cabaz

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz. Compare Catalan cabàs, Old Occitan cabas.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈba(j)s/ [kaˈba(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈba(j)s/ [kaˈba(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaˈba(j)ʃ/ [kaˈba(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈbaʃ/ [kɐˈβaʃ]

Noun

cabaz m (plural cabazes)

1. basket (container)

   Synonyms: cesta, cesto

Derived terms

• cabazáda

Further reading

• “cabaz”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cabaz”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حقه باز (hokkabaz), from Persian حقه باز (“player at cups-and-balls; juggler; pick-pocket; plotter, impostor”), from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “cup of a juggler”).

Noun

cabaz m (plural cabazi)

1. (Moldavia (region), obsolete) a joker (man)
   • 1883, Vasile Alecsandri, Cinel-Cinel:

     Ian să vedem ce-mi mai scrie cabazul cel de Tachi?

     Let's see what that joker of Tachi is writing to me.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cabaz	cabazul		cabazi	cabazii
genitive-dative	cabaz	cabazului		cabazi	cabazilor
vocative	cabazule			cabazilor

Noun

cabaz n (plural cabazuri)

1. (Moldavia (region), obsolete) a joke, a farce
   • 1882, Mihai Eminescu, Timpul‎:

     Timur avea un hoge caraghioz pe care îl chema Nastratin, identic cu acela ale cărui taclale și cabazuri le-a cules și le-a pus în versuri răposatul Anton Pann.

     Timur had a funny hodja named Nasreddin, identical to the one whose conversations and jokes were collected and put into verses by the late Anton Pann.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cabaz	cabazul		cabazuri	cabazurile
genitive-dative	cabaz	cabazului		cabazuri	cabazurilor
vocative	cabazule			cabazurilor