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English
A Chinese vase.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French vase , from Latin vās . Doublet of vas .
Pronunciation
Usage notes
There is some tendency in American English to use the pronunciation /vɑz/ for more expensive and/or elegant items, and /veɪs/ for more everyday ones.
Noun
vase (plural vases )
An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers .
a vase of flowers
( architecture ) The body of the Corinthian capital .
Derived terms
Translations
container used mainly for displaying flowers
Abkhaz: ваза́ ( vazá )
Afrikaans: vaas
Albanian: vazo (sq) f
Arabic: زَهْرِيَّة f ( zahriyya )
Egyptian Arabic: ڤازة f ( vāza )
Hijazi Arabic: مَزْهَرِيَّة f ( mazhariyya )
Armenian: վազա (hy) ( vaza )
Asturian: floreru m , xarrón (ast) m
Azerbaijani: 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 (ca) m , florera f , pitxer (ca) m
Central Dusun: pasu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 花瓶 (zh) ( huāpíng )
Czech: váza (cs) f
Danish: vase (da) c
Dutch: vaas (nl) f
Esperanto: vazo (eo)
Estonian: vaas (et)
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 (ja) ( かびん, kabin, はながめ, hanagame, かへい, kahei )
Kazakh: гүлдесте ( güldeste ) , ваза ( vaza )
Khmer: ថូ (km) ( thou ) , ផើង (km) ( phaəng )
Korean: 꽃병 (ko) ( kkotbyeong ) , 화병(花甁) ( hwabyeong )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: guldank (ku) f , gulwaz (ku) f , vazo (ku) f
Kyrgyz: ваза (ky) ( vaza )
Lao: ໂຖດອກໄມ້ (lo) ( thō dǭk mai ) , ແຈກັນ ( chǣ kan )
Latin: vās (la) n
Latvian: vāze f
Limburgish: vaas (li)
Lithuanian: vaza f
Luxembourgish: Vas f
Macedonian: ваза f ( vaza )
Malay: pasu (ms)
Maori: oko putiputi , ipu putiputi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ваар (mn) ( vaar )
Nahuatl: xochicomitl
Navajo: chʼil bee ninákáhí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vase m
Ottoman Turkish: وازو ( vazo )
Pashto: ګلدان m ( gwǝldān )
Persian: گلدان (fa) ( goldân )
Plautdietsch: Wos f
Polish: wazon (pl) m
Portuguese: vaso (pt) m
Romanian: vază (ro) f
Russian: ва́за (ru) ( váza )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ва́за f
Roman: váza (sh) f
Slovak: váza f
Slovene: vaza (sl) f
Spanish: jarrón (es) m , florero (es) m , vasija (es)
Swedish: vas (sv) c
Tajik: гулдон ( guldon ) , қанддон ( qanddon )
Thai: แจกัน (th) ( jɛɛ-gan )
Turkish: vazo (tr)
Turkmen: waza
Ukrainian: ва́за (uk) f ( váza )
Urdu: گلدان m ( guldān )
Uyghur: لوڭقا ( longqa ) , ۋازا ( waza )
Uzbek: vaza (uz) , koʻra (uz) , guldon (uz)
Vietnamese: lọ hoa , bình (vi) , lọ (vi)
Welsh: fâs f
Yiddish: וואַזע f ( vaze )
Zulu: ivazi
Verb
vase (third-person singular simple present vases , present participle vasing , simple past and past participle vased )
( transitive ) To place in a vase or similar container.
2009 , Emily Bobo, Marvin Bell, Fugue , page 21 :She bought only pastel pencils and vased them in cups, great wooden bouquets in mugs on nightstands and kitchen chairs.
2021 , Christine DePetrillo, Wolf Love , page 172 :After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar. That seemed a fitting centerpiece for the table.
References
Anagrams
save , AEVs , Aves , aves , Veas , vaes , seva , Esav , Save , VAEs , VESA
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French vase , from Latin vās ( “ vessel ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
vase c (singular definite vasen , plural indefinite vaser )
vase
Declension
References
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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 .
Noun
vase f (plural vases )
silt , mud
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old French , borrowed from Latin vās .
Noun
vase m (plural vases )
vase
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Danish: vase
→ German: Vase (see there for further descendants )
→ Hungarian: váza
→ Hunsrik: Vaas
→ Luxembourgish: Vas
→ Norwegian: vase
→ Romanian: vază
→ Russian: ваза ( vaza ) (see there for further descendants )
→ Swedish: vas
Further reading
Latin
Noun
vāse
ablative singular of vās
Norman
Etymology
From Latin vās ( “ vessel ” ) .
Noun
vase m (plural vases )
( Jersey ) vase
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin vas , via French vase and German Vase .
Noun
vase m (definite singular vasen , indefinite plural vaser , definite plural vasene )
a vase
References
“vase” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin vas , via French vase and German Vase .
Noun
vase m (definite singular vasen , indefinite plural vasar , definite plural vasane )
a vase
References
“vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Pali
Alternative scripts
𑀯𑀲𑁂 ( Brahmi script ) वसे ( Devanagari script ) ৰসে ( Bengali script ) වසෙ ( Sinhalese script ) ဝသေ ( Burmese script ) วเส or วะเส ( Thai script ) ᩅᩈᩮ ( Tai Tham script ) ວເສ or ວະເສ ( Lao script ) វសេ ( Khmer script ) 𑅇𑄥𑄬 ( Chakma script )
Noun
vase
vocative singular of vasā ( “ grease ” )
Verb
vase
imperative active second-person singular of vasati ( “ to dwell ” )
imperative active second-person singular of vasati ( “ to clothe ” )
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
vase c
sheaf , nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
(Gothenburg dialect ) small boy
Anagrams