gas

See also: Gas, gás, gaś, gãs, gås, gą̊s, gæs, gæs', gås', and Gaś

English

Pronunciation

enPR: găs, IPA^(key): /ɡæs/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

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

gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

(uncountable, 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:
  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.
(countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
(countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
(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.
(slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
- 1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny's Tale”, in Show Magazine‎, 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
- 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)”, in Brussels Affair (Live 1973)‎, 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.
(slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
(baseball) A fastball.
The closer threw him nothing but gas.
(medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
(slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.

Derived terms

air gas
av-gas
base gas
bottled gas
breathing gas
Calor gas
camping gas
carbonic acid gas
carrier gas
CN gas
coal gas
coal seam gas (CSG)
coke oven gas
combined gas law
cooking on gas
cooking with gas
CS gas
degas
drip gas
Fermi gas
filling gas
flue gas
freedom gas
gas and air
gas-and-dash
gas and gaiters
gas and go
gasbag
gas bar
gas bladder
gas boat
gas bottle
gas bracket
gas burner
gas centrifuge
gas chamber
gas check
gas chromatograph
gas chromatography
gas clathrate
gas coal
gas constant
gas cylinder
gas dynamics
gas engine
gaseous
gas field
gas fire
gas-fired
gas fitter
gas flaring
gas gauge
gas generator
gas giant
gas guzzler
gas guzzling
gas-guzzling, gas guzzling
gas-hog
gasholder
gas hydrate
gasify
gas jar
gas jet
gas jockey
gaslamp, gas lamp
gasless
gas light
gas-light
gaslight
gaslike
gas line
gas-liquid chromatography
gaslit, gas-lit
gas main
gasman
gas mantle
gas mark
gas mask
gas-masked
gas mechanics
gas meter
gas meter bandit
gasometer
gas out
gas passer
gas pipeline
gas plant
gas poker
gas-powered
gas pump
gassy
gas syringe
gas tar
gas truck
gas turbine
gas van
gas washer
gas water
gasworks, gas works
greenhouse gas
happy gas
have a gas
hydrogen gas
hydrogen gas electrode
ideal gas
ideal gas law
illuminating gas
inert gas
inert gas narcosis
Knudsen gas
laughing gas
lifting gas
liquefied natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
liquid gas
liquid natural gas
liquified natural gas
marsh gas
mustard gas
natural gas
natural gas liquid
nerve gas
Nevada gas
noble gas
OC gas
off-gas
oil gas
olefiant gas
outgas
out of gas
oxygen gas
packaging gas
pass gas
pepper gas
pepper-gas
Pintsch gas
poison gas
power to gas
producer gas
purple gas
rotten egg gas
rotten-egg gas
run out of gas
sewer gas
shale gas
sour gas
super greenhouse gas
swamp gas
synthesis gas
take gas
tear gas
tear-gas
throw gas on the fire
town gas
towns gas
ullage gas
van der Waals gas
water gas
white gas

Translations

(uncountable, chemistry) state of matter

Afrikaans: gas (af)
Albanian: gaz (sq) m
Arabic: غَاز‎ m (ḡāz)
Armenian: գազ (hy) (gaz)
Assamese: গেছ (ges)
Azerbaijani: qaz (az)
Basque: gas (eu)
Belarusian: газ m (haz)
Bengali: গ্যাস (gẏas)
Bulgarian: газ (bg) m (gaz)
Burmese: ဓာတ်ငွေ့ (my) (dhatngwe.)
Catalan: gas (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 氣體, 气体 (hei³ tai²)
Mandarin: 氣體／气体 (zh) (qìtǐ), 氣／气 (zh) (qì)
Min Nan: 氣體 (zh-min-nan), 气体 (zh-min-nan) (khì-thé)
Czech: plyn (cs) m
Danish: gas (da) n
Dutch: gas (nl) n
Erzya: лекс (leks)
Esperanto: gaso (eo)
Estonian: gaas
Faroese: gass n
Finnish: kaasu (fi)
French: gaz (fr) m sg or m pl
Galician: gas (gl) m
Georgian: გაზი (gazi), აირი (ka) (airi)
German: Gas (de) n
Greek: αέριο (el) n (aério), ατμός (el) m (atmós)
Greenlandic: gassi
Gujarati: વાયુ (gu) m (vāyu)
Hebrew: גַּז‎ (he) m (gaz)
Hindi: गैस (hi) f (gais)
Hungarian: gáz (hu)
Icelandic: gas (is) n
Ido: gaso (io)
Indonesian: gas (id)
Interlingua: gas
Irish: gás m
Italian: gas (it) m
Japanese: 気体 (ja) (きたい, kitai), ガス (ja) (gasu)
Kannada: ಅನಿಲ (kn) (anila)
Kazakh: газ (kk) (gaz)
Khmer: ឧស្ម័ន (ŭsmăn), ហ្គាស (hkas)
Korean: 가스 (ko) (gaseu), 기체(氣體) (ko) (giche)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: gaz (ku)
Kyrgyz: газ (ky) (gaz)
Lao: ອາຍໄຕ້ (ʼāi tai), ອາຍ (ʼāi), ແກັສ (kæt)
Latin: gas (la) n, gasum n, gasium (la) n
Latvian: gāze f
Lithuanian: dujos f pl
Macedonian: гас m (gas)
Malay: gas (ms)
Maltese: gass m
Maori: haurehu, kāhi
Marathi: वायू (vāyū)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хий (mn) (xii)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gass (no) m
Nynorsk: gass m
Oriya: ଗ୍ୟାସ୍ (or) (gyas)
Pashto: ګاز‎ m (gāz), غاز‎ (ps) (ǧāz)
Persian: گاز‎ (fa) (gâz)
Polish: gaz (pl) m
Portuguese: gás (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੈਸ ? (gais), ਫੂ ? (phū)
Romagnol: gas m
Romanian: gaz (ro) n, gaze n pl
Russian: газ (ru) m (gaz)
Scottish Gaelic: gas (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пли̑н m, га̑с m
Roman: plȋn (sh) m, gȃs (sh) m
Sicilian: gas m
Silesian: goz m
Sinhalese: වායු (wāyu)
Slovak: plyn m
Slovene: plin (sl) m
Spanish: gas (es) m
Swahili: gesi (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: gas (sv) c
Tagalog: buhag
Tajik: газ (tg) (gaz)
Tamil: வளிமம் (ta) (vaḷimam), வாயு (ta) (vāyu)
Tatar: газ (ğaz)
Telugu: వాయువు (te) (vāyuvu)
Thai: ก๊าซ (th) (gáat), แก๊ส (th) (gɛ́ɛt)
Tibetan: རླངས་རླུང (rlangs rlung)
Turkish: gaz (tr)
Turkmen: gaz
Ukrainian: газ (uk) m (haz)
Urdu: گیس‎ f (gais), فارغہ‎ ?
Uyghur: گاز‎ (gaz)
Uzbek: gaz (uz)
Vietnamese: khí tê, khí (vi), chất khí (vi)
Volapük: vap (vo)
Welsh: nwy (cy) m
West Frisian: gas n
Yiddish: גאַז‎ n (gaz)

(countable, chemistry) chemical element or compound

Belarusian: газ m (haz)
Bulgarian: газ (bg) m (gaz)
French: gaz (fr) m sg or m pl
Georgian: აირი (ka) (airi)
Gujarati: વાયુ (gu) m (vāyu)
Hungarian: gáz (hu)
Portuguese: gás (pt) m
Polish: gaz (pl) m
Russian: газ (ru) m (gaz)
Sicilian: gas m
Slovak: plyn m
Swedish: gas (sv) c
Ukrainian: газ (uk) m (haz)

(uncountable) flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture

Belarusian: газ m (haz), прыро́дны газ m (pryródny haz)
Bulgarian: газ (bg) f (gaz) приро́дна газ f (priródna gaz)
French: gaz (fr) m sg or m pl
Georgian: ბუნებრივი აირი (bunebrivi airi)
Hungarian: gáz (hu), PB-gáz, propán-bután gáz, fűtőgáz
Polish: gaz (pl) m
Russian: газ (ru) m (gaz), приро́дный газ (ru) m (priródnyj gaz)
Sicilian: gas m
Slovak: plyn m
Ukrainian: газ (uk) m (haz), приро́дний газ m (pryródnyj haz)

(countable) hob on a gas cooker

Dutch: pit (nl) c
French: gaz (fr) m sg or m pl
Hungarian: gáz (hu), főzőlap (hu)

(US) gas in digestion

Belarusian: га́зы m pl (házy)
Bulgarian: га́зове (bg) m pl (gázove)
Finnish: ilmavaiva (fi), ilmavaivat (fi)
French: gaz (fr) m sg or m pl
Georgian: გაზები (gazebi)
German: Blähung (de) f
Greek: αέριο (el) n (aério)
Hawaiian: hūea
Hebrew: גזים‎ m pl (gázim)
Hungarian: szél (hu), bélgáz (hu)
Italian: gas (it) m
Japanese: ガス (ja) (gasu)
Korean: 가스 (ko) (gaseu)
Latvian: gāze f, gāzes f pl
Macedonian: гасови m pl (gasovi)
Polish: gazy m pl
Portuguese: gases (pt) m pl
Romanian: gaze n pl
Russian: га́зы (ru) m pl (gázy)
Sicilian: aria (scn) f
Slovak: plyny m pl
Swedish: gaser (sv) c pl
Turkish: gaz (tr)
Ukrainian: га́зи (uk) m pl (házy)

(slang) entertaining event or person

French: marrant (fr) (adjective)
Hungarian: jópofa figura/dolog

(baseball) fastball

French: balle rapide f, boulet de canon (fr) m, boulet (fr) m, missile (fr) m

Verb

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

(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.
(intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; 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, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 3,
  "Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.
(transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- 2018 September 14, “Don't Gas Me”, in Don't Gas Me‎, 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".
(intransitive) To emit gas.
The battery cell was gassing.
(transitive) To impregnate with gas.
to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
(transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
to gas thread

Translations

to kill with poisonous gas

Dutch: vergassen (nl)
Esperanto: gasumi (eo)
Finnish: kaasuttaa (fi), tappaa kaasulla
French: gazer (fr)
German: vergasen (de)
Hungarian: gázzal elpusztít/meggyilkol/kivégez
Italian: gasare (it)
Sicilian: gassari
Spanish: gasear (es)
Swedish: gasa (sv), gasa ihjäl

Etymology 2

Clipping of gasoline.

Noun

gas (countable and uncountable, plural gases or gasses)

(uncountable, Canada, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
Synonyms: (US) gasoline, (British) petrol, see also Thesaurus:petroleum
(uncountable, Canada, US, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal.
(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, 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:
  The average “gas fee” – transaction cost – of an Ethereum transaction is between US$85 and US $156, according to crypto.com data.

Derived terms

Terms derived from gas (gasoline)

autogas
avgas
gas-guzzler
gasless
gasohol
gas oil
gas pedal
gas station
gas tank
gas up
hit the gas
mogas
step on the gas

Translations

fuel

Armenian: բենզին (hy) (benzin)
Bulgarian: бензин (bg) m (benzin)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 汽油 (zh)
Czech: benzín (cs) m
Dutch: benzine (nl) f
Finnish: bensiini (fi), bensa (fi)
French: essence (fr) f
Georgian: საწვავი (sac̣vavi), ბენზინი (benzini)
German: Benzin (de) n
Greek: βενζίνη (el) f (venzíni)
Hebrew: דלק‎ (he) m (délek)
Icelandic: bensín (is) n
Interlingua: gasolina
Italian: benzina (it) f
Japanese: ガソリン (ja) (がそりん, gasorin)
Korean: 기름 (ko) (gireum)
Macedonian: бензин m (benzin)
Polish: benzyna (pl) f
Portuguese: gasolina (pt) f
Romanian: benzină (ro)
Russian: бензи́н (ru) m (benzín)
Sicilian: binzina (scn), nàffita f, gas m, carburanti m
Slovak: benzín m
Spanish: gasolina (es), bencina (es), nafta (es)
Swedish: bensin (sv)
Tok Pisin: bensin (tpi)
Volapük: bänsin (vo)

Verb

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

(US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
The cops are coming. Gas it!
Synonyms: hit the gas, step on the gas
(US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
Synonym: refuel

Derived terms

gas and dash
gas up

Translations

give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate

Bulgarian: давам газ (davam gaz)
Dutch: gas geven, gassen (nl)
Georgian: გაზის მიცემა (gazis micema)
German: Gas geben
Ido: gasagar (io)
Macedonian: дава гас (dava gas)
Russian: жать на газ impf (žatʹ na gaz); газова́ть (ru) impf (gazovátʹ), газану́ть (ru) pf (gazanútʹ)
Spanish: acelerar (es)

fill a vehicle's fuel tank

Bulgarian: зареждам (bg) (zareždam)
Dutch: tanken (nl)
Georgian: საწვავით გამართვა (sac̣vavit gamartva)
German: auftanken (de), tanken (de)
Portuguese: completar (pt)
Russian: заправля́ть (ru) impf (zapravljátʹ), запра́вить (ru) pf (zaprávitʹ)
Spanish: echar gasolina, llenar el tanque, repostar (es)

Etymology 3

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

Adjective

gas (comparative gasser, superlative gassest)

(slang) Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
- 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”, in Don't Gas Me‎, 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".
Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.

Anagrams

AGS, AGs, Ags., GSA, SAG, SGA, Sag, sag

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch gast.

Noun

gas (plural gaste)

guest

Etymology 2

From Dutch gas.

Noun

gas (plural gasse)

gas (substance in gaseous phase)

Basque

Noun

gas inan

gas

Declension

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	—	—

Derived terms

gaseoso

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡas/
Audio (file)

Noun

gas m (plural gasos)

gas

Derived terms

biogàs
cambra de gas
gas d'envasat
gas lacrimògen
gas natural
gas noble
gasós

Related terms

gasificar
gasolina

Chinese

Etymology

From English gas.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): ge¹ si²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ge¹ si²
  - Yale: gē sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ge¹ si²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gé¹ xi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

Noun

gas

(Hong Kong Cantonese) gas (fuel)

Derived terms

嘥gas

gas爐／gas炉

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɣɑs/
Hyphenation: gas
Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

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

Noun

gas n (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

gas
liquefied petroleum gas
Synonyms: autogas, LPG

Derived terms

aardgas
afvalgas
autogas
biogas
blauwzuurgas
broeikasgas
campinggas
chloorgas
edelgas
gasaanleg
gasaansteker
gasaanval
gasaarde
gasachtig
gasautomaat
gasbarbecue
gasbaten
gasbedrijf
gasbel
gasbescherming
gasboei
gasbom
gasboring
gasbrander
gasbron
gasbuis
gascel
gascentrale
gascilinder
gascoke
gasdicht
gasdruk
gasexplosie
gasfabriek
gasfilter
gasfitter
gasfles
gasfornuis
gasgeiser
gasgenerator
gasgloeilicht
gasgranaat
gashaard
gashendel
gashouder
gasijs
gaskachel
gaskamer
gaskast
gasketel
gasklok
gaskous
gaskraan
gaskroon
gaslamp
gaslantaarn
gasleiding
gaslek
gaslicht
gaslucht
gasmasker
gasmengsel
gasmeter
gasmotor
gasnet
gasnevel
gasolie
gasoline
gasometer
gasontploffing
gasoorlog
gasoven
gaspatroon
gaspedaal
gaspenning
gaspijp
gaspistool
gaspit
gasplaneet
gaspook
gasprijs
gasproductie
gasradiator
gasreserve
gasreus
gasrotonde
gassig
gasslang
gassluis
gasstel
gastank
gastarief
gasthermometer
gastoestel
gasturbine
gasveer
gasveld
gasverbruik
gasvergiftiging
gasvering
gasverlichting
gasverwarming
gasvlam
gasvoorraad
gasvoorziening
gasvormig
gasvorming
gasvrij
gaswinning
gaswolk
gifgas
knalgas
kolengas
lachgas
lichtgas
mijngas
moerasgas
mosterdgas
motorgas
oorlogsgas
plankgas
strijdgas
traangas
turfgas
uitlaatgas
waterstofgas
zenuwgas
zuurstofgas

Descendants

Afrikaans: gas
→ Caribbean Javanese: gas
→ English: gas
→ French: gaz
- → Moore: gaase
- → Romanian: gaz
- → Turkish: gaz
→ German: Gas
→ Saramaccan: gási
→ West Frisian: gas

Etymology 2

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

Noun

gas f (plural gassen, diminutive gasje n)

unpaved street

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gas

first-person singular present indicative of gassen
imperative of gassen

Galician

Noun

gas m (plural gases)

gas
Synonym: vapor

Derived terms

gas nobre

Related terms

gasoso

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaːs/
Rhymes: -aːs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch gas.

Noun

gas n (genitive singular gass, nominative plural gös)

gas (state of matter)

Declension

declension of gas

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	gas	gasið	gös	gösin
accusative	gas	gasið	gös	gösin
dative	gasi	gasinu	gösum	gösunum
genitive	gass	gassins	gasa	gasanna

Derived terms

táragas

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gaze.

Noun

gas n (genitive singular gass, no plural)

gauze

Declension

declension of gas

	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular
nominative	gas	gasið
accusative	gas	gasið
dative	gasi	gasinu
genitive	gass	gassins

Derived terms

gasbleia

Anagrams

sag

Indonesian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɡas]
Hyphenation: gas

Noun

gas (plural gas-gas, first-person possessive gasku, second-person possessive gasmu, third-person possessive gasnya)

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.

Derived terms

bergas
mengegas

Compounds

gas air
gas air mata
gas alam
gas basah
gas batu bara
gas bersin
gas buang
gas bumi
gas gelap
gas ikutan
gas karbit
gas karbon
gas kecut
gas kilang
gas lamban
gas lembam
gas lembap
gas minyak cair
gas mulia
gas pemati lemas
gas pencerna
gas pencerna anaerob
gas penyesak napas
gas racun
gas rawa
gas rumah kaca
gas saraf
gas sintesis
gas tanur
gas toksik

Verb

gas

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

Interlingua

Noun

gas (plural gases)

gas

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): [ɡɑsˠ]
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [ɡasˠ]

Noun

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

stalk, stem
sprig, shoot, frond
(figuratively) stripling; scion

Declension

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

Derived terms

gasach
gasán
gasarnach
gasghreim
gasóg
gasra

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gas	ghas	ngas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gas m (uncountable)

gas (state of matter, petroleum)
carbon dioxide (in fizzy drinks)
petrol
Synonym: benzina
poison gas

Related terms

gasare
gasolina
gassare
gassificare
gassista
gassometro
gassoso

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡas/, [ɡäs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡas/, [ɡäs]

Noun

gas n (genitive gasis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gas	gasa
Genitive	gasis	gasum
Dative	gasī	gasibus
Accusative	gas	gasa
Ablative	gase	gasibus
Vocative	gas	gasa

Norman

Etymology

From Old French gars, nominative singular form of garçon.

Noun

gas m (plural gas)

(Jersey) chap

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French gaze.

Noun

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

gauze

References

“gas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French gaze.

Noun

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

gauze

References

“gas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

gōs

Etymology

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

Noun

gās f

a goose

Declension

Declension of gās (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	gās	gās
accusative	gāses	gāse
genitive	gās	gās
dative	gāsō	gāsum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

Low German: Goos

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

gās f

goose

Declension

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)	gāsinna(r)	gāsa	gāsanna

Descendants

Swedish: gås

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit.

Noun

gas

tree

Romagnol

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡas/

Noun

gas m (plural ghës)

gas

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡâːs/

Noun

gȃs m (Cyrillic spelling га̑с)

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

Declension

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

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡas/ [ˈɡas]
Audio (Colombia) (file)
Rhymes: -as
Syllabification: gas

Noun

gas m (plural gases)

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

Derived terms

agua con gas
a medio gas
antigás
a todo gas
biogas
cámara de gas
gas de invernadero
gasear
gaseoso
gasero
gas hilarante
gasificar
gas inerte
gas lacrimógeno
gas mostaza
gas natural
gas noble
gasómetro
perder gas
tanque de gas
tener gases

Related terms

gasolina

Anagrams

ags, Ags

Swedish

Etymology

From Dutch gas.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɑːs/
audio (file)

Noun

gas c

gas; a state of matter
gas; a compound or element in such a state
gas; gaseous fuels
(plural only: gaser) gas; waste gas
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

Declension of gas
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gas	gasen	gaser	gaserna
Genitive	gas	gasens	gasers	gasernas

Derived terms

avgas
biogas
fordonsgas
gasa
gasbehållare
gasbrand
gasbrännare
gasbuss
gasformig
gaskammare
gasklocka
gaskromatografi
gasledning
gaslykta
gaslåga
gasmask
gaspedal
gasspis
gassvetsning
gasturbin
gasverk
ge gas
ha gaser
kvävgas
naturgas
rötgas
stadsgas
sumpgas
syrgas
tårgas
vätgas

Anagrams

ags, asg

Tagalog

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡas/, [ˈɡas]

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

gaas

Noun

gas

gasoline
Synonym: gasolina
kerosene; petroleum; gas
Synonym: petrolyo

Derived terms

gasan
gasera
gaserahan

Etymology 2

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

Noun

gas

gaseous substance; vapor; fume
Synonyms: singaw, asngaw

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡaːs/

Verb

gas

Soft mutation of cas.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cas	gas	nghas	chas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch gas.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɔs/

Noun

gas n (plural gassen)

gas

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From dialectal gassa, originally "expose to the sun, get hot," but of obscure ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡjäːs/

Noun

gas n

Romping, cry (of joy.)

Related terms

gaasp
gasig
gasp
gäsa
gäsasam

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gás.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡoːs/, /ɡɒːs/, /ɡɑːs/

Noun

gas f

Goose.
A round piece of butter with a depression created with the thumb.
= klening m

Derived terms

gasveittj
havgas
knekagas
lappgas
smagas
witgas

gas

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Verb

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Adjective

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Basque

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Chinese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Verb

Galician

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Compounds

Verb

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

Irish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension