vase

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EnglishEdit

A Chinese vase.

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French vase, from Latin vas.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /vɑːz/
• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• (US) IPA^(key): /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪs
• Rhymes: -æz

NounEdit

vase (plural vases)

1. A container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

TranslationsEdit

container used mainly for displaying flowers

• Abkhaz: ваза (vāzā)
• Afrikaans: vaas
• Albanian: vazo (sq) f
• Arabic: زَهْرِيَّة‏‎ f (zahriyya), زَهْرِيَّة‏‎ f (zahriyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: ڤازة‏‎ f (vāza)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَزْهَرِيَّة‏‎ f (mazhariyya)

• Armenian: վազա (hy) (vaza)
• Asturian: floreru m, xarrón m
• Azeri: vaza (az), güldan (az)
• Basque: lorontzi
• Belarusian: ва́за f (váza)
• Bengali: দানি (dani)
• Bulgarian: ва́за (bg) f (váza)
• Burmese: ပန်းအိုး (my) (pan:ui:)
• Catalan: gerro m, florera f
• Central Dusun: pasu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花瓶 (zh) (huāpíng)

• Czech: váza (cs) f
• Danish: vase (da) c
• Dutch: vaas (nl) f
• Esperanto: vazo
• Estonian: vaas
• Faroese: vasi m
• Finnish: maljakko (fi)
• French: vase (fr) m
• Friulian: vâs m
• Galician: floreiro m, vaso (gl) m
• Georgian: ვაზა (ka) (vaza), ლარნაკი (ka) (larnaḳi)
• German: Vase (de) f
• Greek: ανθοδοχείο (el) n (anthodocheío), βάζο (el) n (vázo)
• Hebrew: וָזָה / ואזה‏‎ f (váza), אֲגַרטֵל‏‎ (he) m (agartál)
• Hindi: गुलदान (hi) m (guldān)
• Hungarian: váza (hu)
• Icelandic: vasi (is) m
• Ido: vazo (io)
• Indonesian: vas (id)
• Irish: vása m, bláthchuach m
• Italian: vaso (it) m
• Japanese: 花瓶 (かびん, kabin, はながめ, hanagame, かへい, kahei)

• Kazakh: гүлдесте (güldeste), ваза (vaza)
• Khmer: ថូ (km) (tʰoo), ផើង (km) (pʰaəng)
• Korean: 꽃병 (ko) (kkotbyeong), 화병 (hwabyeong)
• Kurdish: guldank (ku) f, gulwaz (ku) f, vazo (ku) f
• Kyrgyz: ваза (ky) (vaza)
• Lao: ໂຖດອກໄມ້ (lo) (thō dǭk mai), ແຈກັນ (chǣ kan)
• Latin: vāse m, vāsis pl
• Latvian: vāze f
• Limburgish: vaas (li)
• Lithuanian: vaza f
• Luxembourgish: Vas f
• Macedonian: ваза f (vaza)
• Malay: pasu
• Maori: oko putiputi, ipu putiputi
• Mongolian: ваар (mn) (vaar)
• Navajo: chʼil bee ninákáhí
• Norwegian: vase m
• Persian: گلدان‏‎ (fa) (goldân)
• Polish: wazon (pl) m
• Portuguese: vaso (pt) m
• Romanian: vază (ro) f
• Russian: ва́за (ru) (váza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ваза f

  Roman: vaza (sh) f

• Slovak: váza f
• Slovene: vaza (sl) f
• Spanish: jarrón (es) m, florero (es) m
• Swedish: vas (sv) c
• Tajik: гулдон (guldon), қанддон (qanddon)
• Thai: แจกัน (jɛɛ-gan)
• Turkish: vazo (tr)
• Turkmen: waza
• Ukrainian: ва́за (uk) f (váza)
• Urdu: گلدان‏‎ m (guldān)
• Uzbek: vaza (uz), koʻra (uz), guldon (uz)
• Vietnamese: lọ hoa, bình (vi), lọ (vi)
• Yiddish: וואַזע‏‎ f (vaze)
• Zulu: ivazi

AnagramsEdit

• AEVs, VESA, Veas, save

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

NounEdit

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

1. vase

DeclensionEdit

Declension of vase

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vase	vasen	vaser	vaserne
genitive	vases	vasens	vasers	vasernes

ReferencesEdit

• “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /vaz/

• audio (un vase)

  (file)

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle French, from Middle Dutch wase (“mud, silt, wet ground, clod of dirt, grass”), from Old Dutch *waso, from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, wet”). More at ouze.

NounEdit

vase f (plural vases)

1. silt, mud

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• envaser
• vasard

• vaseux
• vasouiller

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin vas.

NounEdit

vase m (plural vases)

1. vase

Further readingEdit

• “vase” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

vāse

1. ablative singular of vāsis

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

NounEdit

vase m (plural vases)

1. (Jersey) vase

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

NounEdit

vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vaser, definite plural vasene)

1. a vase

ReferencesEdit

• “vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vas, via French vase and German Vase.

NounEdit

vase m (definite singular vasen, indefinite plural vasar, definite plural vasane)

1. a vase

ReferencesEdit

• “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.