daas

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See also: Daas and DaaS

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daːs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: daas
  • Rhymes: -aːs

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch daes, likely a doublet of dwaas.

Adjective

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daas (comparative dazer, superlative meest daas or daast)

  1. foolish, dull, silly
Declension
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Declension of daas
uninflected daas
inflected daze
comparative dazer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial daas dazer het daast
het daaste
indefinite m./f. sing. daze dazere daaste
n. sing. daas dazer daaste
plural daze dazere daaste
definite daze dazere daaste
partitive daas dazers
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch dauese, probably from the adjectival sense (see Etymology 1). A direct descending from Proto-West Germanic *dawas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowos- (botfly), has also been proposed (Goossens 1985).

Noun

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daas m (plural dazen, diminutive daasje n)

  1. horse-fly, blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae