beest
Dutch (Brabantic)
/beːst/
noun
Definitions
- An animal, a beast.
- An animal kept as livestock, a head.
- (figurative) A cruel, wild, uncivilised, uninhibited or brutal person.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch beeste derived from Old French beste derived from Latin bēstia (beast, animal).
Origin
Latin
bēstia
Gloss
beast, animal
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *bīstia Latin
- *bīstius Latin
- bestia Latin
- bestiarius Latin
- bestiola Latin
- bestula Latin
- bēsta Latin
- bēstia Latin
- bēstiālis Latin
- bēstiārium Latin
- bīstia Latin
- Bestie German
- bestia Italian
- bak Dutch, Flemish
- bakbeest Dutch, Flemish
- beestenbende Dutch, Flemish
- beestenspel Dutch, Flemish
- bende Dutch, Flemish
- feest Dutch, Flemish
- feestbeest Dutch, Flemish
- hoorn Dutch, Flemish
- hoornbeest Dutch, Flemish
- knuffelbeest Dutch, Flemish
- knuffelen Dutch, Flemish
- koe Dutch, Flemish
- koebeest Dutch, Flemish
- liegbeest Dutch, Flemish
- liegen Dutch, Flemish
- podium Dutch, Flemish
- podiumbeest Dutch, Flemish
- spel Dutch, Flemish
- suiker Dutch, Flemish
- suikerbeest Dutch, Flemish
- varken Dutch, Flemish
- varkensbeest Dutch, Flemish
- vloekbeest Dutch, Flemish
- vloeken Dutch, Flemish
- wilde Dutch, Flemish
- wildebeest Dutch, Flemish
- бестия Russian
- bestia Spanish, Castilian
- *bik Proto-Germanic
- bestia Polish
- beeste Middle English
- beste Old French
- bèstia Catalan, Valencian
- beest Middle Dutch
- beeste Middle Dutch
- hornbeest Middle Dutch
- bestio Ido
- píast Old Irish
- bees Afrikaans
- beesvleis Afrikaans
- wildebees Afrikaans
- wildebeest Afrikaans
- baête Norman
- beet Norman
- bête Norman
- beste Middle French
- *bischo Old Portuguese
- bescha Old Portuguese
- besta Old Portuguese
- bēst Middle Low German
- bèstia Occitan
- bes-cha Romansh
- bestga Romansh
- bestia Romansh
- biestg Romansh
- bist Western Frisian
- biesse Walloon