Basel

English

Alternative forms

• Basle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːzəl/

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: Ба́зел m (Bázel)
• 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) (bâzel)
• 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

Danish

Proper noun

Basel

1. Basel (a city in Switzerland)

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

Swedish

Proper noun

Basel n (genitive Basels)

1. Basel (a city in Switzerland)

Anagrams

• elbas, sabel