chas

See also: Chas, Chas., chás, Chaś, and 'chas

English

Noun

chas

1. plural of cha

Anagrams

• ACHs, HCAs, Cash, cahs, CAHs, achs, cash, CASH

Breton

Etymology

From French chasse (“hunt, hunting”), reinterpreted as a collective meaning “dogs”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃasː/

Noun

chas

1. plural of ki

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French chas, perhaps a derivation from Latin capsus (“sort of cage, hollow body”), related to capsa (“case, box”). The sense evolution could have been from "cage" to "bubble," as attested in the writings of Apicius (a Roman cookbook author), and then finally used to represent a small hollow object, or a cavity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa/ ~ /ʃɑ/

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• Homophone: chat

Noun

chas m (invariable)

1. eye (of a needle)

Further reading

• “chas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• cash

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xasˠ/, /xɑsˠ/

Adjective

chas

1. lenited form of cas

Verb

chas

1. analytic past indicative of cas

Occitan

Preposition

chas (Limousin)

1. to, at, in (a place)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃas/ [ˈt͡ʃas]
• IPA^(key): (Canary Islands) /ˈt͡ʃas/ [ˈc̟a(h)]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: chas

Interjection

¡chas!

1. (Canary Islands) damn, wow

   Synonyms: chos, chuos, yos, yuos, ños, ñuos

Noun

chas m pl

1. plural of cha

Further reading

• “chas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χaːs/

Verb

chas

1. aspirate mutation of cas

Mutation

Mutated forms of cas

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cas	gas	nghas	chas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Yola

Contraction

chas

1. alternative form of 'chas
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Chas mhyne weery.

     I was very weary.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56