fist

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From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti (“fist”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch; to prick, stab”). Cognates Cognate with Yola fest, hist (“fist”), Saterland Frisian Fäste, Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Central Franconian Fuus (“fist”), Cimbrian bòista, vòista (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”), Low German Fuust (“fist”), Luxembourgish Fauscht (“fist”), Vilamovian faojst, faust (“fist”), Yiddish פֿויסט (foyst, “fist”); also Irish fuaigh (“sew, stitch”), Latin pugnus (“fist”), Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”), πύκτης (púktēs, “boxer, pugilist”), Lithuanian kumštis (“fist”), Bulgarian пестник (pestnik, “fist; punch”), Czech pěst (“fist”), Polish pięść (“fist”), Russian пясть (pjastʹ, “metacarpus”), Serbo-Croatian пе̏ст, pȅst, пѐсница, pèsnica (“fist”), Slovak päsť (“fist”), Slovene pest (“fist”). More at five.

From Middle English fisten, fiesten, from Old English *fistan ("to break wind gently"; supported by Old English fisting (“breaking wind”)), from Proto-Germanic *fistaz (“breaking wind, fart”), from Proto-Germanic *fīsaną (“to break or discharge wind, fart”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Cognate with Dutch veest (“a fart”), Low German fīsten (“to break wind”), German Fist (“a quiet wind”), Fisten (“breaking wind”), Swedish fisa (“to fart”), Latin spīrō (“breathe, blow”).

237 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҭаҷкум (atačʼkʼum) — clenched hand
• Albanian: grusht — clenched hand
• Albanian: dumb — clenched hand
• Albanian: dumkë — clenched hand
• Northern Altai: ньундурук (nʹunduruk) — clenched hand
• Southern Altai: јудрук (ǰudruk) — clenched hand
• Arabic: قَبْضَة (qabḍa) — clenched hand
• Arabic: قبضة (ʔabḍa) — clenched hand
• Arabic: بونية (buneya) — clenched hand
• Arabic: بوكس (boks) — clenched hand
• Arabic: بونية (bunya) — clenched hand
• Armenian: բռունցք (bṙuncʻkʻ) — clenched hand
• Aromanian: bush — clenched hand
• Aromanian: shub — clenched hand
• Aromanian: pulmu — clenched hand
• Aromanian: huftã — clenched hand
• Aromanian: mãnatã — clenched hand
• Assamese: মুঠি (muthi) — clenched hand
• Asturian: puñu — clenched hand
• Azerbaijani: yumruq — clenched hand
• Bangi: liboto — clenched hand
• Bashkir: йоҙроҡ (yoźroq) — clenched hand
• Basque: ukabil — clenched hand
• Belarusian: кула́к (kulák) — clenched hand
• Bengali: মুষ্টি (muśṭi) — clenched hand
• Bengali: কিল (kil) — clenched hand
• Bouyei: jianz — clenched hand
• Bulgarian: юмру́к (jumrúk) — clenched hand
• Bulgarian: пестни́к (pestník) — clenched hand
• Bulgarian: пестни́ца (pestníca) — clenched hand
• Burmese: လက်သီး (laksi:) — clenched hand
• Catalan: puny — clenched hand
• Chechen: буй (buj) — clenched hand
• Cherokee: ᏍᏇᏅᎢ (squenvi) — clenched hand
• Chichewa: chibakera — clenched hand
• Chinese Cantonese: 拳頭 /拳头 (kyun4 tau4) — clenched hand
• Chinese: чуйту (čuytu) — clenched hand
• Eastern Min Chinese: 拳頭母 /拳头母 (gùng-tàu-mō̤) — clenched hand
• Gan Chinese: 拳頭 /拳头 (qyon2 teu) — clenched hand
• Hakka Chinese: 拳頭 /拳头 (khièn-thèu) — clenched hand
• Hakka Chinese: 拳頭嫲 /拳头嫲 (khièn-thèu-mà) — clenched hand
• Chinese: 拳頭母 /拳头母 (kûn-thâu-bú, kûn-thâu-bó) — clenched hand
• Chinese: 拳頭 /拳头 (zh-min-nan) — clenched hand
• Chinese Mandarin: 拳頭 /拳头 (quántou) — clenched hand
• Northern Min Chinese: 拳頭 /拳头 (gṳ̂ing-tê) — clenched hand
• Wu Chinese: 拳頭 /拳头 — clenched hand
• Chuvash: чышка (čyška) — clenched hand
• Chuvash: чӑмӑр (čămăr) — clenched hand
• West Circassian: бжым (bžəm) — clenched hand
• Coptic: ϧⲟⲣⲡⲥ (xorps) — clenched hand
• Coptic: ϭⲁϫⲙⲏ (čajmē) — clenched hand
• Corsican: pugnu — clenched hand
• Crimean Tatar: yumrıq — clenched hand
• Crimean Tatar: yumruq — clenched hand
• Czech: pěst — clenched hand
• Danish: næve — clenched hand
• Danish: knytnæve — clenched hand
• Dolgan: һутурук — clenched hand
• Dutch: vuist — clenched hand
• Elfdalian: knåytnevi — clenched hand
• Esperanto: pugno — clenched hand
• Estonian: rusikas — clenched hand
• Finnish: nyrkki — clenched hand
• Finnish: koura — clenched hand
• French: poing — clenched hand
• West-Frisian: knûst — clenched hand
• Friulian: pugn — clenched hand
• Galician: puño — clenched hand
• Georgian: მუშტი (mušṭi) — clenched hand
• Georgian: მუჭი (muč̣i) — clenched hand
• Georgian: მჯიღი (mǯiɣi) — clenched hand
• German: Faust — clenched hand
• Greek: γροθιά (grothiá) — clenched hand
• Ancient Greek: πυγμή (pugmḗ) — clenched hand
• Greenlandic: assak — clenched hand
• Greenlandic: assak eqeruloorsimasoq — clenched hand
• Gujarati: મૂક્કો (mūkko) — clenched hand
• Hawaiian: puʻupuʻu lima — clenched hand
• Hebrew: אֶגרוֹף (egróf) — clenched hand
• Hindi: मुट्ठी (muṭṭhī) — clenched hand
• Hindi: मुश्त (muśt) — clenched hand
• Hungarian: ököl — clenched hand
• Hunsrik: Faust — clenched hand
• Icelandic: hnefi — clenched hand
• Icelandic: kreppt hönd — clenched hand
• Ido: pugno — clenched hand
• Indonesian: tinju — clenched hand
• Ingrian: kulakka — clenched hand
• Ingrian: nyrkki — clenched hand
• Irish: dorn — clenched hand
• Istriot: poûgno — clenched hand
• Italian: pugno — clenched hand
• Japanese: 拳 (kobushi) — clenched hand
• Kaitag: къкъвяш (ɢɢvəš) — clenched hand
• Kalasha: موُشؕٹی (muṣṭí) — clenched hand
• Kalmyk: нудрм (nudrm) — clenched hand
• Kannada: ಮುಷ್ಟಿ (muṣṭi) — clenched hand
• Karachay-Balkar: джумдурукъ (cumduruq) — clenched hand
• Kashubian: pisc — clenched hand
• Kashmiri: مُش (muś) — clenched hand
• Kashmiri: مۄٹھ (mọṭh) — clenched hand
• Kazakh: жұдырық (jūdyryq) — clenched hand
• Khakas: мунзурух (munzurux) — clenched hand
• Khakas: нузурух (nuzurux) — clenched hand
• Khmer: កណ្ដាប់ដៃ (kɑɑkɑndap day) — clenched hand
• Korean: 주먹 (jumeok) — clenched hand
• Kumyk: юмурукъ (yumuruq) — clenched hand
• Central Kurdish: مست (mist) — clenched hand
• Northern Kurdish: mişt — clenched hand
• Kyrgyz: муштум (muştum) — clenched hand
• Kyrgyz: жудурук (juduruk) — clenched hand
• Lao: ຫມັດ (mat) — clenched hand
• Lao: ເງຶ້ອມມື (ngưam mư̄) — clenched hand
• Lao: ມຸດຖິ (mut thi) — clenched hand
• Lao: ກໍາປ້ັນ (kam pan) — clenched hand
• Latgalian: dyure — clenched hand
• Latin: pugnus — clenched hand
• Latvian: dūre — clenched hand
• Laz: mcixi — clenched hand
• Lingala: ebotu — clenched hand
• Lithuanian: kumštis — clenched hand
• Lombard: pugn — clenched hand
• Luxembourgish: Fauscht — clenched hand
• Macedonian: тупаница (tupanica) — clenched hand
• Malay: penumbuk — clenched hand
• Malay: buku lima — clenched hand
• Malay: tinju — clenched hand
• Malayalam: മുഷ്ടി (muṣṭi) — clenched hand
• Maltese: ponn — clenched hand
• Manchu: ᠨ᠋ᡠᠵᠠᠨ (nujan) — clenched hand
• Marathi: मुठी (muṭhī) — clenched hand
• Mazanderani: میس (mis) — clenched hand
• Meru: nkundi — clenched hand
• Mongolian: нударга (nudarga) — clenched hand
• Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠳᠤᠷᠭ᠎ᠠ (nidurɣ-a) — clenched hand
• Classical Nahuatl: māolōlli — clenched hand
• Neapolitan: punio — clenched hand
• Nepali: मुट्ठी (muṭṭhī) — clenched hand
• Nogai: юмырык (yumırık) — clenched hand
• Norwegian Bokmål: knyttneve — clenched hand
• Norwegian Nynorsk: knyttneve — clenched hand
• Occitan: ponh — clenched hand
• Occitan: punh — clenched hand
• Odia: ମୁଥ (mutha) — clenched hand
• Church Slavic: пѧсть (pęstĭ) — clenched hand
• Ossetian: тымбылкъух (tymbylk’ux) — clenched hand
• Ossetian: мустучъи (mustuḱ’i) — clenched hand
• Pashto: سوک (suk) — clenched hand
• Pashto: ګورمټ (gurmáṭ) — clenched hand
• Dari: مُشْت (mušt) — clenched hand
• Iranian Persian: مُشْت (mošt) — clenched hand
• Polish: pięść — clenched hand
• Portuguese: punho — clenched hand
• Punjabi: ਮੁੱਠੀ (muṭṭhī) — clenched hand
• Romagnol: pogn — clenched hand
• Romanian: pumn — clenched hand
• Romansh: pugn — clenched hand
• Romansh: puogn — clenched hand
• Russian: кула́к (kulák) — clenched hand
• Northern Sami: čorbma — clenched hand
• Samogitian: komstės — clenched hand
• Sanskrit: मुष्टि (muṣṭi) — clenched hand
• Scottish Gaelic: dòrn — clenched hand
• Serbo-Croatian: пѐсница — clenched hand
• Serbo-Croatian: pèsnica — clenched hand
• Shor: музуруқ — clenched hand
• Sindhi: مک (mkh) — clenched hand
• Sinhalese: හස්තය (hastaya) — clenched hand
• Slovak: päsť — clenched hand
• Slovene: pest — clenched hand
• Lower Sorbian: pěsć — clenched hand
• Upper Sorbian: pjasć — clenched hand
• Spanish: puño — clenched hand
• Swahili: ngumi — clenched hand
• Swahili: konde — clenched hand
• Swedish: knytnäve — clenched hand
• Tajik: мушт (mušt) — clenched hand
• Tamil: முஷ்டி (muṣṭi) — clenched hand
• Tatar: йомрык (yomrıq) — clenched hand
• Tatar: йодрык (yodrıq) — clenched hand
• Telugu: ముష్టి (muṣṭi) — clenched hand
• Telugu: పిడికిలి (piḍikili) — clenched hand
• Thai: กําปั้น (gam-bpân) — clenched hand
• Thai: หมัด (màt) — clenched hand
• Tibetan: མུར་རྫོག (mur rdzog) — clenched hand
• Tibetan: མཛོག་རུམ (mdzog rum) — clenched hand
• Tocharian B: maśce — clenched hand
• Tofa: нюдуруӄ (ńuduruq) — clenched hand
• Tooro: entomi class 9 — clenched hand
• Tooro: ekikonde class 7 — clenched hand
• Turkish: yumruk — clenched hand
• Ottoman Turkish: یومروق (yumruk) — clenched hand
• Ottoman Turkish: مشت (muşt) — clenched hand
• Turkmen: ýumruk — clenched hand
• Tuvan: чудурук (çuduruk) — clenched hand
• Udmurt: мыжык (myžyk) — clenched hand
• Udmurt: кимыж (kimyž) — clenched hand
• Ukrainian: кула́к (kulák) — clenched hand
• Ukrainian: п'ясть (pʺjastʹ) — clenched hand
• Unami: tùkwëlënch — clenched hand
• Urdu: مُٹّھی (muṭṭhī) — clenched hand
• Urdu: مُشْت (muśt) — clenched hand
• Urum: йудрух — clenched hand
• Urum: йумрух — clenched hand
• Urum: йумурух — clenched hand
• Uyghur: مۇشت (musht) — clenched hand
• Uzbek: musht — clenched hand
• Venetan: pugno — clenched hand
• Vietnamese: quyền — clenched hand
• Vietnamese: nắm đấm — clenched hand
• Vietnamese: nắm tay — clenched hand
• Volapük: pun — clenched hand
• Walloon: pougn — clenched hand
• Welsh: dwrn — clenched hand
• Yakut: сутурух (suturuq) — clenched hand
• Yakut: сутурук (suturuk) — clenched hand
• Yao (Africa): cibagela class 7 — clenched hand
• Yiddish: פֿויסט (foyst) — clenched hand
• Zhuang: gaemxgienz — clenched hand
• Zhuang: gienz — clenched hand
• French: manicule — (printing) the pointing hand symbol
• Italian: manina — (printing) the pointing hand symbol
• Spanish: manecilla — (printing) the pointing hand symbol
• Spanish: manícula — (printing) the pointing hand symbol
• Portuguese: pulso — (ham radio) the characteristic signaling rhythm
• Bulgarian: удрям с юмрук (udrjam s jumruk) — to strike with the fist
• Catalan: apunyalar — to strike with the fist
• Finnish: iskeä nyrkillä — to strike with the fist
• Finnish: lyödä nyrkillä — to strike with the fist
• Finnish: nyrkkeillä — to strike with the fist
• Hindi: मुक्का मारना (mukkā mārnā) — to strike with the fist
• Hindi: घूंसा मारना (ghūnsā mārnā) — to strike with the fist
• Irish: dornáil — to strike with the fist
• Polish: piąstkować — to strike with the fist
• Spanish: apuñalar — to strike with the fist
• Turkish: yumruklamak — to strike with the fist
• Ottoman Turkish: یومروقلامق (yumruklamak) — to strike with the fist