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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In Spanish we call them "malas hierbas"

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In German it's "Unkraut" which could either be interpreted as "not herb", "abnormal herb" or "evil herb". Is the range similar in Spanish?

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Other than the “not” part, yeah. “Mala” is bad, wrong, evil, wicked, ill, naughty, etc.

(Checked this to confirm before I posted, since it’s been several years since I’ve known Spanish well enough to speak it.)

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Estonian is umbrohi which is kind of like "not grass" so pretty similar to Deutsch here

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In french, it's similar: "mauvaises herbes"

[–] ShutUpDonnie@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

And I think that's beautiful.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Isn’t hierba buena mint? Everything else must be hierba neutra then

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I learnt from Animal Crossing that it was "Malezas"

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleza

La maleza, mala hierba, hierba mala, yuyo, planta arvense, adventicia o planta adventicia, planta espontánea o planta indeseable

"Mala hierba nunca muere" is also a fun saying

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Maleza is more like a thicket or lots of malas hierbas.

https://dle.rae.es/maleza?m=form

But now I see that in some countries is synonymous with mala hierba, I didn't know that.

Some countries in Latin America call it maleza and others do not