guest

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EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with German Gast (“guest”), Norwegian gjest (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.

PronunciationEdit

enPR: gĕst, IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛst
Homophone: guessed

NounEdit

guest (plural guests)

A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
The guests were let in by the butler.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
(computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
(zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
(zoology) An inquiline.

TranslationsEdit

recipient of hospitality

Afrikaans: gas (af)
Ahom: 𑜁𑜢𑜀𑜫 (khik)
Ainu: sinewe kur
Albanian: mnor mysafir (sq) m, vizitor (sq) m
Amharic: እንግዳ (ʾəngəda)
Arabic: ضَيْف‎ m or f (ḍayf), زَائِر‎ m (zāʔir)
Egyptian Arabic: ضيف‎ m (ḍēf)

Moroccan Arabic: ضِيف‎ m (ḍif)
Aragonese: huesped
Armenian: հյուր (hy) (hyur)
Aromanian: oaspe, musafir
Assamese: আলহী (alohi)
Asturian: güéspede m, güéspeda f
Azerbaijani: qonaq (az), müsafir, mehman
Baluchi: مہمان‎ (mihmán), میمان‎ (memán)
Bashkir: ҡунаҡ (qunaq)
Basque: ostalari
Bats: ჰ̡აშ (h̡aš), ჰ̡აშე̆ (h̡ašĕ)
Belarusian: госць m (hoscʹ), го́сця f (hóscja)
Bengali: মেহমান (bn) (mehman), অতিথি (bn) (otithi)
Bulgarian: гост (bg) m (gost), го́стенка f (góstenka)
Burmese: ဧည့်သည် (my) (e-ny.sany), ဧည့် (my) (e-ny.)
Catalan: convidat (ca) m, hoste (ca) m
Chechen: хьеша (ḥʳeša)
Chichewa: mlendo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 人客 (jan⁴ haak³), 客人 (haak³ jan⁴)

Dungan: кижын (kiřɨn)

Gan: 人客 (nyin⁴ kah⁶)

Jin: 客人 (kah⁴ zeng¹)

Mandarin: 客人 (zh) (kèrén), 來賓／来宾 (zh) (láibīn), 來客／来客 (zh) (láikè)

Min Dong: 人客 (nè̤ng-káh)

Min Nan: 人客 (zh-min-nan) (lâng-kheh, lâng-kheeh)

Xiang: 人客 (zhen² ke⁶)
Chittagonian: গরবা (gorba)
Chukchi: рэмкыԓьын (rėmkyḷʹyn)
Czech: host (cs) m, hostka (cs) f
Danish: gæst (da) c
Dutch: gast (nl) m
Esperanto: gasto
Estonian: külaline
Faroese: gestur m
Finnish: vieras (fi)
French: invité (fr) m, invitée (fr) f, hôte (fr) m or f
Friulian: forest, ospit
Galician: hóspede (gl) m or f, convidado (gl)
Georgian: სტუმარი (sṭumari)
German: Gast (de) m
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts)
Greek: επισκέπτης (el) m (episképtis)
Gujarati: અતિથિ (atithi)
Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ‎ (he) m (oréakh)
Hindi: मेहमान (hi) m (mehmān), अतिथि (hi) m (atithi)
Hungarian: vendég (hu)
Icelandic: gestur (is) m
Indonesian: tamu (id)
Ingush: хьаьаша (ḥʳäaša)
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Italian: ospite (it) m or f, invitato (it) m, convitato (it) m
Japanese: 客人 (ja) (きゃくじん, kyakujin), 客 (ja) (きゃく, kyaku), (honorific) お客さん (おきゃくさん, o-kyaku-san), 来客 (ja) (らいきゃく, raikyaku), 来賓 (ja) (らいひん, raihin)
Javanese: tamu
Kazakh: қонақ (kk) (qonaq), мейман (meiman)
Khmer: ភ្ញៀវ (km) (phñiəw), អតិថិ (km) (ʼaʼtetheʼ), អាវេសិក (km) (ʼaaveisək)
Korean: 손님 (ko) (sonnim), 하객(賀客) (ko) (hagaek), 내빈(來賓) (ko) (naebin), 래빈(來賓) (ko) (raebin) (North Korea), 방문객(訪問客) (ko) (bangmun'gaek)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: میوان‎ (ku) (mîwan)

Northern Kurdish: mêvan (ku)
Kyrgyz: конок (konok), мейман (meyman)
Laboya: kulla
Ladino: musafir, invitado
Lao: ແຂກ (lo) (khǣk)
Latgalian: gosts
Latin: hostis (la) c, hospes m
Latvian: viesis m, ciemiņš m
Lithuanian: svečias m
Lü: ᦶᦃᧅᧈ (ẋaek¹), ᦖᦱᧃ (ṁaan)
Macedonian: гостин m (gostin), гостинка f (gostinka), гост m (gost)
Malay: tetamu
Maltese: mistieden m
Manchu: ᠠᠨᡨᠠᡥᠠ (antaha)
Maori: manuhiri
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зочин (mn) (zočin)
Ngazidja Comorian: mdjeni class 1/2
Nivkh: антӽ (antẋ)
Northern Sami: guossi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjest (no) m
Occitan: convidat m, òste (oc) m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: гость m (gostĭ)

Glagolitic: ⰳⱁⱄⱅⱐ m (gostĭ)
Old East Slavic: гость m (gostĭ)
Old English: ġiest m, cuma m
Old Norse: gestr m
Oromo: keessummaa
Ossetian: уазӕг (wazæg)
Pali: atithi m
Pashto: مېلمه‎ (ps) m (melmá), رابللی‎ m (rābalálay)
Persian: مهمان‎ (fa) (mehmân)
Plautdietsch: Gaust m
Polabian: ďüst m
Polish: gość (pl) m (male or female)
Portuguese: hóspede (pt) m or f, convidado (pt) m
Romanian: oaspete (ro) m, musafir (ro) m, musafiră (ro) f
Romansch: giast, hosp
Russian: гость (ru) m (gostʹ), го́стья (ru) f (góstʹja)
Sanskrit: अतिथि (sa) m (atithi)
Sardinian: cumbidàu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: го̑ст m, го̀шћа f

Roman: gȏst (sh) m, gòšća f
Shan: ၶႅၵ်ႇ (shn) (khèk)
Sidamo: wosina
Slovak: hosť m, hostka f
Slovene: gost (sl) m, gošća f, gostja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gósć m

Upper Sorbian: hósć m
Spanish: huésped (es) m or f, visita (es) f, visitante (es) m or f, convidado (es) m, comensal (es) m or f
Svan: მუშგვრი (mušgvri)
Swahili: mgeni (sw) class m-wa
Swedish: gäst (sv) c
Tajik: меҳмон (tg) (mehmon)
Tatar: кунак (tt) (qunaq)
Telugu: అతిథి (te) (atithi)
Thai: แขก (th) (kɛ̀ɛk)
Tibetan: མགྲོན་པོ (mgron po)
Tigrinya: ጋሻ (gaša)
Turkish: konuk (tr), misafir (tr)
Turkmen: myhman
Tuvan: аалчы (aalçı)
Ukrainian: гість m (histʹ), го́стя f (hóstja)
Urdu: مہمان‎ m (mehmān)
Uyghur: مېھمان‎ (mëhman)
Uzbek: mehmon (uz)
Vietnamese: khách (vi) (客)
Volapük: lotan (vo)
Walloon: priyî (wa) m, invité m
Wolof: gan (wo)
Yiddish: גאַסט‎ m (gast)
Zazaki: meyman (diq) du
Zhuang: bouxhek, hek

patron, customer

Afrikaans: gas (af), klant (af), klient
Armenian: հաճախորդ (hy) (hačaxord)
Basque: ostalari
Bulgarian: посети́тел (bg) m (posetítel), клие́нт (bg) m (kliént)
Catalan: hoste (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 顧客／顾客 (zh) (gùkè)
Czech: host (cs) m
Danish: gæst (da) c
Dutch: gast (nl) m
Faroese: gestur m
Finnish: asiakas (fi), vieras (fi)
French: client(e) (fr) m
Galician: hóspede (gl) m or f
German: Gast (de) m
Greek: πελάτης (el) m (pelátis)
Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ‎ (he) m (oréakh)
Icelandic: gestur (is) m
Italian: cliente (it) m or f, ospite (it) m or f
Japanese: 客 (ja) (きゃく, kyaku), (honorific) お客さん (おきゃくさん, o-kyaku-san), 顧客 (ja) (こきゃく, kokyaku)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: میوان‎ (ku) (mîwan)
Macedonian: го́стин m (góstin)
Old English: ġiest m, cuma m
Polish: gość (pl) m
Portuguese: hóspede (pt) m or f
Russian: посети́тель (ru) m (posetítelʹ), посети́тельница (ru) f (posetítelʹnica), постоя́лец (ru) m (postojálec) (hotel), клие́нт (ru) m (klijént), клие́нтка (ru) f (klijéntka)
Slovene: gost (sl) m, gostja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gósć m

Upper Sorbian: hósć m
Swedish: gäst (sv) c, hotellgäst (sv) c
Thai: ลูกค้า (th) (lûuk-káa)
Vietnamese: khách (vi)
Zazaki: mışterı du or f du or n

invited performer

Afrikaans: gaskunstenaar
Basque: gonbidatu
Belarusian: госць m (hoscʹ), го́сця f (hóscja)
Bulgarian: гост (bg) m (gost), го́стенка f (góstenka)
Catalan: invitat (ca) m
Czech: host (cs) m
Danish: gæst (da) c
Dutch: gast (nl) m
Faroese: gestur m
Finnish: vieras (fi)
French: invité(e) m
Galician: convidado (gl) m
German: Gast (de) m
Greek: φιλοξενούμενος (el) m (filoxenoúmenos), προσκεκλημένος (el) m (proskekliménos)
Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ‎ (he) m (oréakh)
Icelandic: gestur (is) m
Italian: ospite (it) m or f
Macedonian: гостин m (gostin)
Polish: gość (pl) m
Portuguese: convidado (pt) m
Russian: гость (ru) m (gostʹ), го́стья (ru) f (góstʹja)
Slovak: hosť m, hostka f, hostia pl
Slovene: gost (sl) m, gostja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gósć m
Spanish: invitado (es) m, invitada (es) f
Swedish: gäst (sv) c, gästartist (sv) c
Telugu: అతిథి (te) (atithi)
Ukrainian: гість m (histʹ), го́стя f (hóstja)
Zazaki: meyman (diq) m du or f du or n du

VerbEdit

guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)

(intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
(intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)
(transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
  Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested

TranslationsEdit

to appear as a guest

Basque: gonbidatu
Bulgarian: гостувам (gostuvam)
Danish: gæste
Finnish: esiintyä vieraana
German: gastieren (de)
Greek: φιλοξενούμαι (el) (filoxenoúmai)
Hebrew: התארח‎ (hitarákh)
Macedonian: гостува (gostuva)
Russian: гости́ть (ru) impf (gostítʹ), (on broadcast) быть в гостя́х (bytʹ v gostjáx)
Swedish: gästa (sv)
Zazaki: meymaniye (diq) n or pf

to receive or entertain hospitably as a guest — see host

Derived termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

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