German

Noun

Fest n ‎(genitive Fests or Festes, plural Feste)

1. celebration, festival, party

Declension

Synonyms

• Feier
• Fete
• Party

Derived terms

Related terms

• fest

English

Noun

fest ‎(plural fests)

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

   a Renaissance fest

Related terms

• -fest
• festschrift

Translations

Anagrams

• efts, FETs, fets, FTSE, Stef

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

Declension

References

• “fest” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

Declension

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.

Conjugation

Derived terms

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

Declension

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

Synonyms

• (party): party

Related terms

• feste (sense 2)

Derived terms

• festlig

Etymology 2

Verb

fest

1. imperative of feste

References

• “fest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

Synonyms

• (party): party

References

• “fest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from German fest.

Adverb

fest

1. (Silesian dialects) firmly, strongly

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• fejst

Etymology

Borrowing from German fest

Adverb

fest

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

Synonyms

• jako, čvrsto, intenzivno

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fest c

1. party, celebration

Declension

Derived terms

• festa

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)