kist

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past tense 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.

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”).

kist (plural kists)

1. (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 […]

2. (Scotland) A coffin.
3. (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.

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

• kist o' whistles

Borrowed from Hindustani क़िस्त / قِسْط‎ (qist, “installment”), from Arabic قِسْط‎ (qisṭ, literally “quota”).

kist (plural kists)

1. (India, historical) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

• kistbandi

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “kist”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 486.

• kits, skit, tisk

• IPA^(key): /kɪst/

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• Hyphenation: kist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

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.

kist f or m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje n)

1. A box, chest.

   Synonym: koffer

2. A coffin.

   Synonyms: doodskist, lijkkist

3. (aviation, informal) An aeroplane.
4. (informal) A boot or large shoe, especially an army boot.

• kisten (verb)

- chest types

• Afrikaans: kis
• Berbice Creole Dutch: kesi
• Negerhollands: kist
• → Munsee: kusht
• → Sranan Tongo: kisi
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: kisi
  • → Saramaccan: kési

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kisten
2. imperative of kisten

• stik

kist

1. A Alternative form of cheste (“chest”).

Borrowed from Russian кисть (kistʹ).

• IPA^(key): /kîst/

kȉst m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ст)

1. A brush.

Borrowed from French kyste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcist/
• Hyphenation: kist

kist (definite accusative kisti, plural kistler)

1. (medicine) A cyst.