# bash
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæʃ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æʃ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)

#### Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
* (informal) To strike heavily.
    The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
    If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.
** 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole.
* (informal) To collide; used with into or together.
    Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
** 1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder, page 74:The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together.
* (transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.
    He bashed my ideas.
** 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace‎, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 236:The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America.
** 2020 February 16, Sonia Sodha, “Politicians should stop bashing the rich… most of us just don’t agree”, in The Observer‎:This is consistent with new research about to be published by Tax Justice UK that found that, when making the case for a more progressive tax system, bashing the wealthy resonated far less well with voters than specific arguments about closing loopholes and increasing particular taxes.

##### Derived terms

* bashable
* bash about
* bashedness
* bash in
* bash into shape
* bash out
* bash someone's face in
* bash someone's head
* bash someone's skull
* bash the bishop
* bash together
* bash up
* fag-bash
* gay bash / gay-bash
* note-bash / note bash
* queer-bash
* trans bash / trans-bash
* unbashed

##### Descendants

* → German: bashen

##### Translations
#### Noun

bash (plural bashes)
* (informal) A forceful blow or impact.
    He got a bash on the head.
* (informal) A large party; a gala event.
    They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
** 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
* (UK, informal) An attempt at doing something.
    Synonym: (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) lash
    give something a bash
    I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.
    This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.

##### Derived terms

* bash and grab
* basher
* bashfest
* bashless
* bashment
* bashtag
* bashy
* beer bash
* bushbash
* earbash
* kitbash
* megabash
* on the bash
* photobash

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.

#### Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
* (obsolete, transitive) To abash (make ashamed)
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37:His countenance was bold and bashed not.

### References

* “bash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### References

* ↑ “baske” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog.

### Anagrams

* AHBs, Bahs, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, habs, shab

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian baš (“exactly, just, right”), present in most Balkan languages. Miklošič argued that the ultimate source is Turkish baş (“head, leader”).

#### Adverb

bash
* (used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) exactly, precisely, right

### Etymology 2

From earlier *balsha, a derivative of ballë.

#### Noun

bash m (plural bashë, definite bashi, definite plural bashët)
* (nautical) bow (of ship)
* center (of room or chamber)

##### Related terms

* ballë

### References

* ↑ Topalli, Kolec (2017) “bash”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 181
* ↑ Omari, Anila (2012) “bash”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe [Albanian-Serbian Linguistic Relations] (in Albanian), Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, →ISBN, page 97

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* bashu

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin bāsiō (“to kiss”). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case săruta) is not derived from the same Latin word.

### Verb

bash first-singular present indicative (past participle bãshatã)
* to kiss
* to embrace

#### Synonyms

* (kiss): hiritsescu, gugustedz
* (embrace): ambrãtsitedz, ambrats

#### Related terms

* bãshari / bãshare
* bãshat
* dizbash
* spribash

## Komo
### Noun

bash
* blood

## Yola
### Noun

bash
* Alternative form of baush

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25