Definitions For Hetman

Noun

HETMAN (plural HETMANs) (history) A cossack headman or general. {{non-gloss definition, Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).}}

Translations

Belarusian: ге́тман, m, sc=Cyrl Bulgarian: хе́тман, m, sc=Cyrl Chinese: : Mandarin: 蓋特曼, sc=Hani}}, {{t, cmn, 盖特曼 (gàitèmàn, sc=Hani) Czech: hejtman, m Danish: hetman, c Finnish: hetmani Georgian: ჰეტმანი Greek: χετμάνος, m Hungarian: hetman Italian: etmano, m Japanese: ヘトマン (hetoman, sc=Jpan) Korean: 헤트만, sc=Kore Lithuanian: etmonas, m Polish: hetman, m Portuguese: hétmã, m, hétmane, m Romanian: hatman, m Russian: ге́тман, m Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: хетман, m : Roman: hetman, m Spanish: hetman, m Swedish: hetman, c Ukrainian: ге́тьман, m Uzbek: getman

See also

ataman hegumen

Etymology

From {{der, en, pl, hetman}}, probably from {{der, en, gmh, houbetman, }}, heuptman, , commander, from houbet, , heupt, , head, related to Latin caput, , head, + {{der, en, gmh, man, , man}}. Compare modern German Hauptmann, , captain, Haupt, , Mann, . The Polish e in , hetman attests to a borrowing from an east central german dialect, in which {{cog, gmh, -}} -öu- gives -ē-.

Anagrams

Hemant, anthem, mentha, nameth, the man

Is Hetman a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
12

The word Hetman is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

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