Pest

• Pesth (obsolete)

From Hungarian Pest, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”). Compare German Ofen (“Buda”, literally “oven”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/
• Rhymes: -ɛst, -ɛʃt
• Homophone: pest

Pest

1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

   Coordinate terms: Buda, Óbuda

2. The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎:

     On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.

   Coordinate term: Buda

3. A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

• EPTs, ESTP, PETs, STEP, Sept, Sept., TPEs, Teps, pets, sept, sept-, spet, step, step-

16th century, from Latin pestis, in part through Middle French peste. Popular shortening of Middle High German pestilencie (14th c.), from related Latin pestilentia, may also have contributed (though this is impossible to prove).

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Pest f (genitive Pest, plural (rare) Pesten)

1. (usually definite) bubonic plague, the plague

   Synonyms: Beulenpest, Schwarzer Tod

   Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten.

   The plague devastated especially towns and cities.

2. (in compounds) any of various unrelated epidemic diseases affecting animals

   Hyponyms: Geflügelpest, Hasenpest, Rinderpest, Schweinepest

3. (figuratively) anything that negatively affects vast areas, especially a natural disaster

   Synonyms: Seuche, Plage

   Ölpest ― oil spill

   Drogenpest ― drug plague

4. (figuratively, informal) anything terrible or odious

   die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera

   a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea

   (literally, “between the plague and cholera”)

   Sowas hasse ich wie die Pest.

   That’s something I really loathe.

   (literally, “something I hate like the plague.”)

• Pestilenz

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/, /pɛʃt/

Pest n (proper noun, genitive Pests or (optionally with an article) Pest)

1. Pest (a quarter of Budapest, Hungary)

• “Pest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Pest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Pest, Krankheit” in Duden online
• “Pest, Stadtteil, Budapest” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛʃt]
• Hyphenation: Pest
• Rhymes: -ɛʃt

Pest

1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
2. The corresponding part of current-day Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.

   Coordinate term: Buda

3. (informal, loosely) Ellipsis of Budapest.
4. An administrative county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest, often meant to exclude the capital itself.

• pesti

(Compound words):

• Újpest

• IPA^(key): /pʰeʃt/

Pest f

1. plague

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary