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A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).
bass (comparative basser, superlative bassest)
- Of sound, a voice or an instrument, low in pitch or frequency.
The giant spoke in a deep, bass, rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.
low in pitch
- Bulgarian: басов (basov)
- Catalan: baix (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: basa (eo)
- Finnish: matala (fi), ala- (fi)
- French: bas (fr), grave (fr)
- Galician: baixo (gl), grave (gl)
- German: bass (de)
- Greek: μπάσος (el) m (básos), ήχος χαμηλής κλίμακας m (íchos chamilís klímakas)
- Hawaiian: leo uō
- Hungarian: basszus (hu)
- Italian: basso (it)
- Japanese: ベース (ja) (bēsu), バス (ja) (basu)
- Latin: bassus
- Maori: nguru
- Polish: basowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: grave (pt), baixo (pt)
- Russian: ба́совый (ru) (básovyj)
- Spanish: bajo (es)
- Swedish: bas (sv)
- Tagalog: malagong
- Turkish: bas (tr)
- Urdu: ڈھولک (ḍhōlak)
- Welsh: bas (cy)
bass (plural basses)
A bass voice singing a soprano part
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.
- A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.
- One who sings in the bass range.
Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.
- The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.
- (voice types): soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto (female); countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (male)
- (music) SATB (Initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass.)
- acoustic bass
- acoustic bass guitar
- bass-bar
- bass bar
- bass-baritone
- bass bin
- bass boat
- bass bomb
- bass C
- bass clarinet
- bass clef
- bass cliff
- bass drop
- bass drum
- bass drummer
- bass fiddle
- bass fiddler
- bass guitar
- bass guitarist
- bass horn
- bassist
- bassless
- basslike
- bassline
- bassly
- bassman
- bass music
- bassness
- bass note
- bass recorder
- bass reflex
- bass-relief
- bass sax
- bass saxophone
- bass saxophonist
- bass staff
- bass trap
- bass trombone
- bass viol
- bass violin
- bass violinist
- bass violist
- bass-violist
- basswork
- bassy
- booty bass
- concert bass drum
- doghouse bass
- double-bass
- double bass
- drill and bass
- drill 'n' bass
- drum and bass
- drum 'n' bass
- electric bass
- figured bass
- great bass
- great bass recorder
- ground bass
- hyperbass flute
- keyboard bass
- Miami bass
- midbass
- midtempo bass
- murky bass
- octobass
- play someone like a bass fiddle
- slap bass
- stand-up bass
- stride bass
- string bass
- sub-bass
- synthbass
- synth bass
- tea chest bass
- upright bass
- walking bass
- washtub bass
- wobble bass
low spectrum of sound
- Bulgarian: бас (bg) (bas)
- Catalan: baix (ca)
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: bas
- Dutch: bas (nl) m
- Esperanto: baso (eo)
- Finnish: basso (fi)
- French: basse (fr) f
- German: Bass (de) m, Baß (de) m (obsolete spelling)
- Greek: μπάσος (el) m (básos), μπάσα (el) f (bása), μπάσο (el) n (báso)
- Hungarian: basszus (hu)
- Japanese: ベース (ja) (bēsu)
- Maori: reo nguru, reo panguru
- Polish: bas (pl) m
- Portuguese: baixo (pt) m
- Russian: бас (ru) m (bas)
- Scottish Gaelic: beus m, crònan m
- Slovene: bas (sl) m
- Spanish: bajo (es) m
- Swedish: bas (sv) c
- Ukrainian: бас (uk) m (bas)
- Welsh: bas (cy) m
- Yiddish: באַס m (bas)
section of musical group
- Bulgarian: бас (bg) (bas)
- Crimean Tatar: bas
- Dutch: bas (nl) m
- Finnish: basso (fi)
- German: Bass (de) m, Baß (de) m (obsolete spelling)
- Greek: μπάσο (el) n (báso)
- Hungarian: basszus (hu)
- Korean: 베이스 (beiseu)
- Persian: باس (fa) (bâs)
- Polish: bas (pl) m
- Portuguese: baixo (pt) m
- Russian: бас (ru) m (bas)
- Slovene: bas (sl) m
- Tagalog: lagong
- Welsh: bas (cy) m
singer
- Bulgarian: бас (bg) (bas)
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: bas
- Dutch: bas (nl) m
- Finnish: basso (fi)
- French: basse (fr) f
- Georgian: ბანი (bani)
- German: Bass (de) m, Baß (de) m (obsolete spelling)
- Greek: βαρύτονος (el) m (varýtonos)
- Hungarian: basszus (hu)
- Italian: basso (it) m
- Japanese: バス (ja) (basu)
- Maori: reo panguru
- Polish: bas (pl) m
- Portuguese: baixo (pt) m
- Russian: бас (ru) m (bas)
- Slovene: bas (sl) m
- Spanish: bajo (es) m
- Swedish: bas (sv) c
- Welsh: bas (cy) m
- Yiddish: באַס m (bas)
musical instrument
- Arabic: غيتار البيس
- Bulgarian: бас (bg) (bas)
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: bas
- Czech: basa (cs) f
- Dutch: basgitaar (nl) m or f, bas (nl) m
- Finnish: basso (fi)
- French: basse (fr) f
- German: Bass (de) m, Baß (de) m (obsolete spelling)
- Greek: μπάσο (el) n (báso)
- Hungarian: basszusgitár (hu)
- Icelandic: bassagítar m
- Italian: basso (it) m
- Japanese: ベース (ja) (bēsu)
- Korean: 베이스 (beiseu)
- Persian: گیتار بیس
- Polish: bas (pl) m
- Portuguese: baixo (pt) m
- Russian: бас (ru) m (bas)
- Scottish Gaelic: beus m
- Slovene: bas (sl) m
- Spanish: bajo (es) m
- Swedish: bas (sv) c, basgitarr c
- Thai: กีตาร์เบส
- Vietnamese: ghi-ta bass
- Welsh: bas (cy) m
clef sign
- Finnish: bassoavain (fi)
- German: Bassschlüssel (de) m, Baßschlüssel (de) m (obsolete spelling)
- Hungarian: basszuskulcs (hu)
- Italian: chiave di basso f, chiave di fa f
- Polish: klucz basowy m
- Portuguese: clave de fá (pt) f
- Russian: ба́совый ключ m (básovyj ključ)
- Slovene: bas (sl) m
- Swedish: bas (sv) c, basklav c
- Welsh: bas (cy) m
bass (third-person singular simple present basses, present participle bassing, simple past and past participle bassed)
- To sound in a deep tone.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], lines 99-99:
[…] and the Thunder
(That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd
The name of Proſper : it did baſe my Treſpaſſe
From Middle English bace, bas, alteration of bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰórsos (“prickle, thorn, scale”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at barse.
bass (countable and uncountable, plural basses or bass)
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- basslet
- black bass (Micropterus spp.)
- largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
- peacock bass
- sea bass
- smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
- spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus)
- striped bass (Morone saxatilis)
- white bass (Morone chrysops)
- Chilean sea bass
- European sea bass
- calico bass
- Otsego bass
- channel bass
- grass bass
- kelp bass
- rock bass
- spottail bass
the perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes — see also perch
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: levrek (sq) m
- Armenian: պերկես (hy) (perkes)
- Belarusian: аку́нь m (akúnʹ), во́кунь m (vókunʹ)
- Bulgarian: ко́стур (bg) m (kóstur)
- Catalan: llobarro (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎤᏃᎦ (unoga)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: baars (nl) m
- Finnish: bassi (fi); ahvenkala (fi)
- French: bar (fr) m, perche (fr) f, achigan (fr) m (Canada)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Barsch (de) m
- Greek: πέρκα (el) f (pérka)
- Ancient: λάβραξ m (lábrax)
- Hungarian: sügér (hu) (perch), fekete sügér (smallmouth bass), pisztrángsügér (hu) (largemouth bass)
- Indonesian: kakap (id)
- Italian: branzino (it) m, spigola (it) m
- Kazakh: алабұға (alabūğa)
- Latvian: asaris (lv)
- Laz: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: ešerys
- Maori: moeone, ngutoro
- Norwegian: bass (no)
- Persian: خارماهی (xârmâhi)
- Polish: okoń (pl) m, bass (pl) m
- Portuguese: perca (pt) f
- Romanian: biban (ro) m
- Russian: о́кунь (ru) m (ókunʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: basan m, creagag-uisge f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: okúň m
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: róbalo (es) m, lubina f, perca f (freshwater)
- Swedish: abborre (sv) c
- Turkish: levrek (tr)
- Ukrainian: о́кунь (uk) m (ókunʹ)
- Welsh: draenogiad y môr m
A corruption of bast.
bass (countable and uncountable, plural basses)
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
[1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, Wakefield: J.R.Smith, page 6:
BASS, 1, a door mat]
1982 [1980], J L Carr, A Month in the Country, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books/Harvester Press, →ISBN, page 2:
I set off half-heartedly, as best I could sheltering my spare clothes (which were in the straw fish-bass) under my coat. […] The rain made a channel from my trilby down my neck and one handle of the fish-bass gave way.
bass n (plural bèssar, diminutive bèssle)
- (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of vass
Former comparative of wohl.
bass (strong nominative masculine singular basser, not comparable)
This word is primarily used in the collocations bass erstaunt/basses Erstaunen.
Positive forms of bass (uncomparable)
bass
- Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary[1], SIL International
bass m (1st declension)
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *basás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós. Cognate with Lithuanian basas, Russian босо́й (bosój), English bare.
bass (definite basais, comparative basāks, superlative visbasākais, adverb basi)
Akin to Italian basso, from Late Latin bassus.
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Inherited from dialectal Arabic; compare Tunisian Arabic بص (baṣṣ, “to fart”).
bass (imperfect jboss, verbal noun bass)
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | bassejt | bassejt | bass | bassejna | bassejtu | bassew | |
f | basset | |||||||
imperfect | m | nboss | tboss | jboss | nbossu | tbossu | jbossu | |
f | tboss | |||||||
imperative | boss | bossu |
bass m (plural bassis)
bass
bass
- Alternative form of bas
From Latin bassus, via Italian basso.
bass m (definite singular bassen, indefinite plural basser, definite plural bassene)
- (music) bass (musical range, person, instrument or group performing in the base range)
- (music) short for bassgitar (bass guitar) or kontrabass (double bass)
- “bass” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
From Latin bassus, via Italian basso.
bass m (definite singular bassen, indefinite plural bassar, definite plural bassane)
- (music) bass (musical range, person, instrument or group performing in the base range)
- (music) short for bassgitar (bass guitar) or kontrabass (double bass)
- “bass” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From Late Latin bassus.