kist
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
kist
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of kiss
- 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet:
- To me my Julia lately sent
A Bracelet richly Redolent
The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
That did perfume the Pomander.
Etymology 2[edit]
Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”).
Noun[edit]
kist (plural kists)
- (Scotland) A chest.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17:
- the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]
- (Scotland) A coffin.
- (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”)
- 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:
- The global library of ice has become a cracked kist, a broken storehouse leaking its contents.
Verb[edit]
kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)
- (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”).
Noun[edit]
kist (plural kists)
- (British India) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “kist”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 486.
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch kiste, from Old Dutch *kista, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂.
Noun[edit]
kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)
- A box, chest.
- Synonym: koffer
- A coffin.
- (aviation, informal) An aeroplane.
- (informal) A boot or large shoe, especially an army boot.
Derived terms[edit]
- kisten (verb)
- chest types
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
kist
- inflection of kisten:
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
kist
- A Alternative form of cheste (“chest”).
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian кисть (kistʹ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kȉst m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ст)
- A brush.
Declension[edit]
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)
Declension[edit]
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | kist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kisti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | kist | kistler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kisti | kistleri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | kiste | kistlere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | kistte | kistlerde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | kistten | kistlerden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | kistin | kistlerin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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