different between hest vs dest
hest
English
Etymology
From Middle English heste, alteration of Middle English hes, from Old English h?s (“command”). Akin to Old English h?tan "to command". More at hight.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
hest (plural hests)
- (obsolete) Command, injunction.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene i[1]:
- FERDINAND: […] What is your name?
- MIRANDA: Miranda — O my father! / I have broke your hest to say so.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene i[1]:
Related terms
- behest
Translations
Anagrams
- Esth, Esth., Seth, Tesh, eths, hets, shet, tesh
Danish
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): [?h?sd?]
Noun
hest c (singular definite hesten, plural indefinite heste)
- horse
Inflection
Derived terms
- gyngehest
Descendants
- ? Greenlandic: hiisti
References
- “hest” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophones: Hest, heyst
Noun
hest
- indefinite accusative singular of hestur
Icelandic
Noun
hest
- indefinite accusative singular of hestur
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic ????? (?ass). Cognate with Persian ??? (hes).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?st/
Noun
hest m (Arabic spelling ??????)
- emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion
Declension
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Norwegian hester (“horse”), from Old Norse hestr (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“horse, stallion”), from Proto-Indo-European *?an?est-, *kankest- (“horse”). Doublet of hingst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?st/
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): /?he?st/
Adjective
hest
- neuter of hes
References
- “hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Norwegian hester, from Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz. Doublet of hingst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?st/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hestar, definite plural hestane)
- a horse
Derived terms
References
- “hest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Noun
hest
- accusative singular indefinite of hestr m
Zazaki
Alternative forms
- he?t
Numeral
hest
- eight
hest From the web:
- what hestia the goddess of
- what heaters are safe to leave on overnight
- what heat is simmer
- what heats earth's interior
- what heat to cook pancakes
- what heat to cook bacon
- what heat to cook steak
- what heat transfer is boiling water
dest
English
Noun
dest (plural dests)
- Abbreviation of destination.
Anagrams
- ETDs, STED, STed, TEDs, Teds, estd, estd., sted, teds
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *jástah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??óstos (“hand”), from *??es-. Cognate with Persian ???? (dast), Avestan ????????????????????? (zasta) and Sanskrit ???? (hasta).
Noun
dest m
- hand
Welsh
Alternative forms
- daethost (literary)
- delest (colloquial)
- desest (colloquial)
- dethest (colloquial)
- doist (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /d?sd/, [d?st]
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /de?sd/, [de?st], /d?sd/, [d?st]
Verb
dest
- (colloquial) second-person singular preterite of dod
Mutation
Zazaki
Etymology
Compare Persian ???? (dast)
Noun
dest ?
- hand
dest From the web:
- what destroyed pompeii
- what destroys the ozone layer
- what destroys pathogens
- what destroyed krypton
- what destroyed the dinosaurs
- what destroyed the mayan empire
- what destroyed the roman empire
- what destroys collagen