Aas
German, noun
Aas is spelled A-A-S (3 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 30,497th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aas is a German neuter noun meaning “carrion (perished animal, especially as food for scavengers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, aas is a different word: “singular imperative of aasen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “toter und meist verwesender Tierkörper”.
What does Aas mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutercarrion (perished animal, especially as food for scavengers)
- 2
archaicneuterbait
- 3
colloquialderogatoryneutera word for a person or animal, often implying insubordination and/or cunning, but also used affectionately for someone cheeky or shrewd
ein raffiniertes, kleines Aas
verb
- 1
singular imperative of aasen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of aasen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. toter und meist verwesender Tierkörper 2. Fleisch eines toten, verwesenden Tierkörpers 3. Fleisch, das zum Anlocken von Tieren ausgelegt wird 4. hinterhältige Person, gemeiner Mensch; Personenbezeichnung mit breiter Bedeutung, als Schimpfwort, misstrauisch-abweisend bis anerkennend
abbreviation: 1. Atom-Absorptions-Spektroskopie/Atomabsorptionsspektroskopie 2. Allgemeines Anpassungssyndrom
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Aas
- Aases genitive
- Aase plural
- Äser plural
- Aasen dative definite plural
- Äsern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Aas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Aas in German?
Aas appears 1.4 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).