German

Noun

Pest f ‎(genitive Pest, plural Pesten)

1. plague

Declension

Derived terms

• Geflügelpest

Hungarian

The location of Pest county on the map of Hungary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛʃt]
• Hyphenation: Pest

Proper noun

Pest

1. One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
2. An administrative county in central Hungary.

Declension

Derived terms

• pesti

(Compound words):

• Újpest

English

Noun

pest ‎(plural pests)

1. (originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
2. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
3. An invasive weed
4. An annoying person.
5. (Britain, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.

   Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

Synonyms

• (creature): bug

Related terms

• pester
• pesthole
• pesthouse
• pesticidal, pesticide
• pestiferous
• pestilence, pestilent, pestilential

Translations

Anagrams

• pets
• sept, Sept.
• step

Danish

Etymology

From French peste, from Latin pestis ‎(“disease, plague, pest, destruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, [pʰɛsd̥]

Noun

pest c ‎(uncountable, singular definite pesten)

1. (pathology) plague
2. (figuratively) pestilence

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

pest f ‎(uncountable)

1. A plague, pest, pestilence.
2. A specific bovine plague
3. An obnoxious person

Derived terms

Verb

pest

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of pesten
2. imperative of pesten

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest f, m ‎(definite singular pesta or pesten, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noe/noen) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velge mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

• byllepest

References

• “pest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin pestis

Noun

pest m ‎(definite singular pesten, indefinite plural pestar, definite plural pestane)
pest f ‎(definite singular pesta, indefinite plural pester, definite plural pestene)

1. a plague

   sky (noko/nokon) som pesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague

   velje mellom pest og kolera - choose the lesser of two evils

Derived terms

• byllepest

References

• “pest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pêːst/

Noun

pȇst f ‎(Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст)

1. (regional, literary) fist

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pęstь. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian пест, pest, Slovak päsť, Russian пясть ‎(pjastʹ, “middle part of the hand”) and запя́стье ‎(zapjástʹje), dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects) пестник ‎(pestnik), песник ‎(pesnik), пестница ‎(pestnica). Compare Ancient Greek πυγμή ‎(pugmḗ), English fist, German Faust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpéːst/
• Tonal orthography: pẹ̑st

Noun

pést f ‎(genitive pestí, nominative plural pestí)

1. (anatomy) fist

Declension

Derived terms

• pésten

Swedish

Noun

pest c

1. A plague
2. A pest; something deeply annoying

Related terms

• pest och pina
• välja mellan pest och kolera