hest

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

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.

• behest

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

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛsd/, [ˈhesd̥], [ˈhest]

hest c (singular definite hesten, plural indefinite heste)

1. horse

• gyngehest

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

• “hest” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

IPA^(key): /hɛst/

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

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/

hest m (Arabic spelling هه‌ست)

1. emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛst/

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

1. a horse

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

hest

1. neuter of hes

• “hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• heist, hæst (dialectal)

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/

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”)

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

hēst f

1. (Kentish) Alternative form of hǣst

hest

1. accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

hest c

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

   klapa snel hest [klappa snäll häst]

   poot noose herse [pet nice horse]

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

• klap

hest

1. indefinite neuter singular of hes

• heşt

hest

1. eight