vas

vas

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vasavi terms

Borrowed from Latin vās (“vessel”), from 1645–1655. Doublet of vase.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæs/, /ˈvæz/

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vas (plural vasa)

1. (anatomy) A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen.
2. (colloquial, specifically) The vas deferens.
   • 1838, John Burns, The Principles of Surgery, Volume Second; Comprising the Surgical Anatomy of the Human Body, and Its Application to Injuries, and Operations, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, page 421:

     The vesiculæ are bound down, or fixed, by the vesical fascia. They are about two inches long, and, at the broadest part, which is the middle, they are from five to seven-eighths of an inch broad. They are close by the outside of the vasa, and their extremities are two inches and a half distant, for they divaricate. At the gland they approach, but have the vasa deferentia interposed, so that they do not meet.

• ASV, AVS, AVs, Sav., sav

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

• IPA^(key): /fas/

vas (attributive vaste, comparative vaster, superlative vasste)

1. firm, tight

• vasu

From Latin vāsum. Compare Daco-Romanian vas.

vas n (plural vasi or vase)

1. vessel
2. kitchenware
3. bowl, basin
4. receptacle, container, jar

• vãsãrii

• vaz

• pheat
• blid
• cãtsãn

From Proto-North Sarawak [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.

vas

1. rice ((raw) seeds used as food)

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

Inherited from Old Catalan vas, from Latin vāsum, variant of vās.

vas m (plural vasos)

1. glass (a drinking glass)

   Synonyms: got, tassó

2. vessel

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vas

1. second-person singular present indicative of anar
2. (auxiliary, with infinitive) second-person singular present indicative of anar

• vares (auxiliary)

• “vas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “vas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “vas”, 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

Inherited from Middle French vas, from Old French vas, vais, from Latin vadis.

• IPA^(key): /va/ ~ /vɑ/, /va/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /vɔ/

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vas

1. second-person singular present indicative of aller

   Où vas-tu ? ― Where are you going?

2. (North America) first-person singular present indicative of aller

   J'vas voir jusqu'où la musique peut me m'ner. ― I'm going to see where music can take me.

vas f pl

1. feminine plural of van

vas

1. second-person singular present indicative of ir

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From Proto-Uralic *waśke. Cognate with Finnish vaski.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒʃ]

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• Hyphenation: vas
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

vas (usually uncountable, plural vasak)

1. iron (chemical element)

• vas in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• sav

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈvas/ [ˈfas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: vas

From Dutch vaas, from Middle French vase (Modern French vase), from Latin vas (“vessel”). Doublet of pasu.

• fas (nonstandard)
• pasu (Standard Malay)

vas (plural vas-vas)

1. vase (an upright open container used mainly for displaying flowers)

   Synonyms: guci, jambangan

Learned borrowing from Latin vas (“vessel”).

vas (plural vas-vas)

1. vas (a vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid)

• “vas” 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.

Classical collateral form of pre-Classical vāsum, from inherited from Proto-Italic *wāss, cognate with Umbrian vasus (“container”), but further origin uncertain, with no known cognates outside of Italic.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas]

vās n (genitive vāsis); third declension

1. vessel, container, dish
2. vase
3. utensil, instrument
4. (in the plural) equipment, apparatus
5. (often in the Vulgate) weapon
6. (New Latin, anatomy) a vas, vessel transporting bodily fluid
   • 1728, Auctore Hermanno Boerhaave, Praxis Medica sive Commentarium, page 314:

     Sanies clara. Quia materia tantum exit per illa parva vaſa non verò per magna ulcera , talia ſine causâ recrudeſcentia ſemper habent ſedem in pinguedine , cum verò pinguedo ſola ſit ſedes ulcerum hinc ibi facile fieri poſſunt.

     Of the presence of clear pus. Because pus only comes out through small vessels and not greater ulcers; when ulcers suddenly break open again they are always in the fat, and since fat is the only place ulcers may be found, we most expect them there.

In the singular this noun is third declension but in the plural it is second declension.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

See also vāsum for more descendants.

• ⇒ Spanish: vasija (from a diminutive form)

Borrowings:

• → English: vas
• → Old French:
  • Middle French: vase
    • French: vase (see there for further descendants)
    • → Dutch: vaas
      • Afrikaans: vaas
      • → Indonesian: vas
    • → Irish: vása
  • Norman: vase

Unsorted borrowings:

From Proto-Italic *woss, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to bind, pledge”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwas]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas]

vas m (genitive vadis); third declension

2. bail, surety

Third-declension noun.

• “vas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From French vache.

vas

1. cow

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

• IPA^(key): /ʋaːs/

vas n (definite singular vaset, uncountable)

1. nonsense, rubbish

• vås

• “vas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Norse ᚹᚨᛊ (was), from Proto-Germanic *was, first/third-person singular indicative past of *wesaną. Evolved to younger variant var. Compare vesa, es (vera, er).

vas

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

Inherited from Sanskrit वस् (vas).

vas (Pali name vasa)

2. to dwell
   • [c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[1] (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     वचवसवहादीनं उकारो वस्स ये ॥६॥
     वच, वस, वह इच्चेवमादीनं धातूनं वकारस्स उकारो होति य पच्चये परे । उच्चते, वुच्चति; वुस्सति; वुय्हति ॥

     6. Vacavasavahādīnaṃ ukāro vassa ye
     Vaca, vasa, vaha iccevamādīnaṃ dhātūnaṃ vakārassa ukāro hoti ya paccaye pare.Uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

     Vac, vas, vah etc. which have 'u' for 'va'
     Roots vac, vas, vah and so on etc. have 'u' from 'va' next to the ending 'ya'.
     Exx: uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.]

vas (Pali name vasa)

2. to clothe

vas m (plural vas)

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From Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

vas n

1. village

Inherited from Latin vāsum (“vessel”).

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• Rhymes: -as

vas n (plural vase)

1. vessel (including blood vessels), general term for receptacle or container (such as a bowl, basin, dish, bucket, etc.)
2. watercraft
3. cask
4. dish (specific type of food)

   Acest vas a fost odată servit la masa regală.

   This dish was once served to the royal table.

5. (in the plural) dishes (tableware to be washed)

   Am spălat deja vasele.

   I have already washed the dishes.

• vază

• IPA^(key): /ʋâːs/

vȃs (Cyrillic spelling ва̑с)

1. of you (genitive plural of tȋ (“you”))
2. you (accusative plural of tȋ (“you”))

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьsь

vas f (Cyrillic spelling вас)

1. (Chakavian, Kajkavian) alternative form of ves (“village”)

   Synonym: selo

• IPA^(key): /ʋas/

vas (Cyrillic spelling вас)

1. (archaic, Montenegro) all, complete, whole

   Synonyms: (Kajkavian) saj, (Standard) sav

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

From French vache.

vas

1. cow

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

From Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

• IPA^(key): /ʋáːs/

vȃs f

1. village (a rural settlement that is smaller than a mesto (a town/city))

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.

Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	vás
gen. sing.	vasí
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	vás	vasí	vasí
genitive (rodȋlnik)	vasí	vasí	vasí
dative (dajȃlnik)	vási	vaséma	vasém
accusative (tožȋlnik)	vás	vasí	vasí
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	vási	vaséh	vaséh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	vasjó	vaséma	vasmí

• “vas”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vàs

1. accusative/genitive/locative of vi

• IPA^(key): /ˈbas/ [ˈbas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: vas

vas

1. inflection of ir:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular voseo present indicative

From French vase.

• IPA^(key): /vɑːs/

vas c

1. a vase

   Vasen höll på att välta

   The vase almost fell over

• blomvas

• kruka (“pot”)

• vas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• sav