different between vasa vs vast

English

Noun

vasa (plural vasas)

1. A parrot of a variety that is native to Madagascar.

Anagrams

• AAVs, Sava

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?/, [???s??]
• Rhymes: -?s?
• Syllabification: va?sa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *vasa, borrowed from Proto-Iranian *wacáh (“yearling calf”).

Noun

vasa

1. fawn, calf (of eg. a deer, elk or antelope)

Usage notes

The calf of a cow is never vasa, but the diminutive form of it, vasikka.

Declension

Derived terms

• vasikka
• vasoa

Compounds

• hirvenvasa
• lattiavasa
• peuranvasa

See also

• kili
• pentu
• poikanen
• varsa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Swedish vase (Finnish Swedish vasa).

Noun

vasa

1. joist

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

vas +? -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v???]
• Hyphenation: va?sa

Noun

vasa

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of vas

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a?.sa/, [?u?ä?s?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.sa/, [?v??s??]

Noun

v?sa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of v?sum
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of v?s

References

• vasa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

vasa

1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic (compare Fijian wasa).

Noun

vasa

1. ocean

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?s??/

Interjection

vasa

1. huh? what did you say? contraction of vad sade du/ni

Synonyms

• hursa
• va

References

Anagrams

• avas, sava

Zou

Etymology

From va (“bird”) +? sa (“meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?.sa??/

Noun

vasá

1. bird meat

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64

English

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA^(key): /v??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væst/
• Rhymes: -??st

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Translations

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

     they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?stus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vast/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bast/

Adjective

vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)

1. vast, wide

Related terms

• vastitud

Further reading

• “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight
2. fixed, not moving or changing

3. stuck, unable to get out

4. (chemistry) in the solid state

5. (botany) perennial

6. (of a telephone) using a landline

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vas

Adverb

vast

1. surely, certainly

   Synonym: zeker

2. (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
2. imperative of vasten

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).

Adverb

vast

1. maybe, possibly
2. recently, just, now

Derived terms

References

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vasten

Preposition

vast

1. against

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

Romani

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).

Noun

vast m (plural vasta)

1. (anatomy) hand

Romanian

Etymology

From French vaste, from Latin vastus.

Adjective

vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)

1. vast

Declension

Related terms

• vastitate

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)