Quast
German, noun/kvast/
Quast is spelled Q-U-A-S-T (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 69,095th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quast is a German masculine noun meaning “broad brush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “breiter, bürstenartiger Pinsel zum Tünchen von Wänden oder Einkleistern von Tapeten”.
What does Quast mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebroad brush
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. breiter, bürstenartiger Pinsel zum Tünchen von Wänden oder Einkleistern von Tapeten
abbreviation: 1. Abkürzung für Quästor/Quästoren 2. Abkürzung für Quästur
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Quast
- Quastes genitive
- Quasts genitive
- Quaste plural
- Quasten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Quast?
- /kvast/
- [kvast]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Quast in German?
Quast appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).