English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English gest Old Norse gestr Old English ġiest Proto-Germanic *gastiz Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis ( “ stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality ” ) . Cognate with German Gast ( “ guest ” ) . Doublet of host
Pronunciation [ edit ] guest (plural guests
A recipient of hospitality , specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
The guests were let in by the butler.
1898 , Winston Churchill , chapter 5, in The Celebrity 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.
( zoology ) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite .( zoology ) An inquiline .Translations [ edit ]
recipient of hospitality
Afrikaans: gas (af)
Albanian: mysafir (sq) m vizitor (sq) m
Arabic: ضَيْف m or f ( ḍayf )
Moroccan Arabic: ضِيف m ( ḍif )
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: অতিথি (bn) ( ôtithi )
Bulgarian: гост (bg) m ( gost )
Burmese: ဧည့်သည် (my) ( e-ny.sany ) , ဧည့် (my) ( e-ny. )
Catalan: convidat (ca) m hoste (ca) m
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 (zh) , 来宾 (zh) ( láibīn ) , 來客 (zh) , 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
Danish: gæst (da) c
Dutch: gast (nl) m
Esperanto: gasto
Estonian: külaline
Faroese: gestur m
Finnish: vieras (fi)
French: invité(e) (fr) , hôte (fr) m or f
Friulian: forest ospit
Galician: hóspede (gl) m or f
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)
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 )
Kazakh: қонақ (kk) ( qonaq ) , мейман ( meyman )
Khmer: ភ្ញៀវ (km) ( phñiəw ) , អតិថិ (km) ( ʾaʾtetheʾ )
Korean: 손님 (ko) ( sonnim )
Kurdish:
Sorani: میوان (ku) ( mîwan )
Kyrgyz: конок ( konok ) , мейман ( meyman )
Lamboya: kulla
Lao: ແຂກ (lo) ( khǣk )
Latgalian: gosts
Latin: hostis (la) c hospes m
Latvian: viesis m
Lithuanian: svečias m
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: го́стин m ( góstin ) , го́стинка f ( góstinka ) , гост m ( gost )
Malay: tetamu
Maltese: mistieden m
Maori: manuhiri
Mongolian: зочин (mn) ( zočin )
Ngazidja Comorian: mdjeni class 1 /2
Northern Sami: guossi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjest (no) m
Occitan: convidat
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
Ossetian: уазӕг ( wazæg )
Pali: atithi m
Pashto: مېلمه (ps) m ( melmá ) , رابللی m ( rābalálay )
Persian: مهمان (fa) ( mehmân )
Polish: gość (pl) m
Portuguese: hóspede (pt) m or f
Romanian: oaspete (ro) m musafir (ro) m
Romansch: giast hosp
Russian: гость (ru) m ( gostʹ ) , го́стья (ru) f ( góstʹja )
Sanskrit: अतिथि (sa) m ( atithi )
Sardinian: cumbidàu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гост m гошћа f
Roman: gost (sh) m gošća (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: hosť m
Slovene: gost (sl) m gošća f gostja f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: gósć m
Upper Sorbian: hósć m
Spanish: huésped (es) m or f
Svan: მუშგვრი ( mušgvri )
Swahili: mgeni (sw) class m-wa
Swedish: gäst (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠝꠦꠝꠣꠘ ( meman )
Tajik: меҳмон (tg) ( mehmon )
Tatar: кунак (tt) ( qunaq )
Telugu: అతిథి (te) ( atithi )
Thai: แขก (th) ( kɛ̀ɛk )
Tibetan: མགྲོན་པོ ( mgron po )
Turkish: konuk (tr) , misafir (tr)
Turkmen: myhman
Tuvan: аалчы ( aalčı )
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 du
Zhuang: bouxhek hek
patron, customer
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:
Sorani: 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 c
Vietnamese: khách (vi)
Zazaki: mışterı du or f du or n
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.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Sylvester to this entry?) Translations [ edit ] to receive or entertain hospitably as a guest
— see host Derived terms [ edit ] Anagrams [ edit ] 
