vase

See also: Vase, vaše, VASE, and ваше

English

A Chinese vase.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vase, from Latin vās. Doublet of vas.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɑːz/, (obsolete) /vɔːz/

  • Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːz
• (General American) IPA^(key): /veɪs/, /veɪz/, /vɑz/, (obsolete) /vɔz/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /vɐːz/, /væes/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [veːz], [väːz], [vaz], [-s], [vɒːz]
• Rhymes: -eɪs

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)

1. An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

   a vase of flowers

2. (architecture) The body of the Corinthian capital.

Derived terms

• celery vase
• lachrymal vase
• lacrimal vase
• name vase
• stirrup vase
• vase breath
• vase clock
• vaseful
• vaseless
• vaselike

 

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

• 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)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• save, AEVs, Aves, aves, Veas, vaes, seva, Esav, Save, VAEs, VESA

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French vase, from Latin vās (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːsə/, [ˈvæːsə]

Noun

vase c (singular definite vasen, plural indefinite vaser)

1. vase

Declension

Declension of vase

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vase	vasen	vaser	vaserne
genitive	vases	vasens	vasers	vasernes

References

• “vase” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaz/, /vɑz/

• Audio; “un vase”:

  (file)

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)

1. silt, mud

Derived terms

Derived terms

• envaser
• vasard
• vaseux
• vasouiller

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

Noun

vase m (plural vases)

1. vase

Derived terms

• en vase clos
• la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase
• vase communicant

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

• “vase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

vāse

1. ablative singular of vās

Norman

Etymology

From Latin vās (“vessel”).

Noun

vase m (plural vases)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. a vase

References

• “vase” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 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

1. vocative singular of vasā (“grease”)

Verb

vase

1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

vase c

1. sheaf, nowadays mostly as a heraldic symbol. Used in the coat of arms of the House of Vasa ruling Sweden 1523–1654
2. (Gothenburg dialect) small boy

Anagrams

• Evas, Svea, avse