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bas

English

Noun

bas

  1. plural of ba

Verb

bas

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ba

Anagrams

  • ABS, ABs, Abs, BSA, SAB, SBA, Sab., abs, abs-, abs., sab

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [b?s]

Noun

bas (plural [please provide])

  1. bass (instrument)
  2. bass (low frequencies of sound)

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Cebuano

Alternative forms

  • balas

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ba?las

Noun

bas

  1. sand

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bas.


Cimbrian

Alternative forms

  • baz (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German waz, from Old High German waz, from Proto-West Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, nominative and accusative singular neuter of *hwaz. Cognate with German was, English what.

Pronoun

bas (dative bassame)

  1. (Sette Comuni, interrogative) what, which

References

  • “bas” 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

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Italian basso (low).

Noun

bas

  1. bass, bass singer

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?s/
  • Hyphenation: bas
  • Rhymes: -?s
  • Homophone: Bas

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French basse, from Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.

Noun

bas m (plural bassen, diminutive basje n)

  1. bass (instrument)
  2. bass (low frequencies of sound)
  3. bass (singing voice)
Derived terms
  • basgitaar
  • basklarinet
  • baslijn
  • bassist
  • contrabas

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: bas (bass)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bas

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bassen
  2. imperative of bassen

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?/, /ba/
  • Homophones: bât, bat, bats

Etymology 1

From Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

bas (feminine singular basse, masculine plural bas, feminine plural basses)

  1. low
  2. bass
Derived terms

Adverb

bas

  1. low

Derived terms

Noun

bas m (plural bas)

  1. socks; stockings; feet
  2. lower end; bottom (of a thing)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Shortened from bas-de-chausses.

Noun

bas m (plural bas)

  1. stocking
Derived terms
  • bas à jour
  • bas autofixant
  • bas couture
  • bas résille
  • bas relief

Anagrams

  • ABS

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

bas

  1. low

Antonyms

  • alt

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English bus.

Noun

bâs f (plural bâs-bâs)

  1. bus

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?bas]
  • Hyphenation: bas

Etymology 1

From Dutch bas (bass), from Middle French basse, from Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.

Noun

bas (first-person possessive basku, second-person possessive basmu, third-person possessive basnya)

  1. bass,
    1. a low spectrum of sound tones.
    2. a section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
    3. one who sings in the bass range.

Etymology 2

From Dutch baas (boss), from Middle Dutch baes (master of a household, friend), from Old Dutch *baso (uncle, kinsman), from Proto-Germanic *baswô. Cognates include Middle Low German b?s (supervisor, foreman), Old Frisian bas (master); possibly also Old High German basa ("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base (aunt, cousin)). Doublet of bos.

Noun

bas (first-person possessive basku, second-person possessive basmu, third-person possessive basnya)

  1. (colloquial) boss, chief, superior
    Synonyms: bos, mandor, pemborong, pembesar, kepala

Descendants

  • ? Min Nan: ??, ??.

References

Further reading

  • “bas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?as?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English bace, alteration of bars, from Old English bærs (a fish, perch), from Proto-West Germanic *bars (perch).

Noun

bas f (genitive singular baise, nominative plural basa)

  1. sea bass
Declension
Synonyms
  • doingean mara

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boss, from Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (master of a household, friend), from Old Dutch *baso (uncle, kinsman), from Proto-Germanic *baswô, masculine form of *basw?n (father's sister, aunt, cousin).

Noun

bas m (genitive singular bas, nominative plural basanna)

  1. boss (person in charge)
  2. the best (of its class, etc.)
Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

bas f (genitive singular baise, nominative plural basa)

  1. Alternative form of bos

Mutation

Further reading

  • "bas" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English bus.

Noun

bas (plural bas-bas, informal 1st possessive basku, impolite 2nd possessive basmu, 3rd possessive basnya)

  1. bus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus.

Alternative forms

  • bace, base, baas, bass, basse

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba?s/, /bas/

Adjective

bas

  1. Low, short; lacking in height or altitude.
  2. Positioned or placed low; lower than surrounding places.
  3. Quiet; lacking in loudness or volume.
  4. Poor, unlucky, common; of low rank or wealth.
  5. (rare) Low-quality; degraded.
Descendants
  • English: base
  • Scots: base
References
  • “b??s, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Etymology 2

Noun

bas

  1. Alternative form of base

Norman

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

bas m

  1. (Guernsey, Jersey) low

Derived terms

Noun

bas m (plural bas)

  1. (Jersey) ground floor

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • baish (Gascon)

Etymology

From Latin bassus.

Adjective

bas m (feminine singular bassa, masculine plural basses, feminine plural bassas)

  1. low
    Antonyms: naut, aut

Old French

Etymology

From Latin bassus.

Adjective

bas m (oblique and nominative feminine singular base)

  1. low (near the ground)

Descendants

  • French: bas
  • Norman: bas
  • ? Middle English: bas, bace, base, baas, bass, basse
    • English: base
    • Scots: base

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *bost? (palm, fist) (compare Breton boz (hollow of the hand)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ost-, *g?osd?- (branch).

Noun

bas f

  1. palm (of the hand)

Inflection

Alternative forms

  • bos

Related terms

  • lám (hand)

Descendants

  • Irish: bos
  • Scottish Gaelic: bas

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bas

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

Alternative forms

  • bes

Mutation


Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *baca, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba?ah, from Proto-Austronesian *ba?ah.

Noun

bas

  1. ember

Phalura

Etymology

From Urdu ??? (bas), from Persian ??? (bas, enough).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas/

Adverb

bas (Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

  1. enough
  2. in short
  3. okay

References

  • Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Polish

Etymology

From Latin bassus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bas/

Noun

bas m inan

  1. bass (low spectrum of sound, an instrument or a singer)
  2. a bass loudspeaker

Declension

Derived terms

  • basista, basistka

Further reading

  • bas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

References


Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) bass

Etymology

From Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

bas m (f bassa, m pl bas, f pl bassas)

  1. (Vallader) deep, low

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bas

Noun

bas f (genitive boise, dative bois, plural basan)

  1. palm (of a hand)
    buailibh ur basan - clap your hands
  2. (dated) spoke

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâs/

Noun

b?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. bass

Declension

References

  • “bas” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bá?s/

Noun

b?s m inan

  1. bass (low frequency sound)

Inflection


Southern Kam

Noun

bas

  1. aunt

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??s/

Noun

bas c

  1. base; foundation
  2. (mathematics) base, basis; a set of vectors which span a certain space
  3. (mathematics) base; the lower, horizontal line in a triangle or the horizontal plane in a cone, pyramid etc.
  4. (chemistry) base; alkali
  5. (molecular biology, colloquial) nucleotide in the context of a DNA or RNA polymer
  6. bass guitar
  7. a permanent structure for housing a military

Declension

Synonyms

  • (foundation): grund
  • (military): militärbas

See also

  • basvektor

Noun

bas c

  1. (dated) a (minor) officer or boss; the person in charge of the daily work

Declension

Synonyms

  • arbetsledare

See also

  • basa

Noun

bas c

  1. (uncountable, music) the tones of lowest frequency
  2. musical instruments, musicians, singers or loudspeakers presenting such tones

Declension

See also

  • baryton
  • basfiol
  • bashögtalare
  • basist
  • bastuba
  • elbas
  • kontrabas
  • tenor

Tatar

Alternative forms

  • pas

Noun

bas

  1. price

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bus.

Noun

bas

  1. bus

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bas/
  • Hyphenation: bas

Noun

bas (definite accusative bas?, plural baslar)

  1. (music) bass

Declension

Verb

bas

  1. second-person singular imperative of basmak

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba?s/

Etymology 1

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin bassus (short, low).

Adjective

bas (feminine singular bas, plural beision, equative based, comparative basach, superlative basaf)

  1. shallow

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin basis (foundation, base) and from English base.

Noun

bas m (plural basau)

  1. base

Derived terms

  • bas data (database)
  • pêl-fas (baseball)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English bass or perhaps the same word as the first definition above.

Noun

bas m (plural basau)

  1. (music) bass

Derived terms

  • bas dwbl (double bass)

Mutation

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  • what baseball games are on today
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  • what basketball cards are worth money
  • what basketball games are on right now
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mas

Translingual

Etymology

From m- +? as.

Symbol

mas

  1. (metrology) milliarcsecond

English

Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

Noun

mas (plural mas)

  1. A country cottage or farmstead in southern France.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 520:

Etymology 2

Noun

mas

  1. plural of ma

Etymology 3

Noun

mas (plural mas)

  1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.

Anagrams

  • 'ams, A.M.s, AMS, ASM, MSA, S. Am., SAM, SMA, Sam, Sam., sam, sma

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas/

Noun

mas (plural maste)

  1. mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

Derived terms

  • hoofmas

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • mat

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh??ti?-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?- (compare Old English m?d, Latin m?tior). Bears coincidental similarity to English mass.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mas]

Verb

mas (first-person singular past tense mata, participle matur)

  1. I measure
  2. I estimate, assess
  3. I consider

Related terms

  • mot

Derived terms

  • matem
  • matje
  • matshëm

Etymology 2

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (behind, beyond, after). From mbasi, mbas (after). A compound of (more, most) + pas (behind, after, beyond) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ? (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (directly to, at, after). Cognate to Ancient Greek ??? (pós, at, to, by), Old Church Slavonic ?? (po, behind, after)).

Preposition

mas (+ablative)

  1. behind, after, beyond
  2. at
  3. over
  4. against

Adverb

mas

  1. behind, after
  2. hence

Derived terms

  • masi (Gheg)
  • masanej (Gheg)

Related terms

  • pas
  • mbasi
  • përmasë
  • mbas

References


Asturian

Noun

mas f pl

  1. plural of ma

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan mas, from Latin mansum.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?mas/

Noun

mas m (plural masos)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalonia.

Derived terms

  • masia

Further reading

  • “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?mas]
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Homophone: maz

Noun

mas

  1. genitive plural of maso

Danish

Noun

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

  1. bother, trouble

Verb

mas

  1. imperative of mase

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin m?nsum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m?/, /m?s/

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

  1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in southern France)

Further reading

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French mars (March)

Noun

mas

  1. March

Etymology 2

From French masse (mass)

Noun

mas

  1. mass

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma?s/
  • Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

  1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

Declension


Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mas]

Etymology 1

From Javanese mas (???, brother, older brother; gold), from Old Javanese mas, m?s, ?mas, h?mas, from Sanskrit ??? (m??a, particular weight of gold).

Pronoun

mas

  1. (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours
Synonyms

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:

  • mas (used for males)
  • mbak (used for females)
  • kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
  • Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
  • saudari (used for women of equal status)
  • bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
  • ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
  • sampeyan (Java, gender-neutral)
  • panjenengan (Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Etymology 2

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

Noun

mas

  1. Alternative form of emas (gold)

Derived terms

  • mas kawin

Further reading

  • “mas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante

Noun

mas m (sometimes MAS, invariable)

  1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Latin

Etymology

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (young man) [whence Sanskrit ???? (marya, suitor, young man), Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax) and Old Armenian ???? (mari)], but this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ma?s/, [mä?s?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mas/, [m?s]

Noun

m?s m (genitive maris); third declension

  1. man, male (in the sense of male human being)

Usage notes

The sense of “human being” is rendered by Latin hom?, the sense of “male human being” by Latin m?s, and the sense of “adult male human being” by Latin vir.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Synonyms

  • (man): vir

Antonyms

  • (man): mulier

Coordinate terms

  • f?mina

Derived terms

  • mar?tus
  • mascul?nus
  • masculus
  • s?mim?s

Descendants

  • Aromanian: mari
  • Romanian: mare

Adjective

m?s (genitive maris); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. male, masculine, manly

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Related terms

  • mar?t?
  • mascul?nus

References

  • mas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Malay

Alternative forms

  • emas
  • ????
  • ???

Etymology

Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit ??? (m??a, particular weight of gold).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mas]
  • Rhymes: -mas, -as

Noun

mas (Jawi spelling ???)

  1. Alternative form of emas

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman masse.

Noun

mas

  1. Alternative form of masse (mass)

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

Noun

mas

  1. Alternative form of messe (mass)

Northern Sami

Pronoun

mas

  1. locative singular of mii

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mas

  1. imperative of mase

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mas

  1. imperative of masa

Occitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

Noun

mas m (plural mases)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house

Papiamentu

Adverb

mas

  1. most

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas/

Noun

mas f

  1. genitive plural of masa

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (more), from Proto-Indo-European *me?h?- (great). Cognate of mais (more).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /m??/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma(j)s/
    • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ma(j)s/, /m?s/
      • Homophone: más (without the intrusive /j/)
      • Homophone: mais (with the intrusive /j/)
  • Hyphenation: mas

Conjunction

mas

  1. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)
    Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto
  2. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)
  3. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)
  4. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Derived terms

  • mas é
  • mas sim
  • mas também

Adverb

mas (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how
    Synonyms: e como, e

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

  1. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

Derived terms

  • deixar de mas
  • sem mas nem meio mas

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali ??? (mach).

Noun

mas

  1. fish

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (m?msá)

Noun

mas m (plural masa)

  1. meat

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin mansum, from mansus.

Noun

mas n (plural masuri)

  1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

Declension

Related terms

  • mânea

Verb

mas

  1. past participle of mânea

Scottish Gaelic

Conjunction

mas

  1. if is

Usage notes

  • This is a shortened form of ma (if) is (am, is, are).
    mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

Somali

Noun

mas m

  1. snake

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin magis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?mas/, [?mas]
  • Homophone: más

Conjunction

mas

  1. (formal) but
    Synonym: pero
  2. (formal) however
    Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

Adverb

mas

  1. Misspelling of más.
  2. Obsolete spelling of más

Further reading

  • “mas” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

mas c

  1. Dalecarlian; a man from the province Dalarna (Dalecarlia) (in particular one of the common people)
  2. (colloquial) tax collector

Declension

Synonyms

man from Dalecarlia
  • dalmas
  • dalkarl
tax collector
  • skatteindrivare
  • skattmas

References

  • mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

Particle

mas

  1. comparative marker of inequality

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English must.

Verb

mas

  1. must

mas


Welsh

Alternative forms

  • ma's

Etymology

From i'r maes (to the field), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /a?/ in South Wales.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma?s/

Adverb

mas

  1. (South Wales, colloquial) out
    Synonym: allan

Derived terms

  • mas draw (extremely)
  • mas o'r glas (out of the blue)
  • mas tu fas (right outside)
  • maswr (outside-half)
  • tu fas (outside)
  • tu fewn tu fas (inside out)

Mutation

mas From the web:

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  • what mask should i wear
  • what mask are college coaches wearing
  • what master do you serve
  • what mask should i wear on a plane
  • what mason jars are worth money
  • what mass contains 6.0x10^23 atoms
  • what masks are best
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