cabas

See also: cabás, cabàs, and Cabas

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French cabas.

Noun

cabas

  1. A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.
  2. A lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or handbag.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cabas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz, Spanish capazo).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ba/ ~ /ka.bɑ/
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Noun

cabas m (plural cabas)

  1. shopping basket
  2. (Louisiana) backpack

Descendants

  • → English: cabas
  • → Spanish: cabás

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

cabas

  1. plural of caba
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