vas

Symbol

vas

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vasavi.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vasavi terms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vās (“vessel”), from 1645–1655. Doublet of vase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæs/, /ˈvæz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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.

Anagrams

• ASV, AVS, AVs, Sav., sav

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

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

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.

Noun

vas

1. rice ((raw) seeds used as food)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbas]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvas]

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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.

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:

  (file)

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.

Adjective

vas f pl

1. feminine plural of van

Verb

vas

1. second-person singular present indicative of ir

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒʃ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: vas
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Noun

vas (usually uncountable, plural vasak)

1. iron (chemical element)

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

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.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin vas (“vessel”).

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.