English

Acronym

Bash

1. (computing) Name of the Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating system.

   Bash stands for “Bourne-again shell”.

2. (computer languages) Scripting language provided with this interpreter.

Derived terms

• bashism

Anagrams

• bahs
• habs, Habs

English

Verb

bash ‎(third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

1. To strike heavily.

   He bashed himself against the door.‎

   The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.‎

2. To collide.

   Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.‎

3. To criticize harshly.

   He bashed my ideas.‎

Translations

Noun

bash ‎(plural bashes)

1. A large party; gala event.

   They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

2. An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.

Derived terms

• bashment

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English baschen, baissen. See abash.

Verb

bash ‎(third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
   • Spenser

     His countenance was bold and bashed not.

Anagrams

• bahs
• habs, Habs

References

1. ↑ “baske” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Albanian

Etymology

From earlier *balsha, a derivative of ballë.

Noun

bash m (indefinite plural bashë, definite singular bashi, definite plural bashët)

1. (nautical) bow (of ship)
2. main part (of something), center (of room or chamber)

Related terms

• ballë

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bashu

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bāsiō ‎(“I kiss”). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case săruta) is not derived from the same Latin word.

Verb

bash ‎(past participle bãshatã)

1. I kiss.

Related terms

• bãshari/bãshare
• bãshat