# طاس
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* طَاسَة (ṭāsa)

### Etymology

Shortening of طَسْت (ṭast), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tā́ćšti, from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti ~ *tétḱ-n̥ti, from *tetḱ- (“to create”). Doublet of طَشْت (ṭašt) and طَسْت (ṭast).

### Noun

طَاس • (ṭās) m (plural طَاسَات (ṭāsāt))
* bowl, cup

#### Descendants

* Andalusian Arabic: طَاس
** → Spanish: taza (see there for further descendants)
* → Adyghe: тас (tas)
* → Avar: тӏарс (tʼars)
* → Azerbaijani: tas
* → Bashkir: тас (tas)
* → Buryat: таас (taas)
* → Chechen: тас (tas)
* → Crimean Tatar: tas
* → Chuvash: таз (taz)
* → Dargwa: тӏас (ṭas)
* → Georgian: თასი (tasi)
* → Hausa: tāsā̀
** → Nupe: tása
* → Kabardian: тас (tas)
* → Northern Kurdish: tas
* → Lak: тӏяс (tʼaˤs)
* → Middle Armenian: թաս (tʻas)
** Armenian: թաս (tʻas)
* → Munji: [script needed] (tóso)
* →? Ossetian: тас (tas)
* Persian: طاس (tâs) (see there for further descendants)
* → Romani: tas
* → Swahili: tasa
* → Turkish: tas
* → Yidgha: [script needed] (tása)
* → Medieval Latin: tassa
** Emilian: tasa
** Italian: tazza (see there for further descendants)
** Old French: tasse
*** French: tasse (see there for further descendants)
*** Norman: tâsse, tâth' (Saint Ouën)
*** → Dutch: tas
*** → German: Tasse (see there for further descendants)
*** → German Low German: Tass
**** → Estonian: tass
*** → Middle English: *tasse
**** English: tass
**** Scots: tass
** Asturian: tasa
** Old Occitan: tassa
*** Catalan: tassa
*** Occitan: tassa
** Sardinian: taza
** → Lower Sorbian: tasa

### References

* Abajev, V. I. (1979) “²tas”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 234
* Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тас”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 224
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 157a
* Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 2044, pages 160–161

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian طاس (tâs, “cup, bowl”), itself from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl, cup”).

### Noun

طاس • (tas) (definite accusative طاسی (tası), plural طاسلر (taslar))
* cup, a concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material and with a handle
    Synonym: فنجان (fincan)
* bowl, a roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as soup
    Synonym: كاسه (kâse)

#### Derived terms

* آلتون طاس (altın tas, “golden cup”)
* باش طاسی (baş tası, “skull”)
* بورون طاسی (burun tası, “nose-pan”)
* حمام طاسی (hamam tası, “metal bowl used in baths”)
* دمیر طاس (demir tas, “helmet”)
* ساعت طاسی (saʼat tası, “bell in a striking clock”)
* سفر طاسی (sefer tası, “arrangement of several metal dishes”)
* صاپلو طاس (saplı tas, “bowl with a straight handle”)
* طاس اشكنجه‌سی (tas işkencesi, “torture of the hot bowl”)
* طاس باشلو (tas başlı, “whose head is bald”)
* طاس كبابی (tas kebâbı, “meat cooked in a metal bowl”)
* طاس كیدرمك (tas gidermek, “to put the hot bowl on the head”)
* طاسلانمق (taslanmak, “to become a cup”)
* طاسچه (tasçe, “small, metal cup”)
* قولپلو طاس (kulplu tas, “bowl with a curved handle”)
* كومش طاس (gümüş tas, “silver cup”)
* پشتو طاسی (pişto tası, “metal cup of a pistol”)
* پلاو طاسی (pilav tası, “rice bowl”)
* چوربا طاسی (çorba tası, “soup bowl”)
* یول طاسی (yol tası, “traveling cup”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tas
* → Albanian: tas
* → Bulgarian: тас (tas)
* → Greek: τάσι (tási)
* → Romanian: tas
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: тас
** Latin script: tas

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “طاس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 256
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tas1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4618
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طاس”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 309a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طاس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 790
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Poculum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1311
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طاس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3066
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طاس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1221

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* تاس (tâs)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [tɑːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɑːs]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɑːs]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰɑːs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰɔːs]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɒːs]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɔs]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic طاس (ṭās). Doublet of طشت (tašt), تشت (tašt).

#### Noun

طاس • (tâs) (plural طاس‌ها (tâs-hâ))
* (archaic) cup
* (archaic) bowl

##### Descendants

* Tajik: тос (tos)
** → Uzbek: tos
* → Baluchi: [script needed] (tās)
* → Bengali: তাস (taś)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ताश (tāś)
    Urdu: تاش (tāś)
* → Kyrgyz: таз (taz)
* → Nepali: तास (tās)
* → Old East Slavic: тазъ (tazŭ) (via Turkic)
** Belarusian: таз (taz)
** Russian: таз (taz)
** Ukrainian: таз (taz)
* → Ottoman Turkish: طاس (tas)
** Turkish: tas
** → Albanian: tas
** → Bulgarian: тас (tas)
** → Greek: τάσι (tási)
** → Romanian: tas
** → Serbo-Croatian:
*** Cyrillic script: тас
*** Latin script: tas
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਤਾਸ਼ (tāś), ਤਾਸ (tās)
    Shahmukhi script: تاش (tāś)
* → Tatar: тас (tas), таз (taz)
* → Turkmen: таз
* → Uyghur: داس (das)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tʾs /⁠tās⁠/, “die”).

#### Noun

طاس • (tâs) (plural طاس‌ها (tâs-hâ))
* die, dice

##### Derived terms

* طاس انداختن (tâs andâxtan)
* طاس‌بازی (tâs-bâzi)

#### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tās”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 82

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

طاس • (tâs)
* bald

##### Derived terms

* طاسی (tâsi)