طاس

Arabic

Alternative forms

• طَاسَة (ṭāsa)

Etymology

Shortening of طَسْت (ṭast), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tā́ćšti, from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti ~ *tétḱ-n̥ti, from *tetḱ- (“to create”). Doublet of طَشْت (ṭašt) and طَسْت (ṭast).

Noun

طَاس • (ṭās) m (plural طَاسَات (ṭāsāt))

1. bowl, cup

Declension

Declension of noun طَاس (ṭās)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَاس ṭās	الطَّاس aṭ-ṭās	طَاس ṭās
Nominative	طَاسٌ ṭāsun	الطَّاسُ aṭ-ṭāsu	طَاسُ ṭāsu
Accusative	طَاسًا ṭāsan	الطَّاسَ aṭ-ṭāsa	طَاسَ ṭāsa
Genitive	طَاسٍ ṭāsin	الطَّاسِ aṭ-ṭāsi	طَاسِ ṭāsi
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَاسَيْن ṭāsayn	الطَّاسَيْن aṭ-ṭāsayn	طَاسَيْ ṭāsay
Nominative	طَاسَانِ ṭāsāni	الطَّاسَانِ aṭ-ṭāsāni	طَاسَا ṭāsā
Accusative	طَاسَيْنِ ṭāsayni	الطَّاسَيْنِ aṭ-ṭāsayni	طَاسَيْ ṭāsay
Genitive	طَاسَيْنِ ṭāsayni	الطَّاسَيْنِ aṭ-ṭāsayni	طَاسَيْ ṭāsay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	طَاسَات ṭāsāt	الطَّاسَات aṭ-ṭāsāt	طَاسَات ṭāsāt
Nominative	طَاسَاتٌ ṭāsātun	الطَّاسَاتُ aṭ-ṭāsātu	طَاسَاتُ ṭāsātu
Accusative	طَاسَاتٍ ṭāsātin	الطَّاسَاتِ aṭ-ṭāsāti	طَاسَاتِ ṭāsāti
Genitive	طَاسَاتٍ ṭāsātin	الطَّاسَاتِ aṭ-ṭāsāti	طَاسَاتِ ṭāsāti

Descendants

• Andalusian Arabic: طَاس
  • → Spanish: taza (see there for further descendants)
• → Adyghe: тас (tas)
• → Avar: тӏарс (tʼars)
• → Azerbaijani: tas
• → Bashkir: тас (tas)
• → Buryat: таас (taas)
• → Chechen: тас (tas)
• → Crimean Tatar: tas
• → Chuvash: таз (taz)
• → Dargwa: тӏас (ṭas)
• → Georgian: თასი (tasi)
• → Hausa: tāsā̀
  • → Nupe: tása
• → Kabardian: тас (tas)
• → Northern Kurdish: tas
• → Lak: тӏяс (tʼaˤs)
• → Middle Armenian: թաս (tʻas)
  • Armenian: թաս (tʻas)
• → Munji: [script needed] (tóso)
• →? Ossetian: тас (tas)
• Persian: طاس (tâs) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romani: tas
• → Swahili: tasa
• → Turkish: tas
• → Yidgha: [script needed] (tása)
• → Medieval Latin: tassa
  • Emilian: tasa
  • Italian: tazza (see there for further descendants)
  • Old French: tasse
    • French: tasse (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: tâsse, tâth' (Saint Ouën)
    • → Dutch: tas
    • → German: Tasse (see there for further descendants)
    • → German Low German: Tass
      • → Estonian: tass
    • → Middle English: *tasse
      • English: tass
      • Scots: tass
  • Asturian: tasa
  • Old Occitan: tassa
    • Catalan: tassa
    • Occitan: tassa
  • Sardinian: taza
  • → Lower Sorbian: tasa

References

• Abajev, V. I. (1979) “²tas”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 234
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тас”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 224
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 157a
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 2044, pages 160–161

Persian

Alternative forms

• تاس (tâs)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [tɑːs]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑːs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑːs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɑːs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔːs]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɒːs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɔs]

Readings
Classical reading?	tās
Dari reading?	tās
Iranian reading?	tâs
Tajik reading?	tos

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic طاس (ṭās). Doublet of طشت (tašt), تشت (tašt).

Noun

طاس • (tâs) (plural طاس‌ها (tâs-hâ))

1. (archaic) cup
2. (archaic) bowl

Descendants

• Tajik: тос (tos)
  • → Uzbek: tos
• → Baluchi: [script needed] (tās)
• → Bengali: তাস (taś)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ताश (tāś)

  Urdu: تاش (tāś)

• → Kyrgyz: таз (taz)
• → Nepali: तास (tās)
• → Old East Slavic: тазъ (tazŭ) (via Turkic)
  • Belarusian: таз (taz)
  • Russian: таз (taz)
  • Ukrainian: таз (taz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: طاس (tâs)
  • Turkish: tas
  • → Albanian: tas
  • → Bulgarian: тас (tas)
  • → Greek: τάσι (tási)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: тас
    • Latin script: tas
  • → Romanian: tas
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਤਾਸ਼ (tāś), ਤਾਸ (tās)

  Shahmukhi script: تاش (tāś)

• → Tatar: тас (tas), таз (taz)
• → Turkmen: таз
• → Uyghur: داس (das)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (tʾs /⁠tās⁠/, “die”).

Noun

طاس • (tâs) (plural طاس‌ها (tâs-hâ))

1. die, dice

Derived terms

• طاس انداختن (tâs andâxtan)
• طاس‌بازی (tâs-bâzi)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tās”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 82

Etymology 3

Adjective

طاس • (tâs)

1. bald

Derived terms

• طاسی (tâsi)