baas

IPA: bˈɑz

Examples of "baas" in Sentences

The word "boss" is derived from the Dutch baas, meaning
The word boss comes from the Dutch word baas which literally means master.
Farmers 'insistence on being addressed as "baas" or "missus" was not conciliatory.
Some told stories of being asked to address young white police officers as "baas" (Afrikaans for ` boss ').
The pamphlet said "the baboon is in office" and the "baas" (former provincial commissioner Chris Serfontein) had left.
The rest of the song has Mafokate pleading, tongue in cheek with the white "baas" (overlord) not to call him "kaffir" while the
He recalls, as typical suffering of his generation, the task of delivering a letter from his white "baas" (master) to another nearby white farmer.
He insults every black police man and woman in this country by insinuating that they will not be able to do their work without the supervision of the white "baas".
Mr Phosa said the "baas" mentality of the past no longer existed, and that if anyone called another a "kaffir", the aggrieved party should take the matter to court.
Party, Mr Qunta said it showed the critical role that needed to be played by Azapo in urging blacks to be self-reliant and not regard the white man as the "baas" of the old days.