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Fest

Fest

See also: fest, fêst, and -fest

German

Noun

Fest n (genitive Fests or Festes, plural Feste)

  1. celebration, festival, party

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fest

fest

See also: Fest, fêst, and -fest

English

Noun

fest (plural fests)

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

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowing from German Fest, from Latin fēstum (holiday, festival, banquet, feast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛst/, [fɛsd̥]

Noun

fest c (singular definite festen, plural indefinite fester)

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

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German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Adjective

fest (comparative fester, superlative am festesten)

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

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See also

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pëčɜ- (color; to color)[1] + -t (causative suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛʃt]

Verb

fest

  1. to paint
  2. to dye
  3. (intransitive) to look somehow
    Hogy fest? ― What does it look like?
    • 1989, John Updike (author), Árpád Göncz (translator), Így látja Roger [Roger's Version], Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, ISBN 9630749483, page 203:
      Dale nem festett valami jól; viaszos sápadtsága szinte beteges volt. S mintha izzadt volna; ingzubbonya fölé kockás sportzakót vett, s e kettő nagyon nem illett össze.

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References

  1. Álgu etymological database, entry #78153 (language: Hungarian, word: fëst-)

Luxembourgish

Adjective

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

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

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Middle English

Verb

fest

  1. to feast

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
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Etymology 2

Verb

fest

  1. imperative of feste

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festum

Noun

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

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

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from German fest.

Adverb

fest

  1. (Silesian dialects) firmly, strongly

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowing from German fest

Adverb

fest

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

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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛsːt/
  • Homophone: fäst

Noun

fest c

  1. party, celebration

Declension

Inflection of fest 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fest festen fester festerna
Genitive fests festens festers festernas

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Yola

Noun

fest

  1. fist

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)