different between lask vs bask

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??sk/, /læsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

lask (plural lasks)

1. Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:

     A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].

   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, Folio Society 2007, p. 150:

     The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].

Anagrams

• Salk, alks

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) laskõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laskedak.

Verb

lask

1. let

English

Etymology

From Old Norse baðask (“to take a bath”, literally “to bathe oneself”), mediopassive form from underlying baða (“to bathe”) + sik (“oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *baþ?n? and *sek. Doublet of English bathe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??sk/, /bæsk/
• enPR: b?sk, IPA^(key): /bæsk/
• Homophone: Basque (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -æsk

Verb

bask (third-person singular simple present basks, present participle basking, simple past and past participle basked)

1. To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

     […] basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave.

2. (figuratively) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").

Hyponyms

• (to be exposed to the sun's heat): apricate, sun

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• kabs

Albanian

Noun

bask

1. Basque (member of a people)

Swedish

Noun

bask c

1. Basque; member of people

Declension

Related terms

• baskiska
• baskisk
• Baskien

Anagrams

• baks

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Compare basa.

Pronunciation

• (Burträsk, Skellefteå, Lövånger) IPA^(key): [bæ?sk]

Rhymes: -àsk

Verb

bask (preterite baskä)

1. To wash.

Synonyms

• bøtj
• rääns
• tjwöött

References