blas

From Middle Cornish blas, from Proto-Brythonic *blas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos. Cognate with Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh blas, and Manx blass.

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blas m (plural blasow)

1. taste, flavour

   Synonyms: sawer, sawren, tast

2. smell, odour, stench

   Synonyms: fler, sawer, sawren

blas

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of blasa
2. second-person singular imperative of blasa

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• Rhymes: -aːs

blas

1. singular imperative of blasen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of blasen

From Middle Irish blas, from Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠl̪ˠɑsˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠlɑsˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠlˠasˠ/, /bˠl̪ˠasˠ/

blas m (genitive singular blais, nominative plural blasanna)

1. taste, flavour
2. (linguistics) accent (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
3. (as a negative polarity item) nothing, anything

   Ní bhfuair mé blas.

   I didn’t get anything.

• blasta (“tasty”)
• míbhlas (“bad taste”)

• blais (“taste”, verb)
• blaiseadh (“tasting”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “blas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)).

blas m

1. flavour
2. savour
3. taste

• blasacht

• Irish: blas
• Manx: blass
• Scottish Gaelic: blas

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “blas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Dutch blazen.

blas

1. to blow

From Middle Irish blas, from Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)).

• IPA^(key): /pl̪ˠas̪/

blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan)

1. taste, flavour
2. accent

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “blas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “blas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

blas m pl

1. plural of bla

From Middle Welsh blas, from Proto-Brythonic *blas, from Proto-Celtic *mlasto-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (“to try, taste”). Cognate with Cornish blas, Breton blaz, Irish blas; outside of Celtic, compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”).

• IPA^(key): /blaːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

blas m (plural blasau)

1. taste, flavour

   Synonym: chwaeth

2. (physiology) sense of taste

   Synonyms: sawr, archwaeth

• blasu (“to taste”)
• blasus (“tasty”)
• cyflas (“flavour”)
• diflas (“tasteless, insipid”)
• hyfrydflas (“savoury, savouriness”)