basin
English
/ˈbeɪsɪn/
noun
Definitions
- a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall
- (obsolete) a shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food
- a depression, natural or artificial, containing water
- (geography) an area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin
- (geography) a rock formation scooped out by water erosion
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English basin derived from Old French bacin derived from Latin *baccinum.
Origin
Latin
*baccinum
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- basinal English
- basined English
- basinful English
- basinless English
- basinlike English
- basinward English
- basinwide English
- extrabasinal English
- hand English
- handbasin English
- interbasin English
- interbasinal English
- macrobasin English
- metabasin English
- palaeobasin English
- paleobasin English
- slop English
- slop-basin English
- subbasin English
- wash English
- washbasin English
- *baccinum Latin
- *baccinus Latin
- bacca Latin
- Becken German
- Beckenboden German
- Beckenbruch German
- Fischbecken German
- Hafenbecken German
- Nierenbecken German
- Spülbecken German
- Waschbecken German
- Wasserbecken German
- bassin French
- bacia Portuguese
- bacin-ful Middle English
- basin Middle English
- báisín Irish
- bacin Old French
- bacieiro Galician
- bacía Galician
- becken Middle High German
- beseni Swahili
- ubheseni Zulu
- beseni Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja