ist

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ist"

Languages (12)

Translingual • English

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Cimbrian • Cypriot Arabic • German • Gothic • Khalaj • Livonian • Middle High German • Old High German • Proto-Norse • Scottish Gaelic

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Translingual

Symbol

ist

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Istriot.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Istriot terms

English

Etymology

From the suffix -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪst/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

ist (plural ists)

1. A practitioner or supporter of an ism.
   • 2009 March 29, Kevin McKenna, “That's enough men leaning on shovels”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     Not the obsession with the isms and the ists of Balls, Miliband, Cooper and Alexander and their acolytes.

Anagrams

• SIT, 'tis, Sit, its, its', TIs, t'is, tis, STI, TIS, sit, 'its, it's, TSI, ITS, S.T.I.

Cimbrian

Verb

ist

1. third-person singular present indicative of zèinan

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic اِسْت (ist).

Noun

ist m (plural istát)

1. genitals
2. buttocks

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 140

German

Alternative forms

• is', is (colloquial, pronunciation spelling)

Pronunciation

(standard)

• IPA^(key): /ɪst/

• Audio:

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• Audio:

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• Homophone: isst

(nonstandard, colloquial)

• IPA^(key): /ɪs/
• Homophone: iss

Verb

ist

1. third-person singular present of sein

Gothic

Romanization

ist

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐍃𐍄

Khalaj

Perso-Arabic		ایست

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *üŕt.

Pronunciation

• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key): [ɪst], [i̞st]

Noun

ist (definite accusative istü, plural istlər)

1. upper part
2. top

Declension

Declension of ist

	singular	plural
nominative	ist	istlər
genitive	istü̂ñ	istlərü̂ñ
dative	istkə	istlərkə
definite accusative	istü	istlərü
locative	istçə	istlərçə
ablative	istdə	istlərdə
instrumental	istlə	istlərlə
equative	istvâra	istlərvâra

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) istõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *istudak, related to Finnish istua.

Verb

ist

1. sit

Middle High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈis̠t/

Verb

ist

1. third-person singular present indicative of sīn / wësen

Old High German

Verb

ist

1. third-person singular present indicative of wësan

Proto-Norse

Romanization

ist

1. Romanization of ᛁᛊᛏ

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪʃtʲ/

Interjection

ist

1. hush, shh