bast

Etymology
From, from , from (compare the 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), perhaps an alteration of ,  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
 * 2) * 1919,, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
 * I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.
 * 1) * 1919,, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
 * I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.

Related terms

 * (possibly)

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Bashkir: сүс
 * Belarusian: лы́ка, луб
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: basto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: tasco
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: vennä
 * Japanese:
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: ний
 * Western Mari: ни
 * Middle English: bast
 * Navajo: azhííh
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: entrecasca
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лика
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: łyko
 * Upper Sorbian: łyko
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ли́ко, луб, мачу́ла

Etymology 1
.

Adjective

 * 1)  supplied, furnished, provided
 * 2) rough, crude
 * 1) rough, crude

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) packsaddle

Noun

 * 1) raffia
 * 1) raffia

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) inner bark
 * 2)  velvet
 * 3)  skin, hide

Etymology 1
From, from , perhaps an alteration of ,.

Noun

 * , raffia
 * 1) rope made of

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A cord or cable manufactured using.
 * 2)  Bast; fibre made from the phloem of plants.

Etymology 2
(🇨🇬), probably a.

Noun

 * 1)  Illegitimacy; the state of being illegitimate.

Etymology 1
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  (fibre material)

Etymology 2
Via cant,. Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  years old

Usage notes
Often when emphasizing an old or (ironically) young age, in a given context.