das

American  

[das, dahs] / dæs, dɑs /

noun

• dases,
  plural
• dasses
  plural

1. hyrax.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dases
  plural
• dasses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of das

< Afrikaans; compare Dutch, Middle Dutch das badger, cognate with German Dachs; compare Norwegian svintoks

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

das dasses

We knew how to say goodbye, which is das vedanya, yes and no.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The rocky point is called Ponto das Lajes on the north shore of the Amazon near where the Rio Negro and Solimoes rivers join.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

There's a phrase for when the snow is plentiful too - das weisse Gold - white gold.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023

For others, like the composer Roxanna Panufnik, who contributed a setting of Severus Gastorius’s melody “Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan,” the project was an opportunity to bring her closer to Bach.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

Finally he led his team to Joe’s door while he sang in creative German, “We are the world. We are das Welt.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

A rick stood handy in the yard, and on going to it I found that three or four dasses of hay had been carved out ready for removal to the stalls.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Ye shallna try the unkindly dasses o' the Linn yet awhile, nor yet lie in 'Duncan's Pantry,' which has small store of victual in it.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett