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English

Etymology

Clipping of banter.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænt

Noun

bant (uncountable)

1. (slang) Clipping of banter.

See also

• banting

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German want, from Old High German want, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod, stick; barrier made of sticks, fence”). Cognate with German Wand, Dutch wand, Icelandic vendi.

Noun

bant f (plural bèntar) (Sette Comuni)

1. wall, partition

2. twelve fathoms

Declension

References

• “bant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

bant

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bana, banet

Verb

bant

1. past participle of bane (Etymology 3)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bant/

Etymology 1

From i bant (“to (the) hollow/valley”).

Adverb

bant

1. (South Wales, colloquial) away, off

   Gyrrodd e bant heb ddweud gair

   He drove away / off, without saying a word

   Synonym: i ffwrdd

2. (South Wales, colloquial) off (not in an operating state)

   Ydy'r cyfrifiadur bant?

   Is the computer off?

   Synonym: i ffwrdd

   Antonym: ymlaen

Derived terms

• amser bant (“time away, time off”)
• bant â hi (“slapdash”)
• bant â'r cart (“off we go”)
• diwrnod bant (“day away, day off”)

Mutation

As bant is already the soft mutation of pant, it cannot be further mutated.

Etymology 2

Noun

bant

1. Soft mutation of pant.

Mutation

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