# nas
## Abenaki
### Numeral

nas
* three

## Big Nambas
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nas/

### Noun

nas
* banana

### References

* Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan nas, from Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnas]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nas m (plural nassos)
* nose

#### Usage notes

* In Algherese, the primary plural is nasos.

#### Derived terms

* nas xato
* nassada
* nassal
* nassejar
* nassut
* tenir nassos

### References

* “nas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “nas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “nas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “nas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 25

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + feminine plural article as (“the”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɐːs̺/

#### Contraction

nas f pl (masculine sg no, feminine sg na, masculine plural nos)
* in the

### Etymology 2

From a mutation of as.

#### Pronoun

nas f (accusative)
* Alternative form of as (“them”, feminine plural)

##### Usage notes

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

##### Related terms

* as
* las
* nos

### Etymology 3

From contraction of adverb non (“not”) + feminine plural article as (“the”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɐːs̺/

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English nurse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nâs/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [nâs]

### Noun

nâs m or f (plural nâs-nâs)
* nurse

## Iban
### Etymology

Borrowed from English nurse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nas/

### Noun

nas
* nurse

## Ingrian

Spatial inflection of nas :
| →○ | illative | nasse |
| ○ | inessive | nas |
| ○→ | elative | nast |

### Etymology

Rebracketing of as preceded by the illative marker *-Vn.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈnɑsːɑ/, [ˈnɑs̠ː]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈnɑs/, [ˈnɑʒ̥]
* Rhymes: -ɑsː, -ɑs
* Hyphenation: nas
* Homophone: nasse

### Postposition

nas (+ illative or allative)
* (of time) up to, until
* (of distance or motion) all the way to
nas (+ elative or ablative)
* (of time) ever since
* (of distance or motion) all the way from

#### Synonyms

* saa, nasse, nast, asse, as, ast

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 336

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnaːs/, [ˈnäːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnas/, [ˈnäs]

### Verb

nās
* second-person singular present active indicative of nō

## Lombard
### Etymology

Akin to Italian naso, from Latin nasus.

### Noun

nas
* nose

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nas/

### Pronoun

nas
* genitive/accusative/locative of my

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin nasus.

### Noun

nas
* nose

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈnas̠/

### Verb

nas
* first/third-person singular past indicative of nësen

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɑːs/

### Adjective

nas (comparative nastir, superlative herî nas or nastirîn, Arabic spelling ناس)
* acquainted, familiar

#### Derived terms

* -nas
* nas kirin
* nasname
* nasyar
* nasî

#### Related terms

* nasîn

### References

* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “nas”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume 2, London: Transnational Press, page 54

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈnas/

### Adverb

nas
* what about

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnas/

### Noun

nas m
* nose

#### Related terms

* nasal

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnas/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: nas

### Pronoun

nas
* genitive/accusative/locative of my

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /nas/
* (Brazil) IPA: /nas/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /naʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /nɐʃ/
* Hyphenation: nas

### Etymology 1
#### Contraction

nas f pl
* Contraction of em as (“in the”): feminine plural of no
** 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo, Rocco, page 71:Gosto de sentir uma brisa saudável nas minhas partes, obrigado.I like to feel a healthy breeze on my parts, thank you.

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

nas
* Alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong
    Façam-nas. ― Make them.
    Farão-nas. ― They will make them.

##### Usage notes

* This form is very rarely used in spoken Brazilian Portuguese, where nominative forms are preferred over third-person direct object pronouns (which, when used, are typically placed before verbs).

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

## Prasuni
### Alternative forms

* nes (Pronz)

### Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *nā́s, altered from Proto-Indo-Iranian *náHs, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nas/

### Noun

nas (Pashki)
* nose

### References

* ↑ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “nâs”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -as
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nas n (plural nasuri)
* nose

#### Derived terms

* da nas
* da peste nas
* își lua nasul la purtare
* își vedea lungul nasului
* năsos
* năsuc
* sub nas
* trage pe nas

#### Related terms

* năsut

#### See also

* nară
* nănău (slang)
* bornău (slang)

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* nes (Puter)

### Etymology

From Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.

### Noun

nas m
* (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) nose

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish níd as (“a thing that is”); compare Irish nios.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nəs̪/, /nas̪/

### Particle

nas
* Precedes the comparative form of an adjective or an adverb.
    glic → nas glice ― wise → wiser
    mòr → nas motha ― big → bigger

#### Usage notes

* Only used in the present and future tenses. In the past tense and the conditional mood, na bu and na b' are used.
* Lenites initial f if followed by a vowel:
    fuar → nas fhuaire ― cold → colder

#### See also

* as

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nâːs/

### Pronoun

nȃs (Cyrillic spelling на̑с)
* of us (genitive plural of jȃ (“I”))
* us (accusative plural of jȃ (“I”))

#### Declension
## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *naŋᴮ (“mouse, rat”). Related to Proto-Mien *nauᴮ (“id”), though the difference in rime is unexplained. Probably not related to Thai หนู (nǔu, “id”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /na˩/

### Noun

nas (classifier: tus)
* rat
* (generally) rodent

#### Derived terms

* nas ciav (“zebra squirrel, chipmunk”)
* nas hooj twm (“red-bellied squirrel”)
* nas kauv (“a type of small mouse with light brown fur and white belly”)
* nas kos (“groundhog, bamboo rat, gopher”)
* nas kos dej (“beaver”)
* nas ncuav (“squirrel”)
* nas tsuag (“mouse”)

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 136.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 58; 277.