fest

See also: Fest, fêst, Fëst, and -fest

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fest. Related to Middle English feste, from Old French feste, from Latin festum (see festivity); however, the modern word is a borrowing of the German, which shares the same ultimate origin. More at feast.

Pronunciation

Noun

fest (plural fests)

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

Translations

Anagrams


Danish

Etymology

Borrowed 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


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): /fɛst/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Adjective

fest (comparative fester, superlative am festesten)

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

Declension

See also

Further reading

  • fest in Duden online

Hungarian

Etymology

[after 1372] Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pëčɜ- (color; to color, paint)[1][2] + -t (causative suffix).[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛʃt]
  • (file)

Verb

fest

  1. (transitive) to paint
  2. (transitive) 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, 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Entry #841 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. Álgu etymological database, entry #78153 (language: Hungarian, word: fëst-)
  3. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

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

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
Derived terms

Verb

fest

  1. imperative of feste

References


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

Derived terms

References


Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German fest.

Adverb

fest

  1. (Silesia dialectal) firmly, strongly

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German fest.

Adverb

fest (Cyrillic spelling фест)

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

Synonyms


Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fest c

  1. party, celebration

Declension

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

Derived terms


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)
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