German

Noun

Ost m ‎(genitive Osts or Ost, no plural)

1. the east (used without article; a short form of Osten)
   • der Wind kommt aus Ost

     the wind is coming from the east

2. a wind coming from the east (used with article)

Antonyms

• West

Derived terms

• ostwärts

Related terms

• Osten

Compounds

• Ostafrika
• Ostalgie
• Ostasien
• Ostblock
• Ostdeutschland
• Nordost
• Südost

See also

• Nord
• Süd

English

Noun

ost ‎(plural osts)

1. Alternative form of oast

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ost/, [ɔsd̥]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German ōst ‎(“east”).

Adverb

ost

1. (obsolete) east

Noun

ost

1. (obsolete) east

Synonyms

• øst

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ostr.

Noun

ost c (singular definite osten, plural indefinite oste)

1. cheese

Inflection

Estonian

Noun

ost ‎(genitive ostu, partitive ostu)

1. purchase

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔst/
• Rhymes: -ɔst
• Homophone: ást

Noun

ost

1. accusative singular of ostur

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔst/

Noun

ost m ‎(plural osts)

1. host, army

Icelandic

Noun

ost

1. indefinite accusative singular of ostur

Latvian

Ost vīnu

Etymology

From *uosti, from Proto-Baltic *uod-ti, from *ōd-, from Proto-Indo-European *od-, *ōd-, *h₃ed- ‎(“to smell”). Cognates include Lithuanian úosti, Old Czech jadati ‎(“to explore, to investigate”), Ancient Greek ὄζω ‎(ózō, “to smell”), Latin odōr ‎(“smell”), Albanian amë ‎(“unpleasant smell”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uôst]

Verb

ost tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. ožu, od, ož, past odu

1. to smell (to perceive an odor)

   ost cepeti‎ ― to smell roast(ed meat)

   ost vīnu‎ ― to smell the wine

   ost spirta smaku‎ ― to smell the odor of alcohol

   strādājot virtuvē, visu laiku redzot, ožot ēdienu, it kā ēstgribas vairs nav‎ ― working in a kitchen, seeing and smelling food all the time, it is as if one no longer had (= could feel) the desire to eat

2. to smell, to sniff (to inhale air through the nose, usually several times, in order to try to perceive a smell)

   ost ēteri‎ ― to smell ether

   ožamais spirts‎ ― smelling salts, hartshorn (lit. smellable alcohol)

   divi cilvēki, piebāzuši pirkstu galus pie deguna, steidzīgi oda kaut ko baltu kā lauku vecenes šņaucamo tabaku‎ ― two people, bringing the tips of their fingers to their noses, quickly smelled something white, like old women snuffing tobacco in the countryside

3. (figuratively, colloquial) to smell (to sense, to find out)

   saimnieks jau dabūjis ost, ka tu citu vietu meklējoties‎ ― the landowner has already managed to smell that you are looking for another place

4. to smell, to stink (to have, to spread a bad, unpleasant smell)

   te ož pēc benzīna‎ ― it smells like gasoline here

   ost pēc ķiplokiem, siļķēm, alus‎ ― to smell like garlic, herring, beer

5. to smell (to have, to spread a pleasant odor)

   ost pēc odekolona‎ ― to smell like eau-de-cologne

   puķe jauki ož‎ ― the flower smells nice

   nokāpj gravā; ož pēc valgmes un pērnajām lapām‎ ― he goes down the ravine; (there) it smells like dampness and last year's leaves

6. (figuratively, colloquial) to smell (to suggest, make think of something, usually unpleasant)

   tas jau oda pēc fašisma‎ ― that smelled like fascism

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (of "to sniff"): ostīt
• (of "to sense"): jaust
• (of "to stink"): smirdēt, smakot
• (of "to spread pleasant odor"): smaržot

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• osties

Related terms

• ostīt
• oža

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “ost”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ost.

Noun

ost m, f (plural osts)

1. army

Descendants

• French: ost

References

• ost on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ostr.

Noun

ost m ‎(definite singular osten, indefinite plural oster, definite plural ostene)

1. cheese

Derived terms

• ostekake
• parmesanost
• sveitserost

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse ostr.

Noun

ost m ‎(definite singular osten, indefinite plural ostar, definite plural ostane)

1. cheese

Derived terms

• ostekake
• parmesanost
• sveitserost

Old English

Noun

ōst m

1. knot in a tree

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Old French

Alternative forms

• host

Etymology

Latin hostis.

Noun

ost m, f

1. army (armed military force)

Usage notes

• Has a regular declension as both a masculine and a feminine noun

  nominative singular oz, oblique plural oz, nominative plural ost when masculine

  nominative singular ost, oblique plural oz, nominative plural oz when feminine

• see Appendix:Old French nouns

Romansch

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Noun

ost m (plural osts)

1. east

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) oriaint

Antonyms

• vest

Derived terms

• nordost
• sidost

Related terms

• nord
• sid
• nordvest
• sidvest

Slovene

Etymology

Back-formation from oster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈóːst/
• Tonal orthography: ọ̑st

Noun

óst f ‎(genitive ostí, nominative plural ostí)

1. sharp tip

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish oster, from Old Norse ostr, from Proto-Germanic *justaz, from Proto-Indo-European *yaus-, *yūs-.

Noun

ost c

1. cheese

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• öster
• öst

Adverb

ost (not comparable)

1. east

   Kotka ligger ost om Helsingfors.‎

   Kotka lies east of Helsinki.

Noun

ost c ‎(uncountable)

1. east

Related terms

• nordost
• nordväst
• norr
• öst
• öster
• ostlig
• söder
• syd
• sydost
• sydväst
• väst
• väster

References

• ost in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *wɔstä. Compare Tocharian A waṣt.

Noun

ost

1. house

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

ost m

1. bough, branch