baza

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baza

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From Hindi बाज़ (bāz, “goshawk”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːzə/

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baza (plural bazas)

1. Any of three species of small, crested hawks in the genus Aviceda.

• crested hawk
• cuckoo-hawk

• Jerdon's baza, Aviceda jerdoni
• Pacific baza, Aviceda subcristata
• black baza, Aviceda leuphotes

• Zaba

Likely from Russian ба́за (báza).

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baza (definite accusative bazanı, plural bazalar)

1. base

Borrowed from Russian база (baza), from French base.

baza

1. base

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “baza”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market”) via a Turkic language.

• IPA^(key): /pɑˈt͡sɑ/

baza

1. city
2. marketplace

bazo +‎ -a

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaza/

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• Rhymes: -aza
• Hyphenation: ba‧za

baza (accusative singular bazan, plural bazaj, accusative plural bazajn)

1. basic

• bazlernejo (“elementary school, primary school”)

• baze

Attested since 1671 (baça). From Spanish baza, from Italian bazza.

• Hyphenation: ba‧za

baza m (plural bazas)

1. chance, luck, benefit
   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     ò purtuges do galego
     nunca sacou boa baça
     nen'a sacarà de nòs
     s'os carballos dan estacas.

     the Portuguese, on the Galicians,
     never obtained a good advantage
     nor will take it on us
     if oaks give stakes

2. trump card

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “baza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “baza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “baza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Hindi बाज़ (bāz, “hawk”).

baza f (plural baze)

1. African cuckoo-hawk, African baza (Aviceda cuculoides)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaza/

baza

1. inflection of baz:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

baza

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Borrowed from French base.^[1][2][3] First attested in 1683.^[4]

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• Rhymes: -aza
• Syllabification: ba‧za

baza f (related adjective bazowy)

1. base, basis (foundation or location)

   Synonyms: fundament, podstawa

2. (mathematics) basis (linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space)
3. (topology) base (set of sets from which a topology is derived)
4. (architecture) base (lowermost part of a column)
5. base (place where someone or something stays during periods of inactivity because of its convenient location)
6. base (totality of buildings, facilities, and equipment necessary to carry out a particular activity)
7. (military) base (permanent structure for housing military)
8. (electronics) charging base (the part of a device permanently connected to electricity in which its movable part is placed in order to charge it)
9. (baseball) base (one of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play)
10. (Marxism) base (forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life)

    Coordinate term: nadbudowa

11. (linguistics) base (morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached)

• → Kashubian: baza
• → Silesian: baza

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), baza is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 16 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 39 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 1 time in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 736th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[5]

• baza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• baza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• baza in PWN's encyclopedia
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “baza”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “baza”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “baza”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 107

• Rhymes: -azɐ
• Hyphenation: ba‧za

baza

1. inflection of bazar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• база (baza) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French baser.

• IPA^(key): /baˈza/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ba‧za

a baza (third-person singular present bazează, past participle bazat) 1st conj.

1. (reflexive, often in the passive voice) to be based on (be grounded in)

   Distilarea se bazează pe diferența între punctele de fierbere.

   Distillation is based on the difference between boiling points.

2. (reflexive) to rely on (put one’s trust)

   Synonym: (literary) se bizui

• bază

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.za/
• Rhymes: -aza
• Hyphenation: ba‧za

baza

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bază

• baza in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From -bara.

-báza (infinitive kubáza, perfective -bájije)

1. to ask

• ikibazo (“question”)

-bāza (infinitive kubāza, perfective -bāje)

1. to do carpentry, carve or sculpt wood

• umubaji (“carpenter”)

Borrowed from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).

• IPA^(key): /bǎːza/
• Hyphenation: ba‧za

báza f (Cyrillic spelling ба́за)

1. base
2. basis

• “baza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Latin basis.

• IPA^(key): /bàːza/, /báːza/

bāza f

1. base, foundation
2. base (permanent structure for housing a military)

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

baza

Wikipedia ^es

From Italian bazza.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈbaθa/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈbasa/
• Rhymes: -aθa
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ba‧za

baza f (plural bazas)

1. (card games) trick
2. trump, trump card (something that gives one an advantage)

   Synonym: as

3. Aviceda, cuckoo-hawk (bird genus)

• → Galician: baza

• “baza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

baza

1. dative singular of baz

From Proto-Bantu *-bàija.

-baza

1. to carve

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “ɓaza”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ɓaza (6.3)”