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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

From Thai ??? (bàat)

Alternative forms

• bat (dated)

Noun

baht (plural baht or bahts)

1. The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.

Translations

Etymology 2

Spelling pronunciation of but.

Adverb

baht (not comparable)

1. (Yorkshire) Without.

   On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at (song)

Anagrams

• Ba'th, Bath, Bhat, bath

French

Etymology

From Thai ??? (bàat)

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht (unit of currency)

Further reading

• “baht” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

From Thai ??? (bàat)

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht (unit of currency)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (baht), from Persian ???? (baxt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâxt/

Noun

b?ht m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional, expressively) luck

Declension

References

• “baht” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Thai ??? (bàat)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?t/

Noun

baht m (genitive singular bahtu, nominative plural bahty, declension pattern of dub)

1. (numismatics) baht (unit of currency)

Declension

References

• baht in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

baht m (plural bahts)

1. baht

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (baxt).

Noun

baht (definite accusative baht?, plural bahtlar)

1. luck
2. fortune

Declension

Derived terms

• bahts?z

English

Alternative forms

• bass

Etymology

From Middle English bast, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *b?ask-, *b?as?- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bæst/

Noun

bast (countable and uncountable, plural basts)

1. Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87

     I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.

   • 1997: ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, page 145

     He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.

Related terms

• (possibly) bastard

Translations

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bats, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bats, stab, tabs

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bast/, [b?asd?]

Noun

bast c (singular definite basten, not used in plural form)

1. bast
2. raffia

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?st/
• Hyphenation: bast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bast. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

bast f (plural basten, diminutive bastje n)

1. A bark, as on a tree
2. (figuratively) A skin, hide

Derived terms

• boombast

Etymology 2

Verb

bast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of bassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of bassen

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• bats

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /past/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bast (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *b?ask-, *b?as?- (“bundle”).

Noun

bast n (genitive singular basts, uncountable)

1. bast, raffia
2. rope made of bast

Declension

Etymology 2

From the verb at basa.

Verb

bast

1. supine of basa

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bæst, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz.

Alternative forms

• baste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bast/

Noun

bast (plural bastes)

2. A cord or cable manufactured using bast.
3. (rare) Bast; fibre made from the phloem of plants.

Descendants

• English: bast, bass
• Scots: bass

References

• “bast, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bast (French bât).

Alternative forms

• baste, baaste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?st/

Noun

bast (uncountable)

2. Illegitimacy; the state of being illegitimate.

Derived terms

• bastard

References

• “b?st, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bast, from Old Norse bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz. Cognate with English bast and German Bast.

Noun

bast n

1. bast (fibre material)

Declension

Related terms

• bastfiber
• basthud
• bastkjol
• bastkorg
• bastmatta
• lindbast

Etymology 2

From Tavringer Romani bassj, bassjt, from Romani berš, bersh. Cognate to Sanskrit ???? (var?a, “year”).

Noun

bast n

1. year (when telling age)

References

• bast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bast in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• “bast” in Gerd Carling, Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2005, ?ISBN, page 73.

Anagrams

• stab