From base + -ment .
basement (plural basements )
A floor of a building below ground level .
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance , “An Outsider [ … ] ”, in Munsey’s Magazine , volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ ndrew] Munsey Company , [ … ] , published 1915 , →OCLC , chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382 , column 1:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
( geology ) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
( sports , informal ) Last place in a sports conference 's standings .
floor below ground level
Afrikaans: kelder
Albanian: bodrum (sq) , qilar (sq) m
Arabic: قَبُو m ( qabū ) , سِرْدَاب m ( sirdāb ) , بَدْرُوم m ( badrūm ) , بَدْرُون m ( badrūn )
Egyptian Arabic: بدرون m ( badrawn )
Hijazi Arabic: قَبو m ( gabu ) , بدروم m ( badrōm )
Armenian: նկուղ (hy) ( nkuġ )
Asturian: suétanu (ast)
Azerbaijani: zirzəmi
Basque: soto
Belarusian: падва́л m ( padvál ) , склеп m ( skljep ) , сутарэ́нне n ( sutarénnje ) , сутарэ́ньне n ( sutarénʹnje ) , піўні́ца f ( piŭníca )
Bulgarian: сутере́н (bg) m ( suterén )
Catalan: soterrani (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎭᏫᏂ ( hawini )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 地牢 ( dei6 lou4 )
Mandarin: 地下室 (zh) ( dìxiàshì )
Czech: suterén (cs) m , sklep (cs) m
Danish: kælder (da) c
Dutch: kelder (nl) m
Esperanto: kelo (eo)
Estonian: kelder
Farefare: tɩntɩndeo , tẽntẽndeo
Faroese: kjallari m , kjallarahædd f
Finnish: kellarikerros (fi)
French: sous-sol (fr) m , cave (fr) f
Galician: soto (gl) m
Georgian: სარდაფი ( sardapi ) , სარდაფის სართული ( sardapis sartuli ) , მიწისქვეშა სართული ( mic̣iskveša sartuli ) , შენობის საძირკველი ( šenobis saʒirḳveli ) , შენობის ფუნდამენტი ( šenobis pundamenṭi )
German: Keller (de) m , Untergeschoss (de) n , Kellergeschoss (de) n
Greek: υπόγειο (el) n ( ypógeio )
Gujarati: ભોંયરું m ( bhõyarũ )
Hebrew: מַרְתֵּף (he) m ( martéf )
Hindi: तहख़ाना ( tahxānā )
Hungarian: alagsor (hu)
Icelandic: kjallari (is) m
Ido: basamento (io)
Indonesian: bawah tanah , basemen
Ingrian: podvala
Irish: íoslach m
Italian: scantinato (it) m , seminterrato (it) m
Japanese: 地下室 (ja) ( ちかしつ, chikashitsu )
Javanese: ngisor
Korean: 지하실(地下室) (ko) ( jihasil )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ژێرزەوی ( jêrzewî )
Northern Kurdish: jêrzemîn (ku) , bodrûm (ku)
Latin: basis (la) f
Latvian: pagrabs m
Macedonian: подрум m ( podrum ) , сутере́н m ( suterén )
Malay: bawah tanah (ms)
Maltese: kantina m
Ngazidja Comorian: fidji
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjeller (no) m
Nynorsk: kjellar m
Occitan: cava (oc) f , sòtol m
Ottoman Turkish: پودروم ( podrum ) , كنج ( künc )
Persian: زیرزمین (fa) ( zirzamin ) , سردابه (fa) ( sardâbe ) , سرداب (fa) ( sardâb )
Plautdietsch: Kjala m
Polish: piwnica (pl) f , suterena (pl) f , suteryna f
Portuguese: porão (pt) m , subsolo (pt) m
Romanian: pivniță (ro) f , beci (ro) n , subsol (ro) n
Russian: подва́л (ru) m ( podvál ) (second basement or below), цо́кольный эта́ж (ru) m ( cókolʹnyj etáž ) (first basement, lower ground floor, literally "ground floor"), подва́льный эта́ж m ( podválʹnyj etáž ) (second basement or below)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀друм m , пелница f ( Kajkavian )
Roman: pòdrum (sh) m , pelnica f ( Kajkavian )
Slovak: suterén m
Slovene: klet (sl) m
Spanish: sótano (es) m
Swedish: källare (sv) c
Tagalog: silong
Turkish: bodrum (tr)
Ukrainian: підва́л m ( pidvál ) , пивни́ця f ( pyvnýcja )
Vietnamese: tầng hầm (vi)
Welsh: islawr m , baslawr m
last place
Chinese:
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Finnish: jumbosija (fi)
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