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 III, scene i]:

     FERDINAND: […] What is your name?
     MIRANDA: Miranda — O my father! / I have 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

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

   Synonym: øyk

   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

hest

1. accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

hest c

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

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

• klap

hest

1. indefinite neuter singular of hes

• heşt

hest

1. eight