# hest
## 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: /hɛst/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛst

### Noun

hest (plural hests)
* (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
### 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: /ˈhɛsd/, [ˈhesd̥], [ˈhest]

### Noun

hest c (singular definite hesten, plural indefinite heste)
* horse

#### Derived terms

* gyngehest

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “hest” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛst/
* Rhymes: -ɛst
* Homophones: Hest, heyst

### Noun

hest
* indefinite accusative singular of hestur

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

IPA: /hɛst/
* (Northern Iceland, Southern Iceland) IPA: [hɛs̠t].

### Noun

hest
* indefinite accusative singular of hestur

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛst/

### Noun

hest m (Arabic spelling هه‌ست)
* emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion

#### Derived terms

* bihest
* bêhest
* hestiyar
* hestker
* hestkirin
* hestî

## Norwegian Bokmål
### 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: /ˈhɛst/

#### 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

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

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈheːst/

#### Adjective

hest
* neuter of hes

### References

* “hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### 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: /hɛst/

### Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hestar, definite plural hestane)
* 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
* (Kentish) Alternative form of hǣst

## Old Norse
### Noun

hest
* accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈheːst/

### Noun

hest c
* (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).

#### See also

* klap

### Adjective

hest
* indefinite neuter singular of hes

## Zazaki
### Alternative forms

* heşt

### Numeral

hest
* eight