# Pest
## English
### Alternative forms

* Pesth (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/
* Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛʃt
* Homophone: pest

### Proper noun

Pest
* (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
    Coordinate terms: Buda, Óbuda
* The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
    Coordinate term: Buda
** 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎:On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.
* A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

## German
### Etymology 1

16th century, from Latin pestis, in part through Middle French peste. Popular shortening of Middle High German pestilencie (14th c.), from related Latin pestilentia, may also have contributed (though this is impossible to prove).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛst/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛst

#### Noun

Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten)
* (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague
    Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod
    Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten.The plague devastated especially towns and cities.
* (in compounds) any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals
    Hyponyms: Geflügelpest, Hasenpest, Rinderpest, Schweinepest
* (figurative) anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster
    Synonyms: Seuche, Plage
    Ölpest ― oil spill
    Drogenpest ― drug plague
* (figurative, informal) anything terrible or odious
    die Wahl zwischen Pest und Choleraa choice between the devil and the deep blue sea(literally, “between the plague and cholera”)
    Sowas hasse ich wie die Pest.That’s something I really loathe.(literally, “something I hate like the plague.”)

##### Declension

$^1$Rare.

##### Derived terms

* Beulenpest
* Geflügelpest
* Hühnerpest
* Lungenpest
* Ölpest
* pestartig
* Pestbeule
* Pestepidemie
* Rinderpest
* Schweinepest
* verpesten

##### Related terms

* Pestilenz

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/

#### Noun

Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest)
* Pest (a quarter of Budapest, Hungary)

### Further reading

* “Pest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Pest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
* “Pest, Krankheit” in Duden online
* “Pest, Stadtteil, Budapest” in Duden online

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛʃt]
* Hyphenation: Pest
* Rhymes: -ɛʃt

### Proper noun

Pest
* (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
* The corresponding part of current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
    Coordinate term: Buda
* (informal, loosely) Ellipsis of Budapest.
* An administrative county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest, often meant to exclude the capital itself.

#### Derived terms

* pesti
* Kispest
* Újpest

## Hunsrik
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰeʃt/

### Noun

Pest f
* plague

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary