From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.
base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.[1]
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- Important areas in games and sports.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace..)
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (music) Dated form of bass.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (archaic) The housing of a horse.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, page 246:[…] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- Coordinate terms: tonlet, lamboys
1977, Armours of Henry VIII:The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour.
2007, AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies. Conference, Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-based Research : Postprints, pages 47–49:Both knee-length bases are made from black velvet [...] There was a second type of metal skirt that could be worn with armour: the tonlet. [...] Unlike the base, however, the tonlet did not have a textile counterpart. [...]
- (obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
- (obsolete) An apron.
1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess:bakers in their linen bases
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Synonyms: electoral base, political base
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- Synonym: substructure
- Antonym: superstructure
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- (aviation) Short for base leg.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
2019 January 20, Ann Cleeves, Paul Matthew Thompson, 1:26:51 from the start, in Lawrence Gough, director, Vera(Cuckoo) (9), episode 2 (TV series), spoken by Tyler Lennon (Louis Healy):TYLER LENNON(played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.
- (chemical compound that will neutralize an acid): alkali
- (antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”): acid
- (antonym(s) of “end of a leaf”): apex
something from which other things extend
- Arabic: أَسَاس (ar) m (ʔasās), قَاعِدَة (ar) f (qāʕida)
- Armenian: հիմք (hy) (himkʻ)
- Asturian: base f
- Azerbaijani: bünövrə (az), özül (az)
- Belarusian: падста́ва (be) f (padstáva), аснава́нне n (asnavánnje), асно́ва f (asnóva), ба́за (be) f (báza), фунда́мент m (fundámjent)
- Bulgarian: осно́ва (bg) m (osnóva), фундаме́нт (bg) m (fundamént)
- Catalan: base (ca) f, fonament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 基礎/基础 (zh) (jīchǔ)
- Crimean Tatar: baza
- Czech: kořen (cs) m, základ (cs) m
- Dutch: basis (nl) f
- Finnish: perustus (fi), pohja (fi) (concrete), perusta (fi) (figuratively)
- French: base (fr)
- Galician: base (gl) f
- Georgian: საფუძველი (sapuʒveli), საძირკველი (saʒirḳveli)
- German: Basis (de) f, Grundlage (de) f
- Greek: βάση (el) f (vási), θεμέλιο (el) n (themélio)
- Ancient: βάσις f (básis)
- Hebrew: בָּסִיס (he) m (basis)
- Hindi: बुनियाद (hi) f (buniyād), आधार (hi) m (ādhār)
- Hungarian: alap (hu)
- Indonesian: dasar (id)
- Italian: basi (it) f pl, basamento (it) m, fondamenta (it) f pl
- Japanese: 基礎 (ja) (きそ, kiso), 基 (ja) (もと, moto)
- Javanese: dhasar (jv)
- Kabuverdianu: bazi, baze
- Khmer: មូលដ្ឋាន (muulatthaan)
- Korean: 기초(基礎) (ko) (gicho)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بنکە (binke)
- Kyrgyz: негиз (ky) (negiz), түп (ky) (tüp), база (ky) (baza), себеп (ky) (sebep), базис (ky) (bazis), байыр (ky) (bayır), цоколь (ky) (tsokol), фундамент (ky) (fundament), таман (ky) (taman), негиздөө (ky) (negizdöö), негизделүү (ky) (negizdelüü), негиз салуу (ky) (negiz saluu), жайлашуу (ky) (jaylaşuu), таянуу (ky) (tayanuu)
- Lao: ກະທູ້ (lo) (ka thū), ຕີນ (lo) (tīn), ມູນ (mūn)
- Latin: solum (la) n
- Macedonian: основа f (osnova)
- Malay: asas (ms)
- Malayalam: അടിസ്ഥാനം (ml) (aṭisthānaṁ)
- Maori: take, taketake, tatūnga (of a hill or mountain)
- Occitan: basa (oc) f, fondament (oc) m
- Ottoman Turkish: قاعده (kaʿide), تمل (temel)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: بُنْیاد (fa) (bonyâd), بُن (fa) (bon), پایِه (fa) (pâye), شالودِه (fa) (šâlude), اَساس (fa) (asâs)
- Plautdietsch: Grunt m
- Polish: podstawa (pl) f, fundament (pl) m, baza (pl) f
- Portuguese: base (pt) f
- Quechua: tiksi (qu)
- Romanian: bază (ro) f, fundament (ro) n
- Russian: осно́ва (ru) f (osnóva), фунда́мент (ru) m (fundáment), ба́за (ru) f (báza), основа́ние (ru) n (osnovánije), ба́зис (ru) m (bázis)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тѐмељ m
- Roman: tèmelj (sh) m
- Slovak: základ m, základy m pl
- Slovene: temelj (sl) m
- Spanish: base (es) f
- Swahili: uanzishaji, uanzishaji
- Swedish: grund (sv), bas (sv) c
- Tajik: бунёд (bunyod), асос (asos)
- Telugu: పీఠం (te) (pīṭhaṁ)
- Tetum: hun
- Thai: ฐาน (th) (tǎan), โคน (th) (koon), พื้นฐาน (th) (pʉ́ʉn-tǎan)
- Tibetan: རྨང་གཞི (rmang gzhi), མཐིལ (mthil)
- Turkish: temel (tr)esas, kaide (tr)
- Ukrainian: осно́ва f (osnóva), підста́ва f (pidstáva), ба́за (uk) f (báza), фунда́мент m (fundáment)
- Urdu: بُنِیاد f (buniyād), بُنْیاد f (bunyād)
- Welsh: gwaelod (cy) m
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starting point of thought
- Bulgarian: старт m (start)
- Catalan: base (ca) f, principi (ca) m, fonament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 基礎/基础 (zh) (jīchǔ)
- Czech: základ (cs) m
- Dutch: basis (nl) f, vertrekpunt (nl) n
- Estonian: alguspunkt, põhi (et)
- Finnish: lähtökohta (fi)
- French: base (fr)
- Galician: base (gl) f
- German: Basis (de) f, Grundlage (de) f
- Greek: βάση (el) f (vási)
- Hebrew: נקודת מוצא f (nequdat motza)
- Italian: base (it) f
- Kabuverdianu: baze, bazi
- Ottoman Turkish: تمل (temel)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: ریشِه (fa) (riše), پایِه (fa) (pâye)
- Polish: baza (pl) f
- Portuguese: base (pt) f
- Romanian: bază (ro) f
- Russian: старт (ru) m (start), ба́за (ru) f (báza), ба́зис (ru) m (bázis)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба́за f, тѐмељ m
- Roman: báza (sh) f, tèmelj (sh) m
- Swedish: början (sv)
- Tibetan: གཞི་རྟེན (gzhi rten), གཞི་རྩ (gzhi rtsa)
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permanent structure for housing military
- Albanian: bazë (sq) f
- Arabic: قَاعِدَة (ar) f (qāʕida)
- Armenian: բազա (hy) (baza), ռազմակայան (hy) (ṙazmakayan)
- Asturian: base f
- Azerbaijani: baza
- Belarusian: ба́за (be) f (báza)
- Bulgarian: ба́за (bg) f (báza)
- Catalan: base (ca) f, caserna f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 基地 (zh) (jīdì)
- Crimean Tatar: baza
- Czech: základna (cs) f
- Danish: base (da) c
- Dutch: basis (nl) f, kazerne (nl) f
- Estonian: baas (et)
- Finnish: tukikohta (fi)
- French: base (fr), caserne (fr) f
- Galician: base (gl) f
- Georgian: ბაზა (baza)
- German: Kaserne (de) f, Basis (de) f, Stützpunkt (de) m
- Greek: βάση (el) f (vási)
- Hebrew: בָּסִיס (he) m (basis)
- Hindi: अड्डा m (aḍḍā)
- Hungarian: támaszpont (hu), bázis (hu)
- Icelandic: herstöð (is) f
- Ido: kazerno (io)
- Italian: base (it) f, caserma (it) f
- Japanese: 基地 (ja) (きち, kichi)
- Kazakh: база (baza)
- Khmer: អង្គ (km) (ʼɑng), ស្ថាន (km) (sthaan), មូលដ្ឋាន (muulatthaan)
- Korean: 기지(基地) (ko) (giji)
- Kyrgyz: база (ky) (baza)
- Macedonian: база f (baza)
- Malay: pangkalan (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бааз (mn) (baaz), суурин газар (suurin gazar) (China)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: base (no) m
- Nynorsk: base m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: پایْگاه (fa) (pâygâh)
- Polish: baza (pl) f
- Portuguese: base (pt) f
- Romanian: bază (ro) f
- Russian: ба́за (ru) f (báza), опо́рный пункт m (opórnyj punkt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба́за f
- Roman: báza (sh) f
- Slovak: základňa f
- Slovene: baza (sl) f, oporišče n
- Spanish: base (es) f
- Swedish: bas (sv), kasern (sv)
- Tagalog: takad, hukbuhing takad
- Tajik: база (baza), пойгоҳ (poygoh)
- Telugu: స్థావరం (sthāvaraṁ)
- Thai: ฐานทัพ (th) (tǎan-táp)
- Tibetan: དམག་སྒར (dmag sgar)
- Turkish: üs (tr), kaide (tr), karargâh (tr)
- Turkmen: baza (tk)
- Ukrainian: ба́за (uk) f (báza)
- Urdu: اڈا m (aḍḍā)
- Uzbek: baza (uz)
- Vietnamese: căn cứ (vi)
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headquarters
- Arabic: قَاعِدَة (ar) f (qāʕida), مَرْكَز (ar) m (markaz)
- Asturian: base f, sede (ast) f
- Catalan: seu (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 總部/总部 (zh) (zǒngbù)
- Danish: hovedkvarter n
- Dutch: basis (nl) f, hoofdkwartier (nl) n
- Estonian: peakorter (et)
- Finnish: päämaja (fi)
- French: base (fr) f, quartier général (fr) m
- Galician: base (gl) f, sede (gl) f
- Georgian: შტაბი (šṭabi)
- German: Basis (de) f
- Greek: βάση (el) f (vási), έδρα (el) f (édra)
- Icelandic: bækistöðvar f pl, höfuðstöðvar f pl
- Italian: sede (it) f, quartier generale (it) m
- Japanese: 司令部 (ja) (しれいぶ, shireibu)
- Korean: 사령부(司令部) (ko) (saryeongbu)
- Malayalam: താവളം (ml) (tāvaḷaṁ)
- Manx: bun-ynnyd m
- Maori: papa taunga, papataunga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hovedkvarter n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: سِتاد (fa) (setâd), پایْگاه (fa) (pâygâh)
- Portuguese: base (pt) f, sede (pt) f
- Russian: штаб (ru) m (štab), штаб-кварти́ра (ru) f (štab-kvartíra)
- Spanish: base (es) f, sede (es) f
- Swedish: högkvarter (sv) n
- Telugu: స్థావరం (sthāvaraṁ)
- Thai: ฐานทัพ (th) (tǎan-táp)
- Turkish: karargâh (tr), merkez (tr), üs (tr)
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cooking, painting, pharmacy: basic but essential component or ingredient
substance used as mordant in dyeing
chemical compound that will neutralize an acid
- Afrikaans: basis (af)
- Arabic: قَاعِدَة (ar) f (qāʕida)
- Armenian: հիմք (hy) (himkʻ)
- Asturian: base f
- Belarusian: асно́ва f (asnóva), аснава́нне n (asnavánnje)
- Bulgarian: осно́ва (bg) f (osnóva)
- Burmese: ဘေ့စ် (bhec.), ဗေ့စ် (bec.)
- Catalan: base (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鹼性/碱性 (zh) (jiǎnxìng)
- Crimean Tatar: baza
- Czech: zásada (cs) f, báze (cs) f, alkálie f
- Danish: base (da) c
- Dutch: base (nl) f
- Estonian: alus (et)
- Finnish: emäs (fi)
- French: base (fr) f
- Galician: base (gl) f
- Georgian: ფუძე (puʒe)
- German: Base (de) f
- Greek: βάση (el) f (vási)
- Hebrew: בָּסִיס (he) m (basís)
- Hungarian: bázis (hu), lúg (hu)
- Indonesian: alkali (id), basa (id)
- Italian: base (it) f, alcali (it) m pl
- Japanese: 塩基 (ja) (えんき, enki)
- Khmer: បាស (km) (baah)
- Korean: 염기(鹽基) (ko) (yeomgi)
- Malay: bes (ms)
- Malayalam: ക്ഷാരം (ml) (kṣāraṁ)
- Maori: pāpāhua
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: base (no) m
- Nynorsk: base m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: باز (fa) (bâz)
- Polish: zasada (pl) f
- Portuguese: base (pt) f
- Russian: основа́ние (ru) n (osnovánije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ба́за f, лу̀жина f
- Roman: báza (sh) f, lùžina (sh) f
- Slovak: zásada f
- Slovene: baza (sl) f
- Spanish: base (es) f
- Swedish: bas (sv)
- Tagalog: tangkap
- Telugu: క్షారం (te) (kṣāraṁ)
- Thai: เบส (th) (bèes), ด่าง (th) (dàang)
- Turkish: baz (tr)
- Ukrainian: осно́ва (osnóva)
- Vietnamese: bazơ (vi)
- Volapük: bäd (vo)
- Welsh: bas (cy) m or f, sawd m or f
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safe zone in children's game
baseball: one of the three places that a runner can stand in safety
lowermost part of a column
biology: nucleobase in the context of DNA or RNA
botany: end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support
electronics: controlling terminal of a transistor
geometry: lowest side or face
heraldic charge: lowest third of a shield or field
math: number raised to the power of an exponent
topology: set of sets from which a topology is derived
topology: topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles
acrobatics, cheerleading: person who supports the flyer
linguistics: morpheme that serves as foundation on which affixes can be attached
historical: smallest kind of cannon
historical: kind of skirt
lower part of a robe or petticoat
surveying: line that serves as the origin for measurements
Translations to be checked
Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
base (third-person singular simple present bases, present participle basing, simple past and past participle based)
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
2024 February 4, Grian, 23:40 from the start, in Hermitcraft 10: Episode 1 - THE START[1]:Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
2005, John T. Warren, Laura B. Lengel, Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Context, →ISBN, page 73:Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.
- (slang) To freebase.
1984, “8 Million Stories”, in Ego Trip, performed by Kurtis Blow ft. Run-DMC:You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face
have as its foundation or starting point
From Middle English base, bas, from Old French bas, from Late Latin bassus (“low”). Cognate with Spanish bajo, Italian basso and base.
base (comparative baser or more base, superlative basest or most base)
- (obsolete) Low in height; short.
- Low in place or position.
- (obsolete) Of low value or degree.
- (archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:UUhat meanes the mightie Turkiſh Emperor
To talke with one ſo baſe as Tamburlaine?
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 285, column 2:Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custome, and permit / The curiosity of Nations, to deprive me? For that I am some twelve, or fourteen Moonshines / Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore base? / When my Dimensions are as well compact, My minde as generous, and my shape as true / As honest madams issue? Why brand they us / With Base? With basenes Bastardie? Base, Base?
1623, Francis Bacon, De Augmentis Scientiarum:a peasant and base swain
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
1551, Ralph Robynson, transl., More's Utopia:a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:base ingratitude
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”
- (now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World[2], London: Chatto & Windus:'Like this horrible film.'
'Horrible?' Lenina was genuinely astonished. 'But I thought it was lovely.'
'It was base,' he said indignantly, 'it was ignoble.'
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
base coin
base bullion
- (obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
- Not classical or correct.
1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
- Obsolete form of bass.
the base tone of a violin
- (law) Not held by honourable service.
A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.
- Said of fellows, motives, occupations, etc.
terms derived from base (adjective)
Translations to be checked
Probably a specific use of Etymology 1, above; perhaps also a development of the plural of bar.
base (uncountable)
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars. [from 15th c.]
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:to run the country base
Variant forms.
base
- Alternative form of BASE
- ^ 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines,
- “base”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “base”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
base
- a bush taxi, a common type of public transit
- Synonym: duurunin
base
- to leave
- to cancel, stop, cease
- to abandon, throw away
From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).
base oblique singular, f (oblique plural bases, nominative singular base, nominative plural bases)
- base (bottom part; supporting part)
- French: base
- → Czech: báze
- → Danish: base
- → Norwegian:
- → Norwegian Bokmål: base
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: base
- → Romanian: bază
- → Russian: база (baza)
- → Armenian: բազա (baza)
- → Azerbaijani:
- Cyrillic script: база
- Latin script: baza
- → Crimean Tatar:
- Cyrillic script: база
- Latin script: baza
- → Georgian: ბაზა (baza)
- → Kazakh:
- Arabic script: بازا (baza)
- Cyrillic script: база (baza)
- → Mongolian:
- Mongolian script: [Term?]
- Cyrillic script: бааз (baaz)
- → Tuvan: бааза (baaza)
- → Middle English: base, bace, bas, baas, basse
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (base, supplement)