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4-letter words (4 found)

BAST,BATS,STAB,TABS,

3-letter words (8 found)

ABS,ATS,BAS,BAT,SAB,SAT,TAB,TAS,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AS,AT,BA,ST,TA,

You can make 18 words from bast according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bast

bast abst bsat sbat asbt sabt bats abts btas tbas atbs tabs bsta sbta btsa tbsa stba tsba astb satb atsb tasb stab tsab

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Definitions and meaning of bast

bast

Alternative forms

  • bass

Etymology

From Middle English bast, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɑːst/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bæst/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːst, -æst

Noun

bast (countable and uncountable, plural basts)

  1. Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
      I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.

Related terms

  • (possibly) bastard

Translations

Anagrams

  • ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, BTAS, Bats, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bats, stab, tabs

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbast]

Etymology 1

Deverbal from bastar.

Adjective

bast (feminine basta, masculine plural basts or bastos, feminine plural bastes)

  1. (archaic) supplied, furnished, provided
    Synonyms: abastat, proveït
  2. rough, crude
    Synonym: groller

Etymology 2

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bastum.

Noun

bast m (plural basts or bastos)

  1. packsaddle
Derived terms
  • embastar

Further reading

  • “bast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bast/, [b̥asd̥]

Noun

bast c (singular definite basten, not used in plural form)

  1. bast
  2. raffia

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑst/
  • Hyphenation: bast
  • Rhymes: -ɑst

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bast, from Old Dutch *bast, from Proto-West Germanic *bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz.

Noun

bast m (plural basten, diminutive bastje n)

  1. inner bark
  2. (zoology) velvet
  3. (figuratively) skin, hide
Derived terms
  • boombast

Etymology 2

Verb

bast

  1. inflection of bassen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

  • bats

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /past/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bast (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”).

Noun

bast n (genitive singular basts, uncountable)

  1. bast, raffia
  2. rope made of bast
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bast

  1. supine of basa

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bæst, from Proto-West Germanic *bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz.

Alternative forms

  • baste

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bast/

Noun

bast (plural bastes)

  2. A cord or cable manufactured using bast.
  3. (rare) Bast; fibre made from the phloem of plants.
Descendants
  • English: bast, bass
  • Scots: bass

References

  • “bast, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bast (French bât), probably a back-formation from bastard.

Alternative forms

  • baste, baaste

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːst/

Noun

bast (uncountable)

  2. Illegitimacy; the state of being illegitimate.
Derived terms
  • bastard

References

  • “bāst, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bast, from Old Norse bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz. Cognate with English bast and German Bast.

Noun

bast n

  1. bast (fibre material)
Declension
Related terms
  • bastfiber
  • basthud
  • bastkjol
  • bastkorg
  • bastmatta
  • lindbast

Etymology 2

From Tavringer Romani bassj, bassjt, from Romani berś. Cognate to Sanskrit वर्ष (varṣa, “year”).

Noun

bast n

  1. (colloquial) years old
Usage notes

Often when emphasizing an old or (ironically) young age, in a given context.

References

  • bast in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • bast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • bast in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • Gerd Carling (2005) “bast”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 73

Anagrams

  • stab

Source: wiktionary.org