If a Tatar succeeds in becoming an official, he will hang his bast shoes in the front corner of the house.
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Bast
//bɑːst//
Synonyms for "bast" (12 found)
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34 translations across 28 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- barmë noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Bashkir
1 entries- сүс noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Belarusian
2 entries- луб noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
- лы́ка noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ли́ко noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 韌皮 /韧皮 noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Czech
1 entries- lýko noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- ний noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Esperanto
1 entries- basto noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Estonian
1 entries- niin noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Finnish
1 entries- niini noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Galician
1 entries- tasco noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
German
1 entries- Bast noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Hungarian
1 entries- háncs noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Ingrian
1 entries- vennä noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Japanese
1 entries- 靱皮 noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- łyko noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Middle English
1 entries- bast noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Navajo
1 entries- azhííh noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Polish
1 entries- łyko noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Portuguese
1 entries- entrecasca noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Russian
3 entries- луб noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
- лы́ко noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
- моча́ло noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lika noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
- лика noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Slovak
1 entries- lyko noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Swedish
1 entries- bast noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ли́ко noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
- луб noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
- мачу́ла noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Unami
1 entries- wikpi noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- łyko noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Western Mari
1 entries- ни noun (fibre made from the phloem of certain plants)
Sample sentences
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He immersed himself in racial memories, not so much of Ancient Egypt where cats were prized as minions of the lovely cat-goddess Bast and ceremoniously mummified at the end of tranquil lives, as of the Middle Ages, when European mankind waged a genocidal war against felines as being the familiars of witches.
Source: tatoeba (12121736)
[T]here would be seen his face, or that of his elder brother, peering down. A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking[…]
Source: wiktionary
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
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