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

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

From Latin pestis.

• IPA^(key): /pɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

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Pest f (genitive Pest, plural Pesten)

1. plague

• Beulenpest
• Geflügelpest
• Rinderpest
• Schweinepest

• pestartig

• “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