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Is bash a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bash is a Scrabble US word. The word bash is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (1 found)

BASH,

3-letter words (8 found)

ABS,AHS,ASH,BAH,BAS,HAS,SAB,SHA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AH,AS,BA,HA,SH,

You can make 15 words from bash according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bash

bash absh bsah sbah asbh sabh bahs abhs bhas hbas ahbs habs bsha sbha bhsa hbsa shba hsba ashb sahb ahsb hasb shab hsab

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Definitions and meaning of bash

bash

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæʃ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)

Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

  1. (informal) To strike heavily.
  2. (informal) To collide; used with into or together.
  3. (transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → German: bashen
Translations

Noun

bash (plural bashes)

  1. (informal) A forceful blow or impact.
  2. (informal) A large party; a gala event.
  3. (UK, informal) An attempt at doing something.
    Synonym: (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) lash
    give something a bash
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.

Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To abash (make ashamed)

References

  • “bash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Anagrams

  • AHBs, Bahs, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, habs, shab

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian baš (“exactly, just, right”), present in most Balkan languages. Miklošič argued that the ultimate source is Turkish baş (“head, leader”).

Adverb

bash

  1. (used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) exactly, precisely, right

Etymology 2

From earlier *balsha, a derivative of ballë.

Noun

bash m (plural bashë, definite bashi, definite plural bashët)

  1. (nautical) bow (of ship)
  2. center (of room or chamber)
Related terms
  • ballë

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • bashu

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bāsiō (“to kiss”). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case săruta) is not derived from the same Latin word.

Verb

bash first-singular present indicative (past participle bãshatã)

  1. to kiss
  2. to embrace

Synonyms

  • (kiss): hiritsescu, gugustedz
  • (embrace): ambrãtsitedz, ambrats

Related terms

  • bãshari / bãshare
  • bãshat
  • dizbash
  • spribash

Komo

Noun

bash

  1. blood

Yola

Noun

bash

  1. Alternative form of baush

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 25

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