basement

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• /ˈbeɪsmənt/
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Etymology tree English base Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English basement From base + -ment.

142 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kelder — floor below ground level
• Albanian: bodrum — floor below ground level
• Albanian: qilar — floor below ground level
• Arabic: قَبْوْ (qabw) — floor below ground level
• Arabic: سِرْدَاب (sirdāb) — floor below ground level
• Arabic: بَدْرُوم (badrūm) — floor below ground level
• Arabic: بَدْرُون (badrūn) — floor below ground level
• Arabic: بدرون (badrawn) — floor below ground level
• Arabic: قَبو (gabu) — floor below ground level
• Arabic: بدروم (badrōm) — floor below ground level
• Armenian: նկուղ (nkuġ) — floor below ground level
• Asturian: suétanu — floor below ground level
• Azerbaijani: zirzəmi — floor below ground level
• Azerbaijani: evaltı — floor below ground level
• Azerbaijani: padval — floor below ground level
• Basque: soto — floor below ground level
• Belarusian: падва́л (padvál) — floor below ground level
• Belarusian: склеп (skljep) — floor below ground level
• Belarusian: сутарэ́нне (sutarénnje) — floor below ground level
• Belarusian: сутарэ́ньне (sutarénʹnje) — floor below ground level
• Belarusian: піўні́ца (piwníca) — floor below ground level
• Bulgarian: сутере́н (suterén) — floor below ground level
• Bulgarian: подзе́мно ниво́ (podzémno nivó) — floor below ground level
• Catalan: soterrani — floor below ground level
• Cherokee: ᎭᏫᏂ (hawini) — floor below ground level
• Chinese Cantonese: 地牢 (dei6 lou4) — floor below ground level
• Chinese Mandarin: 地下室 (dìxiàshì) — floor below ground level
• Choctaw: aboha anokaka kula — floor below ground level
• Ngazidja Comorian: fidji — floor below ground level
• Czech: suterén — floor below ground level
• Czech: sklep — floor below ground level
• Danish: kælder — floor below ground level
• Dutch: kelder — floor below ground level
• Esperanto: kelo — floor below ground level
• Esperanto: subetaĝo — floor below ground level
• Estonian: kelder — floor below ground level
• Farefare: tɩntɩndeo — floor below ground level
• Farefare: tẽntẽndeo — floor below ground level
• Faroese: kjallari — floor below ground level
• Faroese: kjallarahædd — floor below ground level
• Finnish: kellarikerros — floor below ground level
• French: sous-sol — floor below ground level
• French: cave — floor below ground level
• Galician: soto — floor below ground level
• Georgian: სარდაფი (sardapi) — floor below ground level
• Georgian: სარდაფის სართული (sardapis sartuli) — floor below ground level
• Georgian: მიწისქვეშა სართული (mic̣iskveša sartuli) — floor below ground level
• Georgian: შენობის საძირკველი (šenobis saʒirḳveli) — floor below ground level
• Georgian: შენობის ფუნდამენტი (šenobis pundamenṭi) — floor below ground level
• German: Keller — floor below ground level
• German: Untergeschoss — floor below ground level
• German: Kellergeschoss — floor below ground level
• Greek: υπόγειο (ypógeio) — floor below ground level
• Gujarati: ભોંયરું (bhõyarũ) — floor below ground level
• Hebrew: מַרְתֵּף (martéf) — floor below ground level
• Hindi: तलघर (talghar) — floor below ground level
• Hungarian: alagsor — floor below ground level
• Icelandic: kjallari — floor below ground level
• Ido: basamento — floor below ground level
• Indonesian: bawah tanah — floor below ground level
• Indonesian: basemen — floor below ground level
• Ingrian: podvala — floor below ground level
• Irish: íoslach — floor below ground level
• Italian: scantinato — floor below ground level
• Italian: seminterrato — floor below ground level
• Japanese: 地下室 (chikashitsu) — floor below ground level
• Javanese: ngisor — floor below ground level
• Kazakh: жертөле (jertöle) — floor below ground level
• Korean: 지하실 (jihasil) — floor below ground level
• Central Kurdish: ژێرزەوی (jêrzewî) — floor below ground level
• Northern Kurdish: jêrzemîn — floor below ground level
• Northern Kurdish: bodrûm — floor below ground level
• Kyrgyz: жертөлө (jertölö) — floor below ground level
• Kyrgyz: подвал (podval) — floor below ground level
• Latin: basis — floor below ground level
• Latvian: pagrabs — floor below ground level
• Lithuanian: rūsys — floor below ground level
• Macedonian: подрум (podrum) — floor below ground level
• Macedonian: сутере́н (suterén) — floor below ground level
• Malay: bawah tanah — floor below ground level
• Maltese: kantina — floor below ground level
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjeller — floor below ground level
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjellar — floor below ground level
• Occitan: cava — floor below ground level
• Occitan: sòtol — floor below ground level
• Dari: زیرْزَمِین (zērzamīn) — floor below ground level
• Dari: سَرْدَاب (sardāb) — floor below ground level
• Iranian Persian: زیرْزَمین (zirzamin) — floor below ground level
• Iranian Persian: سَرْدابِه (sardâbe) — floor below ground level
• Iranian Persian: سَرْداب (sardâb) — floor below ground level
• Iranian Persian: تَهخانِه (ta-xâne) — floor below ground level
• Iranian Persian: تَهْ خانِه (tah xâne) — floor below ground level
• Plautdietsch: Kjala — floor below ground level
• Polish: piwnica — floor below ground level
• Polish: suterena — floor below ground level
• Polish: suteryna — floor below ground level
• Portuguese: porão — floor below ground level
• Portuguese: subsolo — floor below ground level
• Romanian: pivniță — floor below ground level
• Romanian: beci — floor below ground level
• Romanian: subsol — floor below ground level
• Russian: подва́л (podvál) — floor below ground level
• Russian: подва́льный эта́ж (podválʹnyj etáž) — floor below ground level
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀друм — floor below ground level
• Serbo-Croatian: пелница — floor below ground level
• Serbo-Croatian: pòdrum — floor below ground level
• Serbo-Croatian: pelnica — floor below ground level
• Slovak: suterén — floor below ground level
• Slovene: klet — floor below ground level
• Spanish: sótano — floor below ground level
• Spanish: béisment — floor below ground level
• Swedish: källare — floor below ground level
• Tagalog: silong — floor below ground level
• Turkish: bodrum — floor below ground level
• Ottoman Turkish: پودروم (podrum) — floor below ground level
• Ottoman Turkish: كنج (künc) — floor below ground level
• Ukrainian: підва́л (pidvál) — floor below ground level
• Ukrainian: пивни́ця (pyvnýcja) — floor below ground level
• Urdu: تَہْ خانَہ (tah xāna) — floor below ground level
• Uzbek: podval — floor below ground level
• Uzbek: yertoʻla — floor below ground level
• Vietnamese: tầng hầm — floor below ground level
• Welsh: islawr — floor below ground level
• Welsh: baslawr — floor below ground level
• Chinese Mandarin: 基岩 (jīyán) — mass of rock
• Czech: krystalinikum — mass of rock
• Danish: grundfjeld — mass of rock
• Finnish: peruskallio — mass of rock
• French: socle — mass of rock
• German: Grundgebirge — mass of rock
• Italian: basamento — mass of rock
• Norwegian Bokmål: grunnfjell — mass of rock
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grunnfjell — mass of rock
• Occitan: basament — mass of rock
• Occitan: sòcle — mass of rock
• Portuguese: embasamento — mass of rock
• Romansh: sochel — mass of rock
• Spanish: zócalo — mass of rock
• Swedish: urberg — mass of rock
• Bulgarian: дъ́но (dǎ́no) — last place
• Chinese Mandarin: 最後名 /最后名 (zuì hòu míng) — last place
• Finnish: jumbosija — last place