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See also: heşt

English

Etymology

From Middle English heste, alteration of Middle English hes, from Old English hǣs (“command”). Akin to Old English hātan "to command". More at hight.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

hest (plural hests)

(obsolete) Command, injunction.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4, column 1:
  [T]hou [Ariel] vvaſt a Spirit too delicate / To act her [the witch Sycorax's] earthy, and abhord commands, / Refuſing her grand heſts, ſhe did confine thee / By helpe of her more potent Miniſters, / And in her moſt vnmittigable rage, / Into a cloven Pyne, […]
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 11, column 1:
  Fer[dinand]. […] VVhat is your name? / Mir[anda]. Miranda, O my Father, / I haue broke your heſt to ſay ſo.

Related terms

behest

Translations

command, injunction

Russian: прика́з (ru) m (prikáz), приказа́ние (ru) n (prikazánije)

Anagrams

Esth, Esth., Seth, Tesh, eths, hets, shet, tesh

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Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

hest

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Etymology

From Old Norse hestr (“stallion”), from Proto-Germanic *hanhistaz, a Verner alternation variant of *hangistaz, which is the source of the West Germanic word for “stallion”, cf. German Hengst and Danish hingst (a loanword from Low German).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɛsd/, [ˈhesd̥], [ˈhest]

Noun

hest c (singular definite hesten, plural indefinite heste)

horse
Synonym: tamhest
(chess, uncommon) knight

Declension

More information common gender, singular ...

Declension of *hest*
common gender	singular	plural
indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hest	hesten	heste	hestene
genitive	hests	hestens	hestes	hestenes

Derived terms

apostlenes heste
araberhest
arbejde som en hest
arbejdshest
bryggerhest
cirkushest
dressurhest
droschehest
fra hestens egen mule
fuldblodshest
galophest
gyngehest
halvblodshest
hestearbejde
hesteavl
hestebid
hestedressur
hestedækken
hesteejer
hestefolk
hesteforspand
hestegrin
hestegræs
hestegødning
hestehale
hestehandler
hestekraft
hestekød
hestekøretøj
hestelort
hestemanke
hestemule
hestepasser
hestepige
hestepille
hestepære
hesteryg
hestesko
hestesport
hestestald
hestestutteri
hestetrukken
hestetyv
hestevogn
hestfolk
hestgarde
holde på den forkerte hest
hyphest
ikke ti vilde heste kan
islandsk hest
jagthest
jysk hest
klappe hesten
kørehest
ligeved og næsten slår ingen mand af hesten
lyve så stærkt som en hest kan rende
når krybben er tom, bides hestene
pakhest
pruhest
ridderen på den hvide hest
ridehest
skifte hest
skolehest
spille på flere heste
springe på hest
springhest
sætte sig på den høje hest
tamhest
travhest
trojansk hest
træhest
trækhest
unghest
vorherre til hest
væddeløbshest

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål: hest
→ Greenlandic: hiisti, hesti

References

“hest” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛst/
Rhymes: -ɛst
Homophones: Hest, heyst

Noun

hest

indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛst/
(Northern Iceland, Southern Iceland) IPA^(key): [hɛs̠t]

Noun

hest

indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic حَسّ (ḥass). Cognate with Persian (hes).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛst/

Noun

hest m (Arabic spelling هه‌ست)

emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion

Declension

More information definite masculine gender, case ...

Declension of *hest*
definite masculine gender
case	singular	plural
nominative	hest	hest
construct	hestê	hestên
oblique	hestî	hestan
demonstrative oblique	wî hestî	wan hestan
vocative	hesto	hestino

indefinite masculine gender
case	singular	plural
nominative	hestek	hestin
construct	hestekî	hestine
oblique	hestekî	hestinan

Derived terms

bihest
bêhest
hestiyar
hestker
hestkirin
hestî

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Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

hest

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Etymology 1

From Danish hest, from Old Danish hæst (“horse”), from Old Norse hestr (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“horse, stallion”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). Doublet of hingst.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɛst/

Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hester, definite plural hestene)

a horse

Usage notes

In the period between 1938 and 1983, the definite plural form hesta was allowed. This morphological peculiarity included these other masculine nouns: gamp, gutt, kar, tupp.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

Adjective

hest

neuter of hes

References

“hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

hest

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Alternative forms

heist, hæst (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian hester, from Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“horse, stallion”). Doublet of hingst.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛst/

Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hestar, definite plural hestane)

a horse, especially the male
Synonyms: øyk, [Term?] (male and female)

rida høgan hest ― to act arrogant (literally, “ride on a high horse”)

Derived terms

References

“hest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
“hest” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

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Old English

Etymology 1

Noun

hēst f (late Kentish)

alternative form of hǣst

Etymology 2

Adjective

hēst (Anglian)

alternative form of hīehst

Old Norse

Noun

hest

accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

Noun

hest c

(nonstandard, Internet slang) alternative form of häst (“horse”), "herse"
klapa snel hest [klappa snäll häst]
poot noose herse [pet nice horse]