bas

bas

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Basaa terms

bas

1. plural of ba

bas

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ba

• SBA, sab, sab., Abs, ABs, abs, abs., ABS, Sab., SAB, abs-, ASB, A.B.s, BSA

• 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

• baz (Luserna)

From Middle High German waʒ, from Old High German waʒ, 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 Old French bas, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Cognate with Welsh bas and Breton bas.

• IPA^(key): /baːz/

bas

1. shallow

From Italian basso (“low”).

bas

1. bass, bass singer

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /bɑs/

• Audio:

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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. inflection of bassen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /ba/ ~ /bɑ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [bɔ]

• Audio; “les bas”:

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

Inherited 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

From English bus.

• IPA^(key): [bas]

bas

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 (plural bas-bas)

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 (plural bas-bas)

1. (colloquial) boss, chief, superior

   Synonyms: bos, mandor, pemborong, pembesar, kepala

• baas (1901–1947)

• → Min Nan: 默氏, 默是.^[1]

• “bas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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 *baswǭ (“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
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

Borrowed from English bus.

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

bas (Jawi spelling بس, plural bas-bas)

1. bus

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

• “bas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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 3 March 2019.

bas

1. alternative form of base

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

bas m

1. (Guernsey, Jersey) low
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[2], page 539:

     Grànd maïr ou morte iaue,
     La lune au sud, il est basse iaue.

     Whether it be spring tides or neap tides, when the moon is due south it will be low water.

bas m (plural bas)

1. (Jersey) ground floor

• baish (Gascony)

From Late Latin bassus.

• Audio (Languedoc):

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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”).

• bos

bas f

1. palm (of the hand)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• bes

bas

1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

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

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “bas”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Possibly borrowed from Italian basso,^[1] or from French basse or German Bass,^[2] ultimately from Latin bassus.^[3] Compare Slovincian bas.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: bas

bas m inan (related adjective basowy)

1. (music) bass (the lowest male voice)
2. (colloquial) bass, bass guitar
   1. (more specifically, Kuyavia, in the plural) contrabass
3. (colloquial) liter of vodka

bas m pers

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

• → Kashubian: bas

• bas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “basy”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 268

Borrowed from Italian basso or French basse.

bas m (uncountable)

1. (music) bass

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

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 [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. tiger

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

From Old Irish bas.

• IPA^(key): /pas̪/

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

1. palm (of a hand)

   buailibh ur basan ― clap your hands

2. (dated) spoke

Borrowed from Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.

• IPA^(key): /bâs/

bȁs m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба̏с)

1. bass

• “bas”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /báːs/

bȃs m inan

1. bass (low frequency sound)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	bás
gen. sing.	bása
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bás	bása	bási
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bása	básov	básov
dative (dajȃlnik)	básu	básoma	básom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bás	bása	báse
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	básu	básih	básih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	básom	básoma	bási

Borrowed from German Bass. Compare Kashubian bas and Polish bas.

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

bas m inan (related adjective basôwy)

1. (music) bass, double bass (largest stringed instrument of the violin family)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “bãs”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[4] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 17

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 Late 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, not deep

   Paid â neidio i mewn i ben bas y pwll.

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

2. insubstantial, superficial
3. base, worthless

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

bas m (plural basau)

1. base, basis, foundation

   Synonyms: sail, sawd, sylfaen

   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.

2. (chemistry) base

   Synonym: sawd

   Antonym: asid

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

• alcali (“alkali”)
• asid (“acid”)

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”)

Cf. Irish bás (“death”).

bas f (plural basau)

1. swoon, rapture, faint
2. fit
3. death

   Synonyms: marwolaeth, tranc