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[–] quediuspayu 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

In Spanish we call them "malas hierbas"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days 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.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

And I think that's beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] swampdownloader 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] quediuspayu 3 points 2 days 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.