chas

== English == === Noun === chas plural of cha === Anagrams === ACHs, HCAs, Cash, cahs, CAHs, achs, cash, CASH == Breton == === Etymology === From French chasse (“hunt, hunting”), reinterpreted as a collective meaning “dogs”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃasː/ === Noun === chas plural of ki == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French chas, perhaps a derivation from Latin capsus (“sort of cage, hollow body”), related to capsa (“case, box”). The sense evolution could have been from "cage" to "bubble," as attested in the writings of Apicius (a Roman cookbook author), and then finally used to represent a small hollow object, or a cavity. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃa/ ~ /ʃɑ/ Homophone: chat === Noun === chas m (invariable) eye (of a needle) === Further reading === “chas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === cash == Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xasˠ/, /xɑsˠ/ === Adjective === chas lenited form of cas === Verb === chas analytic past indicative of cas === References === == Occitan == === Preposition === chas (Limousin) to, at, in (a place) == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃas/ [ˈt͡ʃas] IPA(key): (Canary Islands) /ˈt͡ʃas/ [ˈc̟a(h)] Rhymes: -as Syllabification: chas === Interjection === ¡chas! (Canary Islands) damn, wow Synonyms: chos, chuos, yos, yuos, ños, ñuos === Noun === chas m pl plural of cha === Further reading === “chas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Welsh == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /χaːs/ === Verb === chas aspirate mutation of cas === Mutation === == Yola == === Contraction === chas alternative form of 'chas === References === 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 56