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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed 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

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gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

  2. (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.
    A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
    Synonyms: vapor, vapour
    1. (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.
    2. (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
      The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches.
  3. (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
    The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
  4. (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
    She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
  5. (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.
  6. (business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
  7. (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.
  8. (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
  9. (baseball) A fastball.
    The closer threw him nothing but gas.
  10. (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
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Verb

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gas (third-person singular simple present gasses or gases, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. (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.
  2. (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."
  3. (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.
  4. (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".
  5. (intransitive) To emit gas.
    The battery cell was gassing.
  6. (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
    to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
  7. (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
    to gas thread
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of gasoline.

Noun

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gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

  2. (uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
    Synonyms: (US) gasoline, (British) petrol; see also Thesaurus:petroleum
  3. (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.
  5. (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
    Coordinate term: Ether
    gas fee
    • 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.
  6. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
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  • 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.
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Terms derived from gas (gasoline)
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Verb

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gas (third-person singular simple present gasses or gases, present participle gassing, simple past and past participle gassed)

  1. (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!
  2. (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.
    (transitive or reflexive) To die through the inhalation of a gas.
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Etymology 3

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Compare the slang usage of "a gas", above.

Adjective

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gas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)

  1. (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".

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Afrikaans

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch gast.

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gas (plural gaste)

  1. guest

Etymology 2

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From Dutch gas.

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gas (plural gasse)

  1. gas (substance in gaseous phase)

Basque

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gas inan

  1. gas

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Declension of gas (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite 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 — —

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Catalan

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gas m (plural gasos)

  1. gas

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From English gas.

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gas

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) gas (fuel)

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae (1648), by way of deliberate similarity to Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, chaos”).

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gas n (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

  1. gas
  2. liquefied petroleum gas
    Synonyms: autogas, LPG
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch gasse (“unpaved street”), from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

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gas f (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

  1. unpaved street

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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gas

  1. inflection of gassen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Galician

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gas m (plural gases)

  1. gas
    Synonym: vapor

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Icelandic

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Dutch gas.

Noun

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gas n (genitive singular gass, nominative plural gös)

  1. gas (state of matter)
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Declension of gas (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gas gasið gös gösin
accusative gas gasið gös gösin
dative gasi gasinu gösum gösunum
genitive gass gassins gasa gasanna
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French gaze.

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gas n (genitive singular gass, no plural)

  1. gauze
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Declension of gas (sg-only neuter)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative gas gasið
accusative gas gasið
dative gasi gasinu
genitive gass gassins
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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From 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”).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɡas]
  • Hyphenation: gas

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gas (plural)

  1. gas
    1. (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.
    2. 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.

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Verb

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gas

  1. (colloquial) to hit the gas, to accelerate.
    Synonym: mengegas

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Interlingua

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Noun

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gas (plural gases)

  1. gas

Irish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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gas m (genitive singular gais, nominative plural gais or gasa)

  1. stalk, stem
  2. sprig, shoot, frond
  3. (figuratively) stripling; scion

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Declension of gas (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gas gais
vocative a ghais a ghasa
genitive gais gas
dative gas gais
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gas na gais
genitive an ghais na ngas
dative leis an ngas
don ghas 		leis na gais

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Mutated forms of gas
radical lenition eclipsis
gas ghas ngas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 121

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡas/
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Hyphenation: gàs

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gas m (uncountable)

  1. gas (state of matter, petroleum)
  2. carbon dioxide (in fizzy drinks)
  3. petrol
    Synonym: benzina
  4. poison gas
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Further reading

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  • gas in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Etymology

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Coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont (appearing in his Ortus Medicinae as an invariable noun).

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Noun

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gas n (genitive gasis); third declension

  1. (physics) gas (state of matter)
    Synonyms: gasum, gasium

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative gas gasa
genitive gasis gasum
dative gasī gasibus
accusative gas gasa
ablative gase gasibus
vocative gas gasa

Malay

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Etymology

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From 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”).

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gas (Jawi spelling ݢس, plural gas-gas, informal 1st possessive gasku, 2nd possessive gasmu, 3rd possessive gasnya)

  1. gas:
    1. (physics) One of the four states of matter.
      Coordinate terms: pepejal (“solid”), cecair (“liquid”), plasma (“plasma”)
    2. (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.
    3. The gas that is released by coal factories.
    4. The vapour that is released by petrol or gasoline.

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Naga Pidgin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Assamese গছ (gos).

Noun

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gas

  1. tree

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.

Noun

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gas m (plural gas)

  1. (Jersey) chap

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From French gaze.

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gas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gaser, definite plural gasene)

  1. gauze

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From French gaze.

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gas m (definite singular gasen, indefinite plural gasar, definite plural gasane)

  1. gauze

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Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

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gās f

  1. a goose

Declension

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Declension of gās (irregular)
singular plural
nominative gās gās
accusative gāses gāse
genitive gās gās
dative gāsō gāsum
instrumental — —


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Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse gás, from Proto-Germanic *gans.

Noun

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gās f

  1. goose

Declension

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Declension of gās (consonant stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gās gāsin gǣs gǣssinar, -ena(r)
accusative gās gāsina, -ena gǣs gǣssinar, -ena(r)
dative gās gāsinni, -inne gāsum, -om gāsumin, -omen
genitive gāsa(r) inna(r) gāsa gāsanna

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Rohingya

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit.

Noun

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gas

  1. tree

Romagnol

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Etymology

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From Dutch gas (“gas”), invented by Jan Baptiste van Helmont, from Latin chaos (“chaos”).

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gas m (plural ghës)

  1. gas

Serbo-Croatian

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gȃs m (Cyrillic spelling га̑с)

  1. (chiefly Bosnia, Serbia or colloquial) gas (state of matter)
    Synonym: (Croatian) plȋn
  2. gas (as fuel for combustion engines)
  3. (figuratively) acceleration
    • dȁti gȃs - “give gas”: accelerate
  4. gas pedal, accelerator

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Declension of gas
singular plural
nominative gȃs gásovi
genitive gasa gásōvā
dative gasu gasovima
accusative gȃs gasove
vocative gase gasovi
locative gásu gasovima
instrumental gasom gasovima

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed 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”).

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gas m (plural gases)

  1. gas (matter between liquid and plasma)
  2. gas (an element or compound in such a state)
  3. gas (flammable gas used for combustion)
  4. (in the plural) gas (waste gases trapped in one's belly)

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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch gas.

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gas c

  1. gas; a state of matter
  2. gas; a compound or element in such a state
  3. gas; gaseous fuels
  4. (plural only: gaser) gas; waste gas
  5. 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
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Declension of gas
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gas gas
definite gasen gasens
plural indefinite gaser gasers
definite gaserna gasernas
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Etymology 2

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From French gaze. Attested since 1670.

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gas c

  1. (chiefly in compounds) gauze (thin fabric with a loose, open weave)
    1. (medicine) gauze
Declension
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Declension of gas
nominative genitive
singular indefinite gas gass
definite gasen gasens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —
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Tagalog

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Either from English gas, itself a clipping of gasoline, or a clipping of gasolina.

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gas (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔)

  1. gasoline
    Synonym: gasolina
  2. kerosene; petroleum; gas
    Synonym: petrolyo
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Etymology 2

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Either from Spanish gas or English gas, ultimately from Dutch gas.

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gas (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔)

  1. gaseous substance; vapor; fume
    Synonyms: singaw, asngaw

Welsh

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gas

  1. Soft mutation of cas.

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Mutated forms of cas
radical soft nasal aspirate
cas gas nghas chas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Frisian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch gas.

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Noun

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gas n (plural gassen)

  1. gas

Further reading

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  • “gas”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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