Other forms: ashtrays
An ashtray is a small dish for the ends of cigarettes. Empty the ashtray, a full ashtray, tap it into the ashtray.
It has all but disappeared from public life since indoor smoking bans, and a car ashtray is now a coin tray in every model that still has one. The word is a plain compound and the German is built the same way.
1nounashtrayA small dish for the ends of cigarettes.
“He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray on the balcony.”
ashtray is a dish.
Ash plus tray, and the German for it is a compound of the same two words.
From ash + tray. From ash + tray. Compare German Aschenbecher.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA