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English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fest, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity (see these).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /f?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophones: fessed, -fest

Noun

fest (plural fests)

1. (in combination) A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

   Synonym: festival

2. (in combination) An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.

Derived terms

• -fest

Related terms

• festschrift

Translations

Anagrams

• ETFs, FETs, FTEs, FTSE, Stef, efts, fets, tefs

Czech

Etymology

From German fest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?st]

Noun

fest m anim

1. (archaic) undestroyable person
2. (archaic) mummy

Declension

Adverb

fest (comparative více fest, superlative nejvíce fest)

1. (informal) firmly, tightly

2. (informal) much

Derived terms

• na fest

Further reading

• fest in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• fest in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fest, from Latin f?stum (“holiday, festival, banquet, feast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?st/, [f?sd?]

Noun

fest c (singular definite festen, plural indefinite fester)

1. party
2. celebration
3. festival
4. feast
5. fête

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “fest” in Den Danske Ordbog

German

Etymology

From Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see there for cognates and further etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

fest (comparative fester, superlative am festesten)

1. firm; compact; hard
2. firm; fixed; rigid
3. firm; steadfast

Declension

Derived terms

• Festnetz

See also

• Fest – n. festival
• feste – adv. hard, firmly
• flüssig, gasförmig

Further reading

• “fest” in Duden online

Hungarian

Etymology

[after 1372] Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pë??- (“color; to color, paint”) + -t (causative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f??t]
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

fest

1. (transitive) to paint

   Coordinate term: mázol

2. (transitive) to dye
3. (intransitive) to look in some way

   Synonyms: kinéz, látszik, t?nik

Usage notes

The stative types of the sense verbs feel, smell, and taste are uncommon in Hungarian (i.e., those expressing some sensory information conveyed, in contrast to the voluntary actions of using these senses or the involuntary perception). Instead, adjectival (-ú/-?/-jú/-j?) and possessive (…-a/-e/-ja/-je van) constructions are used, and these are also applicable for sound. (The first two rows are for action verbs and perception verbs that behave similarly to English.)

On the other hand, certain verbs can express particular sensory impressions, e.g. illatozik (“to smell sweet, to be fragrant”) and b?zlik (“to stink, to reek”).

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz. Cognate with German fest, Dutch vast, English fast, Icelandic fastur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæst/
• Homophone: Fest

Adjective

fest (masculine festen, neuter fest, comparative méi fest, superlative am feststen)

1. firm, hard
2. solid
3. rigid
4. fixed, fast

Declension

Middle English

Verb

fest

1. to feast

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum. Cognate with German Fest.

Noun

fest n

1. holiday, festival

References

• “fest” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin festum

Noun

fest m (definite singular festen, indefinite plural fester, definite plural festene)

1. celebration, party
2. (religion) feast, festival

Synonyms

• (party): party

Derived terms

• bryllupsfest
• festlig
• folkefest
• hagefest

Related terms

• feste (sense 2)

Etymology 2

Verb

fest

1. imperative of feste

References

• “fest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin festum.

Noun

fest m (definite singular festen, indefinite plural festar, definite plural festane)

1. celebration, party, festivity

   Synonyms: party, selskap

2. (religion) feast, festival

Derived terms

• festa, feste (verb)

Related terms

• ferie

Etymology 2

From Old Norse festr f, derived from fast.

Noun

fest f (definite singular festa, indefinite plural fester, definite plural festene)

1. an betrothal
2. a rope

Derived terms

In the sense of an engagement to marry:

Related terms

• festa, feste (verb)
• feste n

Etymology 3

Inflected forms of festa, feste (“to fasten”).

Participle

fest (definite singular and plural feste)

1. past participle of festa and feste
   1. fastened
   2. engaged

Alternative forms

• festa

Derived terms

• grunnfest
• grunnlovsfest
• lovfest

Verb

fest

1. imperative of festa and feste
2. supine of festa and feste

Etymology 4

Inflected form of festa, feste (“to party”)

Verb

fest

1. imperative of festa and feste

References

• “fest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

Inflected forms of festa (“to fasten”).

Participle

fest

1. strong feminine nominative singular of festr
2. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of festr
3. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of festr

Verb

fest

1. second-person singular imperative active of festa
2. supine of festa

Anagrams

• stef

Polish

Etymology

From German fest, from Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?st/

Adjective

fest (not comparable)

1. (Upper Silesia or colloquial) perky, robust, vigorous

   Synonyms: dziarski, krzepki, silny

Declension

Indeclinable.

Adverb

fest (not comparable)

1. (Upper Silesia or colloquial) firmly, strongly

   Synonyms: bardzo, mocno, porz?dnie

Noun

fest m inan

1. (archaic) celebration, ceremony, function

   Synonyms: ?wi?to, uroczysto??

Declension

Derived terms

• (adverb) na fest

Further reading

• fest in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• fejst

Etymology

Borrowed from German fest.

Adverb

fest (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Kajkavian) very
2. (Kajkavian) intensively
3. (Kajkavian) tightly, strongly, firmly

Synonyms

• jako, ?vrsto, intenzivno

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin festum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s?t/
• Homophone: fäst

Noun

fest c

1. party, celebration

Declension

Derived terms

• festa

Yola

Noun

fest

1. Alternative form of hist

English

Alternative forms

• foost (Scots)

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?st, IPA^(key): /f?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English fist, from Old English f?st (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Dutch vuist, German Faust. More at five.

Noun

fist (plural fists)

1. A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

   The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round.

2. (printing) The pointing hand symbol ?.
3. (amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
4. (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
5. A group of men. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. The talons of a bird of prey.
7. (informal) An attempt at something.
   • 2015, Daniel Taylor, Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero too good for Chelsea as Diego Costa labours (in The Guardian, 16 August 2015) [1]:

     City look stronger, fitter and more motivated than last season and even at this early stage the gap feels like a sizeable advantage. Yes, it is way too early to make snap judgments about the impact on the title race. It has, however, been long enough to ascertain that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are going to make a much better fist of it this time.

   • 2005, Darryl N. Davis, Visions of Mind: Architectures for Cognition and Affect, page 144:

     With the rise of cognitive neuroscience, the time may be coming when we can make a reasonable fist of mapping down from an understanding of the functional architecture of the mind to the structural architecture of the brain.

Synonyms

• bunch of fives
• fist-size
• ductus

Derived terms

Related terms

• fisticuff
• tight-fisted

Translations

Verb

fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)

1. To strike with the fist.

   ...may not score a point with his open hand(s), but may score a point by fisting the ball. Damian Cullen. "Running the rule." The Irish Times 18 Aug 2003, pg. 52.

2. To close (the hand) into a fist.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 29:

     He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.

3. To grip with a fist.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34

     I am an officer; but, how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when I was before the mast.

4. (slang) To fist-fuck.

Translations

See also

• knuckle
• punch

Etymology 2

From Middle English fisten, fiesten, from Old English *fistan ("to break wind gently"; supported by Old English fisting (“breaking wind”)), from Proto-Germanic *fistaz (“breaking wind, fart”), from Proto-Germanic *f?san? (“to break or discharge wind, fart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Cognate with Dutch veest (“a fart”), Low German f?sten (“to break wind”), German Fist (“a quiet wind”), Fisten (“breaking wind”), Swedish fisa (“to fart”), Latin sp?r? (“breathe, blow”), Albanian fryj (“to blow, breath”).

Verb

fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)

1. (intransitive) To break wind.

Derived terms

• fisting

Noun

fist (plural fists)

1. The act of breaking wind; fise.
2. A puffball.

Anagrams

• FITs, FiTs, ITFs, TIFs, fits, sift

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fust, fest, feest, vest

Etymology

From Old English f?st, from Proto-West Germanic *f?sti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?st/, /fist/

Noun

fist (plural fistes)

1. fist

Descendants

• English: fist
• Scots: fist, fyst
• Yola: hist, fest

References

• “f??st, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Verb

fist

1. third-person singular past historic of faire

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• feset

Verb

fist

1. past participle of fise