Basel

Basel

English

Alternative forms

• Basle

Proper noun

Basel

1. The capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland.
2. A former canton in northwestern Switzerland.

Related terms

• Basel-Stadt
• Basel-Landschaft

Translations

city in Switzerland

Alemannic German: Bàsel Armenian: Բազել (hy) (Bazel) Basque: Basilea Bulgarian: Базел m (Bazel) Catalan: Basilea f Chinese: Mandarin: 巴塞爾／巴塞尔 (zh) (Bāsài'ěr) Czech: Basilej (cs) Danish: Basel Dutch: Bazel n Esperanto: Bazelo Finnish: Basel Franco-Provençal: Bâla French: Bâle (fr) f Galician: Basilea f Georgian: ბაზელი (bazeli) German: Basel (de) n Greek: Βασιλεία (el) f (Vasileía) Hebrew: באזל‎ (bazel) Hungarian: Bázel (hu) Icelandic: Buslaraborg f Italian: Basilea (it) f Japanese: バーゼル (Bāzeru) Korean: 바젤 (ko) (bajel) Latin: Basilea f Latvian: Bāzele f Lithuanian: Bazelis m Norwegian: Bokmål: Basel n Nynorsk: Basel n Occitan: Basilèa f Persian: بازل‎ (fa) (bázel) Polish: Bazylea (pl) f Portuguese: Basileia (pt) f Romanian: Basel n Russian: Ба́зель (ru) m (Bázɛlʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Базел m Roman: Basel (sh) m Slovak: Bazilej Slovene: Basel m Spanish: Basilea (es) Swedish: Basel (sv) Turkish: Basel Ukrainian: Ба́зель m (Bázelʹ) Venetian: Baxiłea f Yiddish: באַזל‎ n (bazl)

Anagrams

• Ables, Basle, Blase, Bleas, Sabel, Sable, ables, albes, baels, bales, beals, blase, blasé, labes, sable, saleb

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Danish

Proper noun

Basel

1. Basel (a city in Switzerland)

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Basel n (proper noun, genitive Basels or (optionally with an article) Basel)

1. Basel (the capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland)

Further reading

• “Basel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Basel” in Duden online
• “Basel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

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Swedish

Proper noun

Basel n (genitive Basels)

1. Basel (a city in Switzerland)

Anagrams

• elbas, sabel