
- strong interaction
- strongish
- strong joint
- strongle
- strong-like
- strongly
- strongman
- strong man's weed
- strong meat
- strong-minded
- strong-mindedness
- strongness
- strong on
- strongpoint
- strongroom