# vas
## Translingual
### Symbol

vas
* (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: /ˈvæs/, /ˈvæz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

vas (plural vasa)
* (anatomy) A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen.
* (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: /fas/

### Adjective

vas (attributive vaste, comparative vaster, superlative vasste)
* firm, tight

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* vasu

### Etymology

From Latin vāsum. Compare Daco-Romanian vas.

### Noun

vas n (plural vasi or vase)
* vessel
* kitchenware
* bowl, basin
* 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
* rice ((raw) seeds used as food)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbas]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvas]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

vas m (plural vasos)
* glass (a drinking glass)
    Synonyms: got, tassó
* vessel

##### Derived terms

* envasar
* vas de precipitats
* vas sanguini

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

vas
* second-person singular present indicative of anar
* (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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /va/ ~ /vɑ/, /va/
* (Canada) IPA: /vɔ/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

vas
* second-person singular present indicative of aller
    Où vas-tu ? ― Where are you going?
* (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
* feminine plural of van

### Verb

vas
* second-person singular present indicative of ir

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒʃ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vas
* Rhymes: -ɒʃ

### Noun

vas (usually uncountable, plural vasak)
* iron (chemical element)

#### Derived terms

* vasal
* vasas
* kovácsoltvas
* ócskavas
* vasbeton
* vascső
* vasfüggöny
* vasgyár
* vaskor
* vasmacska
* vasreszelék
* vasszűz
* vastaps
* vasút
* vasvilla
* addig üsd a vasat, amíg meleg
* kovácsolt vas
* nincs egy vasa sem / egy vasa sincs
* vasorrú bába

### Further reading

* vas in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

### Anagrams

* sav

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfas]
* Hyphenation: vas
* Rhymes: -as

#### Noun

vas (plural)
* vase: An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers
    Synonym: jambangan

##### Alternative forms

* fas (nonstandard)
* pasu (Johor-Riau)

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin vas (“vessel”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfas]
* Hyphenation: vas
* Rhymes: -as

#### Noun

vas (plural)
* vas: a vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen

### 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.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Classical collateral form of pre-Classical vāsum, from Proto-Italic *wāss, cognate with Umbrian vasus (“container”), but further origin uncertain, with no known cognates outside of Italic.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯aːs/, [ˈu̯äːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvas/, [ˈväs]

#### Noun

vās n (genitive vāsis); third declension
* vessel, container, dish
* vase
* utensil, instrument
* (in the plural) equipment, apparatus
* (often in the Vulgate) weapon

##### 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).

##### Derived terms

* vās muliebre
* vasa vasorum
* 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)
** Norman: vase
** → Dutch: vaas
*** Afrikaans: vaas
*** → Indonesian: vas
** → Irish: vása
Unsorted borrowings
* → Albanian: vazo
* → Czech: váza
* → Faroese: vasi
* → Icelandic: vasi
* → Northern Kurdish: vazo
* → Latvian: vāze
* → Lithuanian: vaza
* → 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: /ˈu̯as/, [ˈu̯äs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvas/, [ˈväs]

#### Noun

vas m (genitive vadis); third declension
* bail, surety

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* praes
* vadimōnium
* vador

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vās, vāsis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 655
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vas, vadis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 655

### Further reading

* “vas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “vas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "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 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
* cow

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋaːs/

### Noun

vas n (definite singular vaset, uncountable)
* 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
* first/third-person singular indicative past of vesa

## Pali
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit वस् (vas).

### Root

vas (Pali name vasa)
* to dwell
** [c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (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

* ajjhāvasati
* vasati
* vussati
* vāsa
* vāsanā

### Root

vas (Pali name vasa)
* to clothe

#### Derived terms

* vasati

## Piedmontese
### Noun

vas m (plural vas)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Polabian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

### Noun

vas n
* village

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vāsum (“vessel”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -as

### Noun

vas n (plural vase)
* vessel (including blood vessels), general term for receptacle or container (such as a bowl, basin, dish, bucket, etc.)
* watercraft
* cask
* dish (specific type of food)
    Acest vas a fost odată servit la masa regală.This dish was once served to the royal table.
* (in the plural) dishes (tableware to be washed)
    Am spălat deja vasele.I have already washed the dishes.

#### See also

* vază

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋâːs/

#### Pronoun

vȃs (Cyrillic spelling ва̑с)
* of you (genitive plural of tȋ (“you”))
* you (accusative plural of tȋ (“you”))

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vьsь

#### Noun

vas f (Cyrillic spelling вас)
* (Chakavian, Kajkavian) Alternative form of ves (“village”).
    Synonym: selo

#### 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
* cow

### References

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

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vьsь.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋáːs/

#### Noun

vȃs f
* village (a rural settlement that is smaller than a mesto (a town/city))

##### Inflection
#### 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
* accusative/genitive/locative of vi

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbas/ [ˈbas]
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: vas

### Verb

vas
* inflection of ir:
** second-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular voseo present indicative

## Swedish
### Etymology

From French vase.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɑːs/

### Noun

vas c
* a vase
    Vasen höll på att vältaThe vase almost fell over

#### 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