nas

Clipping of English Nasioi or abbreviation of English Naasioi.

nas

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nasioi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nasioi terms

nas

1. three

• IPA^(key): /nas/

nas

1. banana

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

Inherited from Old Catalan nas, from Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnas]

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nas m (plural nassos)

1. nose

• In Algherese, the primary plural is nasos.

• “nas”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “nas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “nas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 25

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + feminine plural article as (“the”).

• IPA^(key): /nɐːs̺/

nas f pl (masculine sg no, feminine sg na, masculine plural nos)

1. in the

From a mutation of as.

nas f (accusative)

1. alternative form of as (“them”, feminine plural)

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

• as
• las
• nos

From contraction of adverb non (“not”) + feminine plural article as (“the”).

• IPA^(key): /nɐːs̺/

Borrowed from English nurse.

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

nâs m or f (plural nâs-nâs)

1. nurse

Borrowed from English nurse.

• IPA^(key): /nas/

nas

1. nurse

Spatial inflection of nas

→○	illative	nasse
○	inessive	nas
○→	elative	nast

Rebracketing of as preceded by the illative marker *-Vn.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑsːɑ/, [ˈnɑs̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑs/, [ˈnɑʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -ɑsː, -ɑs
• Hyphenation: nas
• Homophone: nasse

nas (+ illative or allative)

1. (of time) up to, until
2. (of distance or motion) all the way to

nas (+ elative or ablative)

1. (of time) ever since
2. (of distance or motion) all the way from

• saa, nasse, nast, asse, as, ast

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 336

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnas]

nās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of nō

Akin to Italian naso, from Latin nasus.

nas

1. nose

• IPA^(key): /nas/

nas

1. genitive/accusative/locative of my

From Latin nasus.

nas

1. nose

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈnas̠/

nas

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of nësen

Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

• IPA^(key): /nɑːs/

nas (comparative nastir, superlative herî nas or tewrî nas, Arabic spelling ناس)

1. acquainted, familiar

• nasîn

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “nas”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume 2, London: Transnational Press, page 54

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnas/

nas

1. what about

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): /ˈnas/

nas m

1. nose

• nasal

• IPA^(key): /ˈnas/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: nas

nas

1. genitive/accusative/locative of my

• Hyphenation: nas

nas f pl

1. contraction of em as (“in the”): feminine plural of no
   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo, Rocco, page 71:

     Gosto de sentir uma brisa saudável nas minhas partes, obrigado.

     I like to feel a healthy breeze on my parts, thank you.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

nas

2. alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong

   Façam-nas. ― Make them.

   Farão-nas. ― They will make them.

• This form is very rarely used in spoken Brazilian Portuguese, where nominative forms are preferred over third-person direct object pronouns (which, when used, are typically placed before verbs).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

• nes (Pronz)

From Proto-Nuristani *nā́s, altered from Proto-Indo-Iranian *náHs, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /nas/

nas (Pashki)^[1]

1. nose

Inherited from Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -as

• Audio:

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nas n (plural nasuri)

1. nose

• năsut

• nară
• nănău (slang)
• bornău (slang)

• nes (Puter)

From Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

nas m

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) nose

From Middle Irish níd as (“a thing that is”); compare Irish nios.

• IPA^(key): /nəs̪/, /nas̪/

nas

1. Precedes the comparative form of an adjective or an adverb.

   glic → nas glice ― wise → wiser

   mòr → nas motha ― big → bigger

• Only used in the present and future tenses. In the past tense and the conditional mood, na bu and na b' are used.
• Lenites initial f if followed by a vowel:

  fuar → nas fhuaire ― cold → colder

• as

• IPA^(key): /nâːs/

nȃs (Cyrillic spelling на̑с)

1. of us (genitive plural of jȃ (“I”))
2. us (accusative plural of jȃ (“I”))

From Proto-Hmong *naŋᴮ (“mouse, rat”). Related to Proto-Mien *nauᴮ (“id”), though the difference in rime is unexplained.^[1] Probably not related to Thai หนู (nǔu, “id”).

• IPA^(key): /na˩/

nas (classifier: tus)

1. rat
2. (generally) rodent

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 136.