hest

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):

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

hest (plural hests)

1. (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

Danish

hest

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)

1. horse

Declension

Declension of hest

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hest	hesten	heste	hestene
genitive	hests	hestens	hestes	hestenes

Derived terms

• gyngehest

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: hest
• → Greenlandic: hiisti, hesti

References

• “hest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛst/

• (Northern Iceland, Southern Iceland) IPA^(key): [hɛs̠t].

Noun

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/

Noun

hest m (Arabic spelling هه‌ست)

1. emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion

Declension

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

 

Norwegian Bokmål

Politi på hest i København, Danmark

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)

1. 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

• arbeidshest
• fjordhest
• flodhest
• fullblodshest
• gyngehest
• hesteavl
• hesteelsker
• hestehale
• hestehóv
• hestekastanje
• hestekraft
• hesteløp
• hesterygg
• hestesko
• hestesport
• hestetrukket
• islandshest
• pakkhest
• trehest

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

Adjective

hest

1. neuter of hes

References

• “hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

hestar i trav

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)

1. 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

• arbeidshest
• fjordhest
• flodhest
• fullblodshest
• gyngehest
• hesteavl
• hestehale
• hestehov
• hestekastanje
• hestekraft
• hesteløp
• hesterygg
• hestesko
• hestesport
• islandshest
• pakkhest
• trehest

 

References

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

Old English

Noun

hēst f

1. Alternative form of hǣst

Old Norse

Noun

hest

1. accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

Noun

hest c

1. (nonstandard, Internet slang) Alternative form of häst (“horse”), "herse"

   klapa snel hest [klappa snäll häst]

   poot noose herse [pet nice horse]

Usage notes

Popularized by the meme "snel hest" (nice horse).

Declension

Declension of hest

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hest	hests
	definite	hesten	hestens
plural	indefinite	hestar	hestars
	definite	hestarna	hestarnas

See also

• klap

Adjective

hest

1. indefinite neuter singular of hes

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• heşt

Numeral

hest

1. eight