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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæts/
• Rhymes: -æts

Noun

bats

1. plural of bat

Verb

bats

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

Adjective

bats (comparative more bats, superlative most bats)

1. (informal) Mad, insane.

   You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bast, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bast, stab, tabs

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?bats/
• Rhymes: -ats

Verb

bats

1. second-person singular present indicative form of batre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ts

Verb

bats

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

Anagrams

• bast

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba/
• Homophones: bat, bât, bas

Verb

bats

1. inflection of battre:
   1. first/second-person singular indicative present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bats/

Noun

bats

1. (anatomy) buttock

Spanish

Noun

bats m pl

1. plural of bat

Volapük

Noun

bats

1. plural of bat