Hey

Etymology
From hei:; probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many unrelated languages: for example, Burmese ဟေး:, Finnish hei: and Mandarin Chinese 哎:, and various sound-alikes as Roman eho, Greek εἴα:, Latin eia:, Dutch he:, German hei:.

Interjection

 * 1) An exclamation to get attention.
 * ''Hey, look at this!
 * 1) A protest or reprimand.
 * ''Hey! Stop that!
 * 1) An expression of surprise.
 * ''Hey! This is new!
 * 1) An informal greeting, similar to hi (used in the US, Australia and Canada).
 * ''Hey! How's it going?
 * 1) A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion (see also eh).
 * ''Hey? How's that?
 * 1) A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in musical lyrics.
 * ''The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, good bye"

Related terms

 * heyda, heyday
 * what the hey
 * hey up

Translations

 * Arabic: ياه
 * Belarusian: гэй, эй
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Dutch: he, he daar
 * Filipino: hoy, uy/ui, oi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hindi: अरे, अजी, हे, रे
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ねえ
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: hei
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, hey
 * Tagalog: hoy, uy
 * Ukrainian: гей, ей


 * Dutch: he, hela, ho, hola, homaar
 * Filipino: hoy
 * Finnish:
 * French: hé
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: hoy


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Filipino: hoy, uy/ui, talaga, a/ah
 * Finnish: oh-hoh


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: hop
 * Russian:, ух ты, ого


 * Dutch:
 * Filipino: hoy, uy/ui, oi, ei
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Tagalog: hoy, uy


 * Filipino: uy/ui, ei
 * Finnish:


 * Portuguese: hã, hem
 * Tagalog: uy


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese: é, hey


 * Tagalog: hoy, uy


 * : zdrasti, здрасти
 * : hé, eh, hep


 * : hej, ej
 * : ¡eh!,
 * : hallå (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), tja (4), hej (4, 6), hej hå (6)

Noun

 * 1)  A choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another.

Translations

 * Danish:


 * Dutch:

Anagrams

 * yeh

Interjection
hey


 * 1) hi, hey, hello
 * hey aftur! - hello again!

Synonyms

 * halló
 * góðan morgun
 * góðan dag
 * gott kvøld

Antonyms

 * farvæl
 * vit síggjast

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