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English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: găs, IPA(key): /ɡæs/
Audio (General American): (file) - (New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore) IPA(key): /ˈɡɛəs/
- enPR: găz, IPA(key): /ɡæz/ (regional)
- Rhymes: -æs, -æz
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.
Noun
editgas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)
- (uncountable, physical chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
- 2013 July–August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist[1], archived from the original on 7 September 2013:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
- (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
- Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones.
- (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
- The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
- (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
- (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
- She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
- (uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- Synonym: wind
- My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas.
- 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 72:
- But anyone with that many large brown birds aroost in his cranium and that much gas in his bottom was clearly not a well person.
- (business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
- (slang, dated) A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
- 1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine[2], archived from the original on 2017-10-04:
- Two more girls came in, one in bright pink stretch pants and the other in purple. “Man this place is a gas,” said pink.
- 1971, Marc Bolan (lyrics and music), “Life's a Gas”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex:
- No it really doesn't matter at all / Life's a gas / I hope it's going to last
- 1973 March 1, “Money” (track 6), in The Dark Side of the Moon[3], performed by Pink Floyd:
- Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
- 1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
- Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass
- 1979, “Belsen Was a Gas”, in The Great Rock ‛n’ Roll Swindle, performed by Sex Pistols:
- Be a man, Be a man / Belsen was a gas / Be a man, kill someone
- 2011 October 11, “Jumping Jack Flash (Live 1973)” (track 14), in Brussels Affair (Live 1973)[4], performed by The Rolling Stones:
- One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.
- (slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- 2017 July 1, “About That”, performed by Soph Aspin and Millie B:
- Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass
- (baseball) A fastball.
- The closer threw him nothing but gas.
- (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
Derived terms
edit- air gas
- bag gas
- base gas
- blast furnace gas
- bottled gas
- breathing gas
- Calor gas
- camping gas
- carbonic acid gas
- carrier gas
- CN gas
- coal gas
- coal seam gas (CSG)
- coke oven gas
- combined gas law
- cooking on gas
- cooking with gas
- CS gas
- degas
- drip gas
- exhaust gas
- Fermi gas
- filling gas
- flue gas
- freedom gas
- gas and air
- gas and gaiters
- gasbag
- gas balloon
- gas bar
- gas bladder
- gas boat
- gas bottle
- gas bracket
- gas-bracket
- gas burner
- gas centrifuge
- gas chamber
- gas check
- gas chromatograph
- gas chromatography
- gas clathrate
- gas coal
- gas constant
- gas cylinder
- gas dynamics
- gas engine
- gaseous
- gas field
- gas fire
- gas-fired
- gas fitter
- gas flaring
- gas gauge
- gas generator
- gas giant
- gasholder
- gas-house egg
- gas hydrate
- gasify
- gas jar
- gas-jet
- gas jet
- gas jockey
- gaslamp, gas lamp
- gas law
- gasless
- gas lighter
- gas-lighter
- gaslight, gas light, gas-light
- gas lighting
- gas-lighting
- gaslike
- gas line
- gas-liquid chromatography
- gaslit, gas-lit
- gas main
- gasman
- gas mantle
- gas mark
- gas mask
- gas-masked
- gas mechanics
- gas meter
- gas meter bandit
- gasometer
- gas on a stick
- gas passer
- gas pipeline
- gas plant
- gas poker
- gas-powered
- gassy
- gas syringe
- gas tar
- gas turbine
- gas van
- gas washer
- gas water
- gasworks, gas works
- greenhouse gas
- happy gas
- have a gas
- hydrogen gas
- hydrogen gas electrode
- ideal gas
- ideal gas law
- illuminating gas
- inert gas
- inert gas narcosis
- Knudsen gas
- laughing gas
- lifting gas
- liquefied natural gas
- liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
- liquid gas
- liquid natural gas
- liquified natural gas
- marsh gas
- Mond gas
- mustard gas
- natural gas
- natural gas liquid
- nerve gas
- Nevada gas
- noble gas
- non-ideal gas
- nonideal gas
- OC gas
- off-gas
- oil gas
- olefiant gas
- outgas
- oxygen gas
- packaging gas
- pass gas
- pepper gas, pepper-gas
- Pintsch gas
- poison gas
- power to gas
- producer gas
- purple gas
- rare gas
- rotten egg gas, rotten-egg gas
- second gas effect
- sewer gas
- shale gas
- sneeze gas
- sour gas
- super greenhouse gas
- swamp gas
- synthesis gas, syngas
- take gas
- tear gas, tear-gas
- town gas
- towns gas
- ullage gas
- van der Waals gas
- water gas
- wet gas
- white gas
- wood gas
Translations
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See also
editVerb
editgas (third-person singular simple present gases or gasses, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)
- (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
- The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
- He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
- (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
- 2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation[5], archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
- "He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
- (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
- 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
- […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “ […] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […] ”
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, in The Magician's Nephew, Collins, published 1998:
- "Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.
- (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- 2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me” (track 1), in Don't Gas Me[6], performed by Dizzy Rascal:
- I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".
- (intransitive) To emit gas.
- The battery cell was gassing.
- (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
- to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
- (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
- to gas thread
Translations
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editgas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)
- (uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- Synonyms: (US) gasoline, (British) petrol; see also Thesaurus:petroleum
- (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator.
- (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- 2018, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood, Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps[7], O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
- Gas is the fuel of Ethereum. Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether. Ethereum uses gas to control the amount of resources that transactions can use […]
- 2021 November 6, Ben Butler, “Australian banks are opening up to cryptocurrency: what does it mean for you?”, in The Guardian[8]:
- The average “gas fee” – transaction cost – of an Ethereum transaction is between US$85 and US $156, according to crypto.com data.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
Usage notes
edit- Unlike most terms derived from gasoline, the use of gas to mean gas pedal is not restricted to North America, and is also used in the UK; particularly among driving instructors and motoring enthusiasts.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Verb
editgas (third-person singular simple present gases or gasses, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)
- (US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
- Synonyms: hit the gas, step on the gas
- The cops are coming. Gas it!
- (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
- Synonym: refuel
- 1947 October 30, Bureau of Ships, “SECTION III - DISCUSSION”, in U.S.S. Princeton (CVL23): Loss in Action, Battle for Leyte Gulf, 24 October 1944[9], United States Hydrographic Office, archived from the original on 25 June 2024, B. Fires and Explosions in Hangar., page 8:
- Between 0945 and 1020 six definite explosions were reported in the hangar. Explosions at 0945 and 1006 were described as minor while those at 1002, 1003 and 1005 were classed as major explosions and the explosion at 1020 was described as a heavy explosion but less severe than some previous ones. The cause of these explosions was not reported and can only be estimated from the damage sustained by the ship and the known condition of loading. Each of the six torpedo planes spotted in the hangar was armed with one Mark 13, torpex-loaded torpedo and was fully gassed, including auxiliary wing tanks. Explosions in the hangar therefore might have been either detonations of torpedoes or gasoline vapor explosions.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Etymology 3
editCompare the slang usage of "a gas", above.
Adjective
editgas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)
- (slang) Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
- Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
- It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
- 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 113:
- The other models were gas fun, though they were all a bit hoity-toity.
- 2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me” (track 1), in Don't Gas Me[10], performed by Dizzy Rascal:
- I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editgas (plural gaste)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editgas (plural gasse)
- gas (substance in gaseous phase)
Basque
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editgas inan
Declension
editindefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | gas | gasa | gasak |
ergative | gasek | gasak | gasek |
dative | gasi | gasari | gasei |
genitive | gasen | gasaren | gasen |
comitative | gasekin | gasarekin | gasekin |
causative | gasengatik | gasarengatik | gasengatik |
benefactive | gasentzat | gasarentzat | gasentzat |
instrumental | gasez | gasaz | gasez |
inessive | gasetan | gasean | gasetan |
locative | gasetako | gaseko | gasetako |
allative | gasetara | gasera | gasetara |
terminative | gasetaraino | gaseraino | gasetaraino |
directive | gasetarantz | gaserantz | gasetarantz |
destinative | gasetarako | gaserako | gasetarako |
ablative | gasetatik | gasetik | gasetatik |
partitive | gasik | — | — |
prolative | gastzat | — | — |
Derived terms
editCatalan
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgas m (plural gasos)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “gas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “gas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chinese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ge1 si2
- Yale: gē sí
- Cantonese Pinyin: ge1 si2
- Guangdong Romanization: gé1 xi2
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
editgas
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) gas (fuel)
Derived terms
editDutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editCoined by chemist Jan Baptiste van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, chaos”).
Noun
editgas n (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)
Derived terms
edit- aardgas
- afvalgas
- autogas
- biogas
- blauwzuurgas
- broeikasgas
- campinggas
- chloorgas
- edelgas
- gasaanleg
- gasaansteker
- gasaanval
- gasaarde
- gasachtig
- gasautomaat
- gasbarbecue
- gasbaten
- gasbedrijf
- gasbel
- gasbescherming
- gasboei
- gasbom
- gasboring
- gasbrander
- gasbron
- gasbuis
- gascel
- gascentrale
- gascilinder
- gascoke
- gasdicht
- gasdruk
- gasexplosie
- gasfabriek
- gasfilter
- gasfitter
- gasfles
- gasfornuis
- gasgeiser
- gasgenerator
- gasgloeilicht
- gasgranaat
- gashaard
- gashendel
- gashouder
- gasijs
- gaskachel
- gaskamer
- gaskast
- gasketel
- gasklok
- gaskous
- gaskraan
- gaskroon
- gaslamp
- gaslantaarn
- gasleiding
- gaslek
- gaslicht
- gaslucht
- gasmasker
- gasmengsel
- gasmeter
- gasmotor
- gasnet
- gasnevel
- gasolie
- gasoline
- gasometer
- gasontploffing
- gasoorlog
- gasoven
- gaspatroon
- gaspedaal
- gaspenning
- gaspijp
- gaspistool
- gaspit
- gasplaneet
- gaspook
- gasprijs
- gasproductie
- gasradiator
- gasreserve
- gasreus
- gasrotonde
- gassig
- gasslang
- gassluis
- gasstel
- gastank
- gastarief
- gasthermometer
- gastoestel
- gasturbine
- gasveer
- gasveld
- gasverbruik
- gasvergiftiging
- gasvering
- gasverlichting
- gasverwarming
- gasvlam
- gasvoorraad
- gasvoorziening
- gasvormig
- gasvorming
- gasvrij
- gaswinning
- gaswolk
- gifgas
- knalgas
- kolengas
- lachgas
- lichtgas
- mijngas
- moerasgas
- mosterdgas
- motorgas
- oorlogsgas
- plankgas
- strijdgas
- traangas
- turfgas
- uitlaatgas
- verpakkingsgas
- waterstofgas
- zenuwgas
- zuurstofgas
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle Dutch gasse (“unpaved street”), from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.
Noun
editgas f (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editgas
- inflection of gassen:
Galician
editNoun
editgas m (plural gases)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editIcelandic
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editgas n (genitive singular gass, nominative plural gös)
- gas (state of matter)
Declension
editDerived terms
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editgas n (genitive singular gass, no plural)
Declension
editDerived terms
editAnagrams
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch gas (“gas”), a term coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”) or by chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgas (plural gas-gas, first-person possessive gasku, second-person possessive gasmu, third-person possessive gasnya)
- gas
- (chemistry, physics) Matter in a state intermediate between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid) (or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly.
- A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture (typically predominantly methane) used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
Derived terms
editCompounds
edit- gas air
- gas air mata
- gas alam
- gas basah
- gas batu bara
- gas bersin
- gas buang
- gas bumi
- gas gelap
- gas ikutan
- gas karbit
- gas karbon
- gas kecut
- gas kilang
- gas lamban
- gas lembam
- gas lembap
- gas minyak cair
- gas mulia
- gas pemati lemas
- gas pencerna
- gas pencerna anaerob
- gas penyesak napas
- gas racun
- gas rawa
- gas rumah kaca
- gas saraf
- gas sintesis
- gas tanur
- gas toksik
Verb
editgas
- (colloquial) to hit the gas, to accelerate.
- Synonym: mengegas
Further reading
edit- “gas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
editNoun
editgas (plural gases)
Irish
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgas m (genitive singular gais, nominative plural gais or gasa)
Declension
editDerived terms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gas | ghas | ngas |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 121
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Italian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgas m (uncountable)
- gas (state of matter, petroleum)
- carbon dioxide (in fizzy drinks)
- petrol
- Synonym: benzina
- poison gas
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- gas in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editEtymology
editCoined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont (appearing in his Ortus Medicinae as an invariable noun).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ɡas/, [ɡäs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡas/, [ɡäs]
Noun
editgas n (genitive gasis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | gas | gasa |
Genitive | gasis | gasum |
Dative | gasī | gasibus |
Accusative | gas | gasa |
Ablative | gase | gasibus |
Vocative | gas | gasa |
Malay
editEtymology
editFrom English gas, from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). First attested in 1648.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgas (Jawi spelling ݢس, plural gas-gas, informal 1st possessive gasku, 2nd possessive gasmu, 3rd possessive gasnya)
- gas:
- (physics) One of the four states of matter.
- (uncountable, physical chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
- The gas that is released by coal factories.
- The vapour that is released by petrol or gasoline.
Compounds
edit- gas adi (“noble gas”)
- gas air mata (“tear gas”)
- gas asli (“natural gas”)
- gas ketawa (“laughing gas, nitrous oxide”)
- gas lengai (“noble gas”)
- gas nadir (“noble gas”)
- gas pemedih mata (“tear gas”)
- gas petroleum cecair (“liquefied petroleum gas”)
- gas sahih (“real gas”)
- gas sempurna (“perfect gas”)
- gas tak sempurna (“real gas”)
- gas unggul (“perfect gas”)
- kilang gas
Further reading
edit- “gas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Naga Pidgin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Assamese গছ (gos).
Noun
editgas
Norman
editEtymology
editFrom Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.
Noun
editgas m (plural gas)
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editNoun
editgas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gaser, definite plural gasene)
See also
editReferences
edit- “gas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
editgas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gasar, definite plural gasane)
See also
editReferences
edit- “gas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.
Noun
editgās f
- a goose
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | gās | gās |
accusative | gāses | gāse |
genitive | gās | gās |
dative | gāsō | gāsum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
edit- Low German: Goos
Old Swedish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans.
Noun
editgās f
Declension
editDescendants
edit- Swedish: gås
Rohingya
editEtymology
editFrom Sanskrit.
Noun
editgas
Romagnol
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch gas (“gas”), invented by Jan Baptiste van Helmont, from Latin chaos (“chaos”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgas m (plural ghës)
Serbo-Croatian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgȃs m (Cyrillic spelling га̑с)
- (chiefly Bosnia, Serbia or colloquial) gas (state of matter)
- Synonym: (Croatian) plȋn
- gas (as fuel for combustion engines)
- (figuratively) acceleration
- dȁti gȃs - “give gas”: accelerate
- gas pedal, accelerator
Declension
editSpanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Dutch gas, coined by Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont. Perhaps inspired by Middle Dutch gheest (Modern Dutch geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”), or from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgas m (plural gases)
- gas (matter between liquid and plasma)
- gas (an element or compound in such a state)
- gas (flammable gas used for combustion)
- (in the plural) gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “gas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
editSwedish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editgas c
- gas; a state of matter
- gas; a compound or element in such a state
- gas; gaseous fuels
- (plural only: gaser) gas; waste gas
- gas pedal, acceleration (compare gaspedal (“gas pedal”) and gasa (“accelerate, hit the gas”))
- trampa på gasen
- step on the gas
- full gas
- full throttle
- gasen i botten
- pedal to the metal
Declension
editDeclension of gas | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gas | gasen | gaser | gaserna |
Genitive | gas | gasens | gasers | gasernas |
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom French gaze. Attested since 1670.
Noun
editgas c
Declension
editDeclension of gas | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | gas | gasen | — | — |
Genitive | gass | gasens | — | — |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- gas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- gas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- gas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
editTagalog
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɡas/ [ˈɡas]
- Rhymes: -as
- Syllabification: gas
Etymology 1
editEither from English gas, itself a clipping of gasoline, or a clipping of gasolina.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editgas (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editEither from Spanish gas or English gas, ultimately from Dutch gas.
Noun
editgas (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔)
Welsh
editPronunciation
editVerb
editgas
- Soft mutation of cas.
Mutation
editWest Frisian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgas n (plural gassen)
Further reading
edit- “gas”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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