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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English *basshen , *basken , likely from Old Norse *baska ("to strike"), akin to Swedish basa ("to baste, whip, lash, flog"), Danish baske ("to beat, strike, cudgel"), German patschen ("to slap")[1]

Verb

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bash (third-person singular simple present bashes , present participle bashing , simple past and past participle bashed )

  1. (informal ) To strike heavily; to beat.
    The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
    If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.
    • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range , Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 141:
      It was planned that the sick men were to crawl over and simultaneously seize the fire-arms and bash us with them while the women flung themselves upon the trackers.
    • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
      It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole.
  2. (informal ) To collide; used with into or together.
    Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
    • 1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder, page 74:
      The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together.
  3. (transitive , informal ) To criticize harshly.
    He bashed my ideas.
    • 1994, Richard Nixon, "America Beyond Peace", in Beyond Peace‎[1] , New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 236:
      The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America.
    • 2020 February 16, Sonia Sodha, "Politicians should stop bashing the rich... most of us just don’t agree", in The Observer‎[2] :
      This is consistent with new research about to be published by Tax Justice UK that found that, when making the case for a more progressive tax system, bashing the wealthy resonated far less well with voters than specific arguments about closing loopholes and increasing particular taxes.
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Translations
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to strike
collide — see collide
to criticize

Noun

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bash (plural bashes )

  1. (informal ) A forceful blow or impact.
    He got a bash on the head.
  2. (informal ) A large party; a gala event.
    They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
    • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, "Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland", in RAIL, number 971, page 74:
      The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
  3. (UK , informal ) An attempt at doing something.
    Synonym: (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) lash
    give something a bash
    I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.
    This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.
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Translations
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gala
an attack
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English baschen , baissen . See abash .

Verb

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bash (third-person singular simple present bashes , present participle bashing , simple past and past participle bashed )

  1. (obsolete , transitive ) To abash (make ashamed)

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Albanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باش (baş).

Noun

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bash m (plural bashe , definite bashi , definite plural bashet )

  1. bow, prow (front of the ship)
    bashi i lundrës ― the bow of the ship
  2. the best part, the cream
    Synonyms: ballë , ajkë , lule
  3. corner of a room, usually where the hearth is
    Synonym: qoshe
  4. (Gheg , archaic ) extract, essence
Declension
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Declension of bash
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bash bashi bashe bashet
accusative bashin
dative bashi bashit basheve basheve
ablative bashesh
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Adjective

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bash (feminine bashe ) (Gheg , archaic )

  1. pure, truthful, main
  2. highly devoted, pious, conservative (of faith)
    • Rossi (1875), page 61a:
      bash-katolik ― pious Catholic
      bash-kshten ― pious Christian
      bash-turk ― pious Turk

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bȁš  / ба̏ш .

Interjection

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bash (Gheg , colloquial )

  1. exactly! precisely! just... !
    Synonyms: tamam , pikërisht , mu
    Bash ashtu! ― Just like that!

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin bāsiō ("to kiss "). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case săruta ) is not derived from the same Latin word.

Verb

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bash (participle bãshatã )

  1. to kiss
  2. to embrace

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Komo

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Noun

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bash

  1. blood

Yola

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Noun

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bash

  1. alternative form of baush

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25

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