baas

From Dutch baas.

baas (plural baases)

1. (South Africa) An employer, a boss. Frequently as a form of address.
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 40:

     ‘That's not what I'm complaining about, Baas,’ said Gordon.

   • 1932, George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, Hesperus Press Limited 1961, p. 11:

     ‘Excuse me, baas,’ she said, 'you have knowing eyes.'

Inflected forms.

baas

1. plural of baa

baas

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baa

• AABs, BSAA, Basa, Saab, Saba, abas, basa, saba, à bas

• IPA^(key): [bɑːs]

baas (plural [please provide])

1. boss

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic *baswô. Cognates include Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”); possibly also Old High German basa ("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base (“aunt, cousin”)).

• IPA^(key): /baːs/

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• Hyphenation: baas
• Rhymes: -aːs

baas m (plural bazen, diminutive baasje n, feminine bazin)

1. boss, chief, superior
2. employer, manager
3. (Belgium) strong or tough guy
4. (video games) boss
5. (figuratively) crack, master, expert at something
6. (figuratively) whopper, large one in its kind
7. (diminutive: baasje) fellow, boy, especially a youngling or novice

• Afrikaans: baas
• → English: boss
• → Sranan Tongo: basi
• → West Frisian: baas

From Spanish bajar.

báas

1. diminish, lessen

From Old French bas.

baas

1. Alternative form of bas

From Old French base.

baas

1. Alternative form of base