Balken

German (Berlin)

/ˈbalkn̩/

noun
Definitions
  • beam, crossbeam
  • bar long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart, informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone
  • (music) beam horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value
  • (heraldiccharge) fess

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German balko inherited from *balkō inherited from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam, balk).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*balkô

Gloss

beam, balk

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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