bas

bas

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Basaa.

bas

1. plural of ba

bas

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

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

• IPA^(key): [bɑs]

From Dutch bas, borrowed from Middle French basse, from Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.

bas (plural basse, diminutive bassie)

1. bass (low frequencies of sound)
2. (music) bass (instrument)
3. (music) a bass singer

From Dutch bast, from Middle Dutch bast, from Old Dutch *bast, from Proto-West Germanic *bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz.

bas (plural baste, diminutive bastjie)

1. bark, rind
2. fruit husk
3. bast

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

• balas

• Hyphenation: ba‧las

bas

1. sand

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bas.

• baz (Luserna)

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.

bas (dative bassame)

1. (Sette Comuni, interrogative) what, which

   Bas hasto khöt? ― What did you say?

   Bas khösto? ― What are you saying?

• von bassame

• “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

From Italian basso (“low”).

bas

1. bass, bass singer

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /bɑs/

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• Hyphenation: bas
• Rhymes: -ɑs
• Homophone: Bas

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

bas m (plural bassen, diminutive basje n)

1. bass (instrument)
2. bass (low frequencies of sound)
3. bass (singing voice)

• basgitaar
• basklarinet
• baslijn
• bassist
• contrabas

• → Indonesian: bas (“bass”)
• → Papiamentu: bas
• → Sranan Tongo: bas

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bas

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

• IPA^(key): /ba/, /bɑ/

• Audio (les bas)

  (file)

• Homophones: bât, bâts (general), bat, bats (some speakers)

From Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus.

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

1. low
2. bass

bas

1. low

bas m (plural bas)

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

Shortened from bas-de-chausses.

bas m (plural bas)

1. stocking

• bas à jour
• bas autofixant
• bas couture
• bas résille
• bas relief

• “bas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ABS

From Late Latin bassus.

bas

1. low

• alt

Borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bâs/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bâs]

bâs f (plural bâs-bâs)

1. bus

• IPA^(key): [ˈbas]
• Rhymes: -bas, -as, -s
• Hyphenation: bas

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

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.

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 bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”); possibly also Old High German basa ("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base (“aunt, cousin”)). Doublet of bos.

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

1. (colloquial) boss, chief, superior

   Synonyms: bos, mandor, pemborong, pembesar, kepala

• → Min Nan: 默氏, 默是.[1]

• “bas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /bˠasˠ/

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

bas f (genitive singular baise, nominative plural basa)

1. sea bass

• doingean mara

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 *baswōn (“father's sister, aunt, cousin”).

bas m (genitive singular bas, nominative plural basanna)

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

bas f (genitive singular baise, nominative plural basa)

1. Alternative form of bos

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bas/
• Rhymes: -as, -bas

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

1. bus

• bis (nonstandard Indonesian)
• bus (standard Indonesian)

Borrowed from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus.

• baas, bace, base, bass, basse

• IPA^(key): /baːs/, /bas/

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.

• English: base, bass
• Scots: base

• “bā̆s, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

bas

1. Alternative form of base

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

bas m

1. (Guernsey, Jersey) low

bas m (plural bas)

1. (Jersey) ground floor

• baish (Gascon)

From Late Latin bassus.

• Audio (Languedocien)

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

1. low

   Antonyms: naut, aut

From Late Latin bassus.

bas m (oblique and nominative feminine singular base)

1. low (near the ground)

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

• IPA^(key): /bas/

From Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *gʷost-eh₂ ~ *gʷosdʰ-eh₂ (“branch”).

bas f

1. palm (of the hand)

• bos

• lám (“hand”)

• Irish: bos, bas
  • → Yola: baush, bash
• Scottish Gaelic: bas

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bas

1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

• bes

From Pre-Palauan *baca, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *baʀah.

bas

1. ember

From Urdu بس‎ (bas), from Persian بس‎ (bas, “enough”).

• IPA^(key): /bas/

bas (Perso-Arabic spelling بس)

1. enough
2. in short
3. okay

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

Possibly borrowed from Italian basso,[1] or possible from French basse or German Bass,[2] ultimately from Latin bassus.[3] Doublet of basetla.

• IPA^(key): /bas/

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: bas

bas m inan

1. (music) bass (the lowest male voice)
2. (colloquial, music) bass, bass guitar
3. (colloquial) liter of vodka

bas m pers

1. (music) bass (a person who sings in the bass register)

• bas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Italian basso or French basse.

bas m (uncountable)

1. (music) bass

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

From Late Latin bassus.

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

1. (Vallader) deep, low

From Proto-Turkic *bars.

bas (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])

1. tiger

Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “bas”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow

From Old Irish bas.

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

1. palm (of a hand)

   buailibh ur basan - clap your hands

2. (dated) spoke

From Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.

• IPA^(key): /bâs/

bȁs m (Cyrillic spelling ба̏с)

1. bass

• “bas” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /báːs/

bȃs m inan

1. bass (low frequency sound)

bas

1. aunt

From Latin basis.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːs/

• audio

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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

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

• basvektor

bas c

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

• arbetsledare

• basa

bas c

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

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

• bas in Svensk ordbok.

• pas

bas

1. price

Possibly from Dutch bassin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbas]

bas

1. a washbasin

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From English bus.

bas

1. bus

• IPA^(key): /ˈbas/

From French basse, from Italian basso, from Latin bassus.

bas (definite accusative bası, plural baslar)

1. (music) bass

bas

1. second-person singular imperative of basmak

• IPA^(key): /baːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

From Middle Welsh bas, from Old French bas, from Latin bassus (“short, low”).

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

1. shallow

   Paid â neidio i mewn i ben bas y pwll.

   Don't jump into the shallow end of the pool.

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

bas m (plural basau)

1. base

   Y nod yw taro'r bêl gyda'r bat a rhedeg i gyrraedd cynifer ag sydd modd o'r basau nes cyrraedd yn ôl i'r bas cychwynnol.

   The aim is to hit the ball with the bat and run in order to reach as many of the bases as possible until you arrive back at the initial base.

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

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

bas m (plural basau)

1. (music) bass

   Mae e'n canu bas.

   He sings bass.

• bas dwbl (“double bass”)