baas

From Dutch baas. Doublet of boss.

baas (plural baases)

1. (South Africa) An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address.
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 40:

     ‘That's not what I'm complaining about, Baas,’ said Gordon.

   • 1932, George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, Hesperus Press Limited 1961, p. 11:

     ‘Excuse me, baas,’ she said, 'you have knowing eyes.'

Inflected forms.

baas

1. plural of baa

baas

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

• AABs, BSAA, Basa, SABA, Saab, Saba, abas, basa, saba, à bas

From Dutch baas (“boss”), from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic *baswô.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːs/, [bɑːs]

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baas (plural base, diminutive basie)

1. boss

• oubaas

• → English: baas

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

baas

1. Romanization of ᬩᬳᬲ᭄

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

• IPA^(key): /baːs/

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• Hyphenation: baas
• Rhymes: -aːs

baas m (plural bazen, diminutive baasje n, feminine bazin)

1. boss, chief, superior
2. employer, manager
3. (Belgium) strong or tough guy
4. (video games) boss
5. (figuratively) crack, master, expert at something
6. (figuratively) whopper, large one in its kind
7. (diminutive: baasje) fellow, boy, especially a youngling or novice

• Afrikaans: baas
  • → English: baas
• Negerhollands: baas, baes
• → Arawak: basia
• → Aukan: basi
• → Belizean Creole: baas
• → Caribbean Hindustani: bás
• → Caribbean Javanese: bas
• → English: boss
  • → Danish: boss
  • → French: boss
  • → Indonesian: bos
  • → Italian: boss
  • → Japanese: ボス (bosu)
• → Guyanese Creole English: baas
• → Indonesian: bas (“boss”)
  • → Petjo: bas
• → Jamaican Creole: baas
• → Kwinti: basia
• → Papiamentu: bas, baas, ba
• → Saramaccan: bási
• → Sranan Tongo: basi
  • → Galibi Carib: ba`si
  • → Trió: paasi
• → West Frisian: baas

From Spanish bajar.

báas

1. diminish, lessen

baas

1. coffee dreg (left on a cup or kettle)

baas

1. Alternative form of bas

baas

1. Alternative form of base