In the 16th century in the sense of "pestilence" and specificallybubonic plague fromMiddle French peste ( “ pestilence ” ) (whenceFrench peste Latin pestis
pest (plural pests
( now rare ) pestilence , i.e. a deadlyepidemic , a deadlyplague .2020 March 24, Qing Zhu, Zhang Ming, “Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Faces Plague of Locusts”, inMinghui [1] From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture,pests and famines are reflections of the current administration’s lack of moral values and deviation from divine will. The head of the administration (the emperor in the past) would then issue an edict to sincerely repent and correct his wrongdoings.
Anydestructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest. Anannoying person, anuisance . An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or aparasite ,vermin . Aninvasive weed . plague
Bulgarian:чума (bg) f ( čuma ) Catalan:pesta (ca) f plaga (ca) f Cornish:pla m plag m Dutch:pest (nl) ,plaag (nl) French:peste (fr) German:Seuche (de) f Pest (de) f Greek:πανούκλα (el) f ( panoúkla ) ,μάστιγα (el) f ( mástiga ) ,πληγή (el) f ( pligí ) ,λοιμός (el) m ( loimós ) Indonesian:pes (id) Irish:plá f Macedonian:чу́ма (mk) f ( čúma ) Ottoman Turkish:طاعون ( taʼun ) Polish:plaga (pl) f zaraza (pl) f epidemia (pl) f Portuguese:peste (pt) f Romanian:pestă (ro) f Russian:чума́ (ru) f ( čumá ) ,мор (ru) m ( mor ) Scottish Gaelic:plàigh f Spanish:peste (es) f pestilencia (es) f epidemia (es) f Swedish:pest (sv) c Tagalog:angol taping ( animal ) Walloon:pesse (wa)
destructive insect
Armenian:վնասատու (hy) ( vnasatu ) ,վնասատու կենդանի ( vnasatu kendani ) ,ուտիճ (hy) ( utič ) Belarusian:шко́днік m ( škódnik ) Bulgarian:вредител (bg) m ( vreditel ) Cornish:pla m Danish:skadedyr (da) Dutch:pest (nl) ,plaag (nl) Estonian:kahjur (et) Finnish:tuhoeläin (fi) French:peste (fr) f nuisible (fr) m Georgian:მავნებელი ( mavnebeli ) German:Schädling (de) m Icelandic:meindýr n Italian:parassita (it) m Macedonian:штеточина f ( štetočina ) Maori:orotā kīrearea Norwegian:Bokmål:skadedyr n Nynorsk:skadedyr n Polish:szkodnik (pl) m insekt (pl) m Portuguese:peste (pt) f Russian:вреди́тель (ru) m ( vredítelʹ ) Sardinian:errebiu m Scottish Gaelic:plàigh f Serbo-Croatian:štetòčina (sh) f štȅtnīk (sh) m Swedish:skadedjur (sv) n Turkish:haşere (tr) Ukrainian:шкідни́к m ( škidnýk ) Volapük:minimil (vo) ,( animal ) dämabanim ( diminutive ) dämabanimil ( insect ) dämabanäsäk ( plant ) dämabaplan
annoying person
Bulgarian:досадник m ( dosadnik ) Cornish:mab an pla m myrgh an pla f Danish:plage (da) ,plageånd pestilens Dutch:lastpak (nl) n Finnish:maanvaiva kiusankappale (fi) ,kiusanhenki French:peste (fr) f German:Nervensäge (de) f Quälgeist (de) m Greek:ζιζάνιο (el) n ( zizánio ) Irish:crá croí m Maori:orotā nanakia pōrearea Navajo:doo yildinii Plautdietsch:Onjenieech n Ploag f Polish:utrapieniec (pl) m Portuguese:peste (pt) m or f Russian:вреди́тель (ru) m ( vredítelʹ ) ,парази́т (ru) m ( parazít ) Scottish Gaelic:plàigh f Serbo-Croatian:dosadnjáković m dosàdnjāk (sh) m Spanish:moscardón (es) m
EPTs ESTP PETs STEP Sept Sept. TPEs Teps pets sept sept- spet step step- FromFrench peste Latin pestis ( “ disease, plague, pest, destruction ” ) .
pest c uncountable singular definite pesten
( pathology ) plague ( figuratively ) pestilence pest f uncountable
aplague , pest, pestilence a specific bovine plague anobnoxious person pest
inflection ofpesten first / second / third-person singular present indicative imperative M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols,Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk) , Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch] pest f Arabic spelling پەست
pressure ,oppression Chyet, Michael L. (2003 ) “pest ”, inKurdish–English Dictionary [2] page442 FromLatin pestis
pest f or m definite singular pesta or pesten indefinite plural pester definite plural pestene
aplague sky (noe/noen) sompesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague velge mellompest og kolera - choose thelesser of two evils “pest” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromLatin pestis
pest m definite singular pesten indefinite plural pestar definite plural pestane pest f definite singular pesta indefinite plural pester definite plural pestene
aplague sky (noko/nokon) sompesten - avoid (something/someone) like the plague velje mellompest og kolera - choose thelesser of two evils “pest” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .Inherited fromProto-Slavic *pęstь
pȇst f Cyrillic spelling пе̑ст
( regional , literary ) fist FromProto-Slavic *pęstь Serbo-Croatian пест pest Slovak päsť Russian пясть ( pjastʹ ,“ middle part of the hand ” ) andзапя́стье ( zapjástʹje ) , dialectal Bulgarian (Western dialects)пестник ( pestnik ) ,песник ( pesnik ) ,пестница ( pestnica ) . CompareAncient Greek πυγμή ( pugmḗ ) ,English fist German Faust
pẹ̑st f
( anatomy ) fist Ultimately fromLatin pestis
pest c
Aplague Apest pest
a perfectivizingparticle used with verbs 
