vas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vas"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Vasavi.

Symbol

vas

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vasavi terms

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæs/, /ˈvæz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• vas-
• vasal
• vasa vasorum
• vas cath
• vascular
• vasculitis
• vas deferens
• vasectomy
• vas efferens
• vasiform
• vaso-
• vasoconstriction
• vasodilation
• vasomotor
• vas rectum

Anagrams

• ASV, AVS, AVs, Sav., sav

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fas/

Adjective

vas (attributive vaste, comparative vaster, superlative vasste)

1. firm, tight

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vasu

Etymology

From Latin vāsum. Compare Daco-Romanian vas.

Noun

vas n (plural vasi or vase)

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

Derived terms

• vãsãrii

Related terms

• vaz

See also

• pheat
• blid
• cãtsãn

Bintulu

Etymology

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

Noun

vas

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

vas m (plural vasos)

1. glass (a drinking glass)

   Synonyms: got, tassó

2. vessel

Derived terms

• envasar
• vas de precipitats
• vas sanguini

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vas

1. second-person singular present indicative of anar
2. (auxiliary, with infinitive) second-person singular present indicative of anar used to form periphrastic past

   Vas venir de visita. ― You came to visit.

Alternative forms

• vares (auxiliary)

References

• “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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Verb

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.

Galician

Adjective

vas f pl

1. feminine plural of van

Verb

vas

1. second-person singular present indicative of ir

Hungarian

Chemical element
Fe
Previous: mangán (Mn)
Next: kobalt (Co)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒʃ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: vas
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Noun

vas (usually uncountable, plural vasak)

1. iron (chemical element)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	vas	vasak
accusative	vasat	vasakat
dative	vasnak	vasaknak
instrumental	vassal	vasakkal
causal-final	vasért	vasakért
translative	vassá	vasakká
terminative	vasig	vasakig
essive-formal	vasként	vasakként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	vasban	vasakban
superessive	vason	vasakon
adessive	vasnál	vasaknál
illative	vasba	vasakba
sublative	vasra	vasakra
allative	vashoz	vasakhoz
elative	vasból	vasakból
delative	vasról	vasakról
ablative	vastól	vasaktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	vasé	vasaké
non-attributive possessive – plural	vaséi	vasakéi

Possessive forms of vas

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	vasam	vasaim
2nd person sing.	vasad	vasaid
3rd person sing.	vasa	vasai
1st person plural	vasunk	vasaink
2nd person plural	vasatok	vasaitok
3rd person plural	vasuk	vasaik

Derived terms

• vasal
• vasas

Compound words

• kovácsoltvas
• ócskavas
• vasbeton
• vascső
• vasfüggöny
• vasgyár
• vaskor
• vasmacska
• vasreszelék
• vasszűz
• vastaps
• vasút
• vasvilla

Expressions

• addig üsd a vasat, amíg meleg
• kovácsolt vas
• nincs egy vasa sem / egy vasa sincs
• vasorrú bába

Further reading

• 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.

Anagrams

• sav

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• fas (nonstandard)
• pasu (Standard Malay)

Noun

vas (plural vas-vas)

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

   Synonyms: guci, jambangan

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin vas (“vessel”).

Noun

vas (plural vas-vas)

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

Derived terms

• vas deferen
• vas eferen

Further reading

• “vas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Declension

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

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

	singular	plural
nominative	vās	vāsa
genitive	vāsis	vāsōrum
dative	vāsī	vāsīs
accusative	vās	vāsa
ablative	vāse	vāsīs
vocative	vās	vāsa

Derived terms

• vās muliebre
• vāsa vāsōrum
• vāsārium
• vāsculum

Descendants

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:

• → Albanian: vazo
• → Czech: váza
• → Faroese: vasi
• → Icelandic: vasi
• → Latvian: vāze
• → Lithuanian: vaza
• → Northern Kurdish: vazo
• → Plautdietsch: Wos
• → Polish: waza
• → Slovak: váza
• → Slovene: vaza
• → Uzbek: vaza
• → Yiddish: וואַזע (vaze)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vas m (genitive vadis); third declension

2. bail, surety

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vas	vadēs
genitive	vadis	vadum
dative	vadī	vadibus
accusative	vadem	vadēs
ablative	vade	vadibus
vocative	vas	vadēs

Derived terms

• praes
• vadimōnium
• vador

See also

• arrha
• fīdūcia
• pignus
• spōnsiō
• spōnsus
• vōtum

Further reading

• “vās¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “văs²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vās¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vas²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "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 ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French vache.

Noun

vas

1. cow

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋaːs/

Noun

vas n (definite singular vaset, uncountable)

1. nonsense, rubbish

Synonyms

• vås

References

• “vas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

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).

Verb

vas

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

Pali

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit वस् (vas).

Root

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.]

Derived terms

Verbs

• ajjhāvasati
• vasati
• vussati

Nouns

• vāsa
• vāsanā

Pali terms belonging to the root vas (dwell) (0 c, 5 e)

Root

vas (Pali name vasa)

2. to clothe

Derived terms

Verbs

• vasati

Piedmontese

Noun

vas m (plural vas)

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Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

Noun

vas n

1. village

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vāsum (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -as

Noun

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.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vas	vasul		vase	vasele
genitive-dative	vas	vasului		vase	vaselor
vocative	vasule			vaselor

See also

• vază

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋâːs/

Pronoun

vȃs ? (Cyrillic spelling ва̑с)

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

Declension

Declension of vas

	singular	plural
nominative	tȋ	vȋ
genitive	tȅbe, te	vȃs
dative	tȅbi, ti	vȁma, vam
accusative	tȅbe, te	vȃs
vocative	ti	vȋ
locative	tȅbi	vȁma
instrumental	tȍbōm	vȁma

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

Noun

vas f (Cyrillic spelling вас)

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

   Synonym: selo

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋas/

Adjective

vas (Cyrillic spelling вас)

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

   Synonyms: (Kajkavian) saj, (Standard) sav

Further reading

• “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

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French vache.

Noun

vas

1. cow

References

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

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋáːs/

Noun

vȃs f

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

Declension

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

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

vàs

1. accusative/genitive/locative of vi

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vas

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

Swedish

en vas med blommor [a vase of [with] flowers]

Etymology

From French vase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑːs/

Noun

vas c

1. a vase

   Vasen höll på att välta

   The vase almost fell over

Declension

Declension of vas

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vas	vas
	definite	vasen	vasens
plural	indefinite	vaser	vasers
	definite	vaserna	vasernas

Derived terms

• blomvas

See also

• kruka (“pot”)

References

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

Anagrams

• sav