vas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vas"

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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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

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 (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

 vas on Hungarian Wikipedia

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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.