basho

From Japanese 場所(ばしょ) (basho), short form of 本場所(ほんばしょ) (honbasho, “honbasho”).

basho (plural basho or bashos)

1. (sumo) A sumo tournament of any kind.
   • 1998, Matsumoto Toshimichi, editor, Japan Quarterly, volume 45, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25:

     Two basho later, I was at sekiwake, the third-highest rank in sumo.

• jungyo

• Bosha, Shabo

basho

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばしょ

• bacho (France), bašo (Yugoslavia), baxo (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish baxo, from Latin bassus.

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basho (Hebrew spelling באשו, feminine basha, masculine plural bashos, feminine plural bashas)^[1]

1. below; low (on or near the ground)
   • 1553, “Genesis, VI”, in Yom Tob Atías, Abraham Usque, transl., Biblia de Ferrara‎, page 4:

     Ventana haras à la arca , y à codo, la atemaras de arriba: y puerta de la arca, en ſu lado pornas; de andares baxhos,ſegũdos y terçeros,la haras.

     A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

2. low (small in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, &c.)
   • 2002, Gad Nassi, editor, En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir: Tekstos Kontemporanos en Djudeo-espaniol : Leyenda de Una Lingua - Haketia - Kuentos. Memorias - Meliselda - Oki Oki‎, Isis, →ISBN, page 251:

     Despues, el mansevo desho su lavoro de pastor, i se merko una grande butika en la sivdad, ande empeso a vender kozas de komer i ropas de vistir por presios muy bashos.

     Afterwards, the lad left his pastoral work, and marketed in a great shop in the city, where he started selling foodstuffs and clothes at very low prices.

3. low (in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, page 107:

     Indo mas adelantre, la mar se izo mas fuerte, i yo empesi a sintir a mi madre dizir a boz basha: “Shemá Israel…”, mientres ke en el korridor de la nave los papazes estavan rogando: “Ora pro nobis…”.

     Going further, the sea grew stronger, and I started to hear my mother say in [a] low voice, ‘Shemá Israel…’ while in the ship’s corridor the priests were begging, ‘Ora pro nobis…’

basho (Hebrew spelling באשו)^[1]

1. below; beneath; under
   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎, volumes 26–28, page 18:

     El fue fondado, en 1933, por un grupo de orijinarios de la sivdad de Bursa en Turkia, algunos de entre los kualos ya bivian en Yerushalayim ainda kuando esta sivdad se topava basho el rejimen del Imperio Otomano, ansi ke por sefaradis ke avian echo sus aliya a la Tierra Santa poko antes de la fondasion del Estado de Israel.

     It was founded in 1933 by a group of originators from the city of Bursa in Türkiye, some of whom, among others, already still lived in Jerusalem/al-Quds when this city was founded under the Ottoman Empire régime, likewise for Sephardim who were making aliyah to the Holy Land a little before the State of Israel’s foundation.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

basho

1. first-person singular present indicative of bashar
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of bashar