Basel

English

Alternative forms

• Basle

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Basel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːzəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Basel

1. The capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland.
2. A former canton in northwestern Switzerland.

Related terms

• Basel-Stadt
• Basel-Landschaft

Translations

city in Switzerland

• Armenian: Բազել (hy) (Bazel)
• Basque: Basilea
• Bulgarian: Ба́зел m (Bázel)
• Catalan: Basilea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴塞爾 / 巴塞尔 (zh) (Bāsài'ěr)

• Czech: Basilej (cs)
• Danish: Basel
• Dutch: Bazel (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bazelo
• Finnish: Basel
• Franco-Provençal: Bâla
• French: Bâle (fr) f
• Galician: Basilea f
• Georgian: ბაზელი (bazeli)
• German: Basel (de) n

  Alemannic German: Bàsel

• Greek: Βασιλεία (el) f (Vasileía)
• Hebrew: באזל (bazel)
• Hungarian: Bázel (hu)
• Icelandic: Buslaraborg f
• Italian: Basilea (it) f
• Japanese: バーゼル (Bāzeru)
• Korean: 바젤 (ko) (bajel)
• Latin: Basilia f
• Latvian: Bāzele f
• Lithuanian: Bazelis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Basel n

  Nynorsk: Basel n

• Occitan: Basilèa f
• Persian: بازل (fa) (bâzel)
• Polish: Bazylea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Basileia (pt) f
• Romanian: Basel n
• Romansh: Basilea f
• Russian: Ба́зель (ru) m (Bázɛlʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Базел m

  Latin: Basel (sh) m

• Slovak: Bazilej
• Slovene: Basel m
• Spanish: Basilea (es)
• Swedish: Basel (sv)
• Thai: บาเซิล (baa-səəl)
• Turkish: Basel (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ба́зель m (Bázelʹ)
• Venetan: Baxiłea f
• Yiddish: באַזל n (bazl)

Anagrams

• blasé, blase, ables, Sabel, sable, Sable, albes, bales, Ables, Blase, beals, Basle, baels, saleb, Bleas, Sablé, labes

Czech

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbasɛl]

Proper noun

Basel m anim (female equivalent Baselová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Basel (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Basel	Baselové
genitive	Basela	Baselů
dative	Baselovi	Baselům
accusative	Basela	Basely
vocative	Basele	Baselové
locative	Baselovi	Baselech
instrumental	Baselem	Basely

Further reading

• “Basel”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Danish

Proper noun

Basel

1. Basel (a city in Switzerland)

German

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *gʷatiléus

Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλεύς (băsĭleús)

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)

Ancient Greek βᾰσῐ́λειος (băsĭ́leios)

Ancient Greek Βασίλειος (Basíleios)bor.

Latin Basilius

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Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

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Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)influ.

Latin -ia

Latin Basiliader.

German Basel

From Latin Basilia, attested in the 4th century C.E.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːzəl/, /ˈbaːzl̩/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Basel n (proper noun, genitive Basels or (optionally with an article) Basel)

1. Basel (the capital city of Basel-Stadt canton, Switzerland)

Further reading

• “Basel”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Basel” in Duden online
• “Basel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Anagrams

• Albes, Blase, Salbe, blase

Swedish

Proper noun

Basel n (genitive Basels)

1. Basel (a city in Switzerland)

Anagrams

• elbas, sabel