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You can make 21 words from hest according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hest

hest ehst hset shet esht seht hets ehts htes thes eths tehs hste shte htse thse sthe tshe esth seth etsh tesh steh tseh

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word hest. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in hest.

Definitions and meaning of hest

hest

Etymology

From Middle English heste, alteration of Middle English hes, from Old English hǣs (“command”). Akin to Old English hātan "to command". More at hight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

hest (plural hests)

1. (obsolete) Command, injunction.

Related terms

• behest

Translations

Anagrams

• Esth, Esth., Seth, Tesh, eths, hets, shet, tesh

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hestr (“stallion”), from Proto-Germanic *hanhistaz, a Verner alternation variant of *hangistaz, which is the source of the West Germanic word for “stallion”, cf. German Hengst and Danish hingst (a loanword from Low German).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛsd/, [ˈhesd̥], [ˈhest]

Noun

hest c (singular definite hesten, plural indefinite heste)

1. horse

Declension

Derived terms

• gyngehest

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: hest
• → Greenlandic: hiisti, hesti

References

• “hest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Homophones: Hest, heyst

Noun

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Icelandic

Noun

hest

1. indefinite accusative singular of hestur

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic حَسّ (ḥass). Cognate with Persian حس (hes).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/

Noun

hest m (Arabic spelling هه‌ست)

1. emotion, feeling, sentiment, passion

Declension

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish hest, from Old Danish hæst (“horse”), from Old Norse hestr (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“horse, stallion”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). Doublet of hingst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛst/

Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hester, definite plural hestene)

1. a horse

Usage notes

• In the period between 1938 and 1983, the definite plural form hesta was allowed. This morphological peculiarity included these other masculine nouns: gamp, gutt, kar, tupp.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

Adjective

hest

1. neuter of hes

References

• “hest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• heist, hæst (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian hester, from Old Norse hestr, from Proto-Germanic *hangistaz (“horse, stallion”). Doublet of hingst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛst/

Noun

hest m (definite singular hesten, indefinite plural hestar, definite plural hestane)

1. a horse, especially the male

   Synonym: øyk

   rida høgan hest ― to act arrogant (literally, “ride on a high horse”)

Derived terms

References

• “hest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “hest” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Old Norse

Noun

hest

1. accusative singular indefinite of hestr m

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːst/

Noun

hest c

1. (nonstandard, Internet slang) Alternative form of häst (“horse”)

Usage notes

Popularized by the meme "snel hest" (nice horse).

Declension

See also

• klap

Adjective

hest

1. indefinite neuter singular of hes

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• heşt

Numeral

hest

1. eight