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From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ghóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Doublet of host, from Latin. Cognates West-Germanic: :* Bavarian Gåst (“guest”) :* Dutch gast (“guest”) :* German Gast (“guest”) :* Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”) :* Vilamovian gost (“guest”) :* Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”) North-Germanic: :* Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”) :* Faroese and Icelandic gestur (“guest”) :* Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”) :* Swedish gäst (“guest”) East-Germanic: :* Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”)

342 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: gas — recipient of hospitality
• Ahom: 𑜁𑜢𑜀𑜫 (khik) — recipient of hospitality
• Ainu: sinewe kur — recipient of hospitality
• Albanian: mnor mysafir — recipient of hospitality
• Albanian: vizitor — recipient of hospitality
• Northern Altai: айылджы (ayïldžï) — recipient of hospitality
• Northern Altai: конак (konak) — recipient of hospitality
• Southern Altai: конок (konok) — recipient of hospitality
• Amharic: እንግዳ (ʾəngəda) — recipient of hospitality
• Arabic: ضَيْف (ḍayf) — recipient of hospitality
• Arabic: زَائِر (zāʔir) — recipient of hospitality
• Arabic: ضيف (ḍēf) — recipient of hospitality
• Arabic: ضِيف (ḍif) — recipient of hospitality
• Aragonese: huesped — recipient of hospitality
• Armenian: հյուր (hyur) — recipient of hospitality
• Aromanian: oaspe — recipient of hospitality
• Aromanian: musafir — recipient of hospitality
• Assamese: আলহী (alohi) — recipient of hospitality
• Asturian: güéspede — recipient of hospitality
• Asturian: güéspeda — recipient of hospitality
• Azerbaijani: qonaq — recipient of hospitality
• Azerbaijani: müsafir — recipient of hospitality
• Azerbaijani: mehman — recipient of hospitality
• Baluchi: مہمان (mihmán) — recipient of hospitality
• Baluchi: میمان (memán) — recipient of hospitality
• Bashkir: ҡунаҡ (qunaq) — recipient of hospitality
• Basque: ostalari — recipient of hospitality
• Bats: ჰ̡აშ (h̡aš) — recipient of hospitality
• Bats: ჰ̡აშე̆ (h̡ašĕ) — recipient of hospitality
• Belarusian: госць (hoscʹ) — recipient of hospitality
• Belarusian: го́сця (hóscja) — recipient of hospitality
• Bengali: অতিথি (otithi) — recipient of hospitality
• Bengali: মেহমান (mehman) — recipient of hospitality
• Bhojpuri: मेहमान (mēhəmān) — recipient of hospitality
• Bulgarian: гост (gost) — recipient of hospitality
• Bulgarian: го́стенка (góstenka) — recipient of hospitality
• Burmese: ဧည့်သည် (e-ny.sany) — recipient of hospitality
• Burmese: ဧည့် (e-ny.) — recipient of hospitality
• Catalan: convidat — recipient of hospitality
• Catalan: hoste — recipient of hospitality
• Cebuano: bisita — recipient of hospitality
• Chechen: хьеша (ḥreša) — recipient of hospitality
• Chichewa: mlendo — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese Cantonese: 人客 (jan4 haak3) — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese Cantonese: 客人 (haak3 jan4) — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese: кижын (kiřɨn) — recipient of hospitality
• Eastern Min Chinese: 人客 (nè̤ng-káh) — recipient of hospitality
• Gan Chinese: 人客 (nyin4 kah6) — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese: 人客 (zh-min-nan) — recipient of hospitality
• Jin Chinese: 客人 (kah4 reng1 / qieh4 reng1) — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese Mandarin: 客人 (kèrén) — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese Mandarin: 來賓 /来宾 (láibīn) — recipient of hospitality
• Chinese Mandarin: 來客 /来客 (láikè) — recipient of hospitality
• Wu Chinese: 客人 — recipient of hospitality
• Xiang Chinese: 人客 (zhen2 ke6) — recipient of hospitality
• Chittagonian: গরবা (gorba) — recipient of hospitality
• Chukchi: рэмкыԓьын (rėmkyḷʹyn) — recipient of hospitality
• East Circassian: хьащӏэ (ḥaśʼɛ) — recipient of hospitality
• East Circassian: хьэщӏэ (ḥɛśʼɛ) — recipient of hospitality
• West Circassian: хьакӏэ (ḥakʼɛ) — recipient of hospitality
• Ngazidja Comorian: mdjeni — recipient of hospitality
• Czech: host — recipient of hospitality
• Czech: hostka — recipient of hospitality
• Danish: gæst — recipient of hospitality
• Dutch: gast — recipient of hospitality
• Erzya: инже (inže) — recipient of hospitality
• Esperanto: gasto — recipient of hospitality
• Estonian: külaline — recipient of hospitality
• Faroese: gestur — recipient of hospitality
• Finnish: vieras — recipient of hospitality
• French: invité — recipient of hospitality
• French: invitée — recipient of hospitality
• French: hôte — recipient of hospitality
• Friulian: forest — recipient of hospitality
• Friulian: ospit — recipient of hospitality
• Galician: hóspede — recipient of hospitality
• Galician: convidado — recipient of hospitality
• Georgian: სტუმარი (sṭumari) — recipient of hospitality
• German: Gast — recipient of hospitality
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts) — recipient of hospitality
• Greek: επισκέπτης (episképtis) — recipient of hospitality
• Gujarati: અતિથિ (atithi) — recipient of hospitality
• Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ (oréakh) — recipient of hospitality
• Hindi: मेहमान (mehmān) — recipient of hospitality
• Hindi: अतिथि (atithi) — recipient of hospitality
• Hungarian: vendég — recipient of hospitality
• Icelandic: gestur — recipient of hospitality
• Indonesian: tamu — recipient of hospitality
• Ingrian: veeras — recipient of hospitality
• Ingush: хьаьаша (ḥräaša) — recipient of hospitality
• Italian: ospite — recipient of hospitality
• Italian: invitato — recipient of hospitality
• Italian: convitato — recipient of hospitality
• Japanese: 客人 (kyakujin) — recipient of hospitality
• Japanese: 客 (kyaku) — recipient of hospitality
• Japanese: お客さん (o-kyaku-san) — recipient of hospitality
• Japanese: 来客 (raikyaku) — recipient of hospitality
• Japanese: 来賓 (raihin) — recipient of hospitality
• Javanese: tamu — recipient of hospitality
• Kaitag: аха́л (aꭓál) — recipient of hospitality
• Kashubian: gòsc — recipient of hospitality
• Kashmiri: پۆژھ (poċh) — recipient of hospitality
• Kazakh: қонақ (qonaq) — recipient of hospitality
• Kazakh: мейман (meiman) — recipient of hospitality
• Khmer: ភ្ញៀវ (phñiəw) — recipient of hospitality
• Khmer: អតិថិ (ʼaʼtetheʼ) — recipient of hospitality
• Khmer: អាវេសិក (ʼaaveisək) — recipient of hospitality
• Korean: 손님 (sonnim) — recipient of hospitality
• Korean: 하객 (hagaek) — recipient of hospitality
• Korean: 내빈 (naebin) — recipient of hospitality
• Korean: 래빈 (raebin) — recipient of hospitality
• Korean: 방문객 (bangmun'gaek) — recipient of hospitality
• Central Kurdish: میوان (mîwan) — recipient of hospitality
• Northern Kurdish: mêvan — recipient of hospitality
• Kyrgyz: конок (konok) — recipient of hospitality
• Kyrgyz: мейман (meyman) — recipient of hospitality
• Laboya: kulla — recipient of hospitality
• Ladino: musafir — recipient of hospitality
• Ladino: invitado — recipient of hospitality
• Lao: ແຂກ (khǣk) — recipient of hospitality
• Latgalian: gosts — recipient of hospitality
• Latin: hostis — recipient of hospitality
• Latin: hospes — recipient of hospitality
• Latvian: viesis — recipient of hospitality
• Latvian: ciemiņš — recipient of hospitality
• Lithuanian: svečias — recipient of hospitality
• Lü: ᦶᦃᧅᧈ (ẋaek1) — recipient of hospitality
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧃ (ṁaan) — recipient of hospitality
• Macedonian: гостин (gostin) — recipient of hospitality
• Macedonian: гостинка (gostinka) — recipient of hospitality
• Macedonian: гост (gost) — recipient of hospitality
• Malay: tetamu — recipient of hospitality
• Maltese: mistieden — recipient of hospitality
• Manchu: ᠠᠨᡨᠠᡥᠠ (antaha) — recipient of hospitality
• Māori: manuhiri — recipient of hospitality
• Marathi: पाहुणा (pāhuṇā) — recipient of hospitality
• Marathi: पाहुणी (pāhuṇī) — recipient of hospitality
• Moksha: инжи (inži) — recipient of hospitality
• Mongolian: зочин (zočin) — recipient of hospitality
• Mongolian: ᠵᠣᠴᠢᠨ (ǰočin) — recipient of hospitality
• Nivkh: антӽ (antẋ) — recipient of hospitality
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjest — recipient of hospitality
• Occitan: convidat — recipient of hospitality
• Occitan: òste — recipient of hospitality
• Church Slavic: гость (gostĭ) — recipient of hospitality
• Church Slavic: ⰳⱁⱄⱅⱐ (gostĭ) — recipient of hospitality
• Old East Slavic: гость (gostĭ) — recipient of hospitality
• Old English: ġiest — recipient of hospitality
• Old English: cuma — recipient of hospitality
• Old Norse: gestr — recipient of hospitality
• Oromo: keessummaa — recipient of hospitality
• Ossetian: уазӕг (wazæg) — recipient of hospitality
• Pali: atithi — recipient of hospitality
• Pannonian Rusyn: госц (hosc) — recipient of hospitality
• Pannonian Rusyn: госцинска (hoscinska) — recipient of hospitality
• Pashto: مېلمه (melmá) — recipient of hospitality
• Pashto: رابللی (rābalálay) — recipient of hospitality
• Pela: paŋ35 — recipient of hospitality
• Pela: paŋ31 va55 — recipient of hospitality
• Dari: مِهْمَان (mihmān) — recipient of hospitality
• Iranian Persian: مِهْمان (mehmân) — recipient of hospitality
• Plautdietsch: Gaust — recipient of hospitality
• Polabian: ďüst — recipient of hospitality
• Polish: gość — recipient of hospitality
• Polish: gościni — recipient of hospitality
• Portuguese: hóspede — recipient of hospitality
• Portuguese: convidado — recipient of hospitality
• Romanian: oaspete — recipient of hospitality
• Romanian: musafir — recipient of hospitality
• Romanian: musafiră — recipient of hospitality
• Romansh: giast — recipient of hospitality
• Romansh: hosp — recipient of hospitality
• Russian: гость (gostʹ) — recipient of hospitality
• Russian: го́стья (góstʹja) — recipient of hospitality
• Northern Sami: guossi — recipient of hospitality
• Sanskrit: अतिथि (atithi) — recipient of hospitality
• Sardinian: cumbidàu — recipient of hospitality
• Serbo-Croatian: го̑ст — recipient of hospitality
• Serbo-Croatian: го̀шћа — recipient of hospitality
• Serbo-Croatian: gȏst — recipient of hospitality
• Serbo-Croatian: gòšća — recipient of hospitality
• Shan: ၶႅၵ်ႇ (khèk) — recipient of hospitality
• Sidamo: wosina — recipient of hospitality
• Slovak: hosť — recipient of hospitality
• Slovak: hostka — recipient of hospitality
• Slovene: gost — recipient of hospitality
• Slovene: gošća — recipient of hospitality
• Slovene: gostja — recipient of hospitality
• Lower Sorbian: gósć — recipient of hospitality
• Upper Sorbian: hósć — recipient of hospitality
• Spanish: huésped — recipient of hospitality
• Spanish: visita — recipient of hospitality
• Spanish: visitante — recipient of hospitality
• Spanish: convidado — recipient of hospitality
• Spanish: comensal — recipient of hospitality
• Svan: მუშგვრი (mušgvri) — recipient of hospitality
• Swahili: mgeni — recipient of hospitality
• Swedish: gäst — recipient of hospitality
• Sylheti: ꠇꠥꠐꠥꠝ (kuṭum) — recipient of hospitality
• Tagalog: bisita — recipient of hospitality
• Tajik: меҳмон (mehmon) — recipient of hospitality
• Tarifit: anewji — recipient of hospitality
• Tatar: кунак (qunaq) — recipient of hospitality
• Telugu: అతిథి (atithi) — recipient of hospitality
• Thai: แขก (kɛ̀ɛk) — recipient of hospitality
• Tibetan: མགྲོན་པོ (mgron po) — recipient of hospitality
• Tigrinya: ጋሻ (gaša) — recipient of hospitality
• Turkish: konuk — recipient of hospitality
• Turkish: misafir — recipient of hospitality
• Turkish: mihman — recipient of hospitality
• Turkmen: myhman — recipient of hospitality
• Tuvan: аалчы (aalçı) — recipient of hospitality
• Ukrainian: гість (histʹ) — recipient of hospitality
• Ukrainian: го́стя (hóstja) — recipient of hospitality
• Urdu: مِہْمان (mihmān) — recipient of hospitality
• Uyghur: مېھمان (mëhman) — recipient of hospitality
• Uzbek: mehmon — recipient of hospitality
• Vietnamese: khách — recipient of hospitality
• Volapük: lotan — recipient of hospitality
• Walloon: priyî — recipient of hospitality
• Walloon: invité — recipient of hospitality
• Wolaytta: imattaa — recipient of hospitality
• Wolof: gan — recipient of hospitality
• Yiddish: גאַסט (gast) — recipient of hospitality
• Zande: gino — recipient of hospitality
• Zazaki: meyman (diq) — recipient of hospitality
• Zhuang: bouxhek — recipient of hospitality
• Zhuang: hek — recipient of hospitality
• Afrikaans: gas — patron, customer
• Afrikaans: klant — patron, customer
• Afrikaans: klient — patron, customer
• Arabic: زَبُون (zabūn) — patron, customer
• Armenian: հաճախորդ (hačaxord) — patron, customer
• Basque: ostalari — patron, customer
• Bulgarian: посети́тел (posetítel) — patron, customer
• Bulgarian: клие́нт (kliént) — patron, customer
• Catalan: hoste — patron, customer
• Chinese Cantonese: 顧客 /顾客 (gu3 haak3) — patron, customer
• Chinese Mandarin: 顧客 /顾客 (gùkè) — patron, customer
• Czech: host — patron, customer
• Danish: gæst — patron, customer
• Dutch: gast — patron, customer
• Faroese: gestur — patron, customer
• Finnish: asiakas — patron, customer
• Finnish: vieras — patron, customer
• French: client — patron, customer
• French: cliente — patron, customer
• Galician: hóspede — patron, customer
• German: Gast — patron, customer
• Greek: πελάτης (pelátis) — patron, customer
• Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ (oréakh) — patron, customer
• Icelandic: gestur — patron, customer
• Italian: cliente — patron, customer
• Italian: ospite — patron, customer
• Japanese: 客 (kyaku) — patron, customer
• Japanese: お客さん (o-kyaku-san) — patron, customer
• Japanese: 顧客 (kokyaku) — patron, customer
• Korean: 손님 (sonnim) — patron, customer
• Korean: 고객 (gogaek) — patron, customer
• Central Kurdish: میوان (mîwan) — patron, customer
• Macedonian: го́стин (góstin) — patron, customer
• Old English: ġiest — patron, customer
• Old English: cuma — patron, customer
• Polish: gość — patron, customer
• Portuguese: hóspede — patron, customer
• Russian: посети́тель (posetítelʹ) — patron, customer
• Russian: посети́тельница (posetítelʹnica) — patron, customer
• Russian: постоя́лец (postojálec) — patron, customer
• Russian: клие́нт (klijént) — patron, customer
• Russian: клие́нтка (klijéntka) — patron, customer
• Slovene: gost — patron, customer
• Slovene: gostja — patron, customer
• Lower Sorbian: gósć — patron, customer
• Upper Sorbian: hósć — patron, customer
• Spanish: huésped — patron, customer
• Spanish: huéspeda — patron, customer
• Spanish: cliente — patron, customer
• Spanish: clienta — patron, customer
• Swedish: gäst — patron, customer
• Swedish: hotellgäst — patron, customer
• Thai: ลูกค้า (lûuk-káa) — patron, customer
• Turkish: konuk — patron, customer
• Turkish: misafir — patron, customer
• Turkish: mihman — patron, customer
• Vietnamese: khách — patron, customer
• Zazaki: mışterı — patron, customer
• Afrikaans: gaskunstenaar — invited performer
• Basque: gonbidatu — invited performer
• Belarusian: госць (hoscʹ) — invited performer
• Belarusian: го́сця (hóscja) — invited performer
• Bulgarian: гост (gost) — invited performer
• Bulgarian: го́стенка (góstenka) — invited performer
• Catalan: invitat — invited performer
• Catalan: invitada — invited performer
• Czech: host — invited performer
• Danish: gæst — invited performer
• Dutch: gast — invited performer
• Faroese: gestur — invited performer
• Finnish: vieras — invited performer
• French: invité — invited performer
• French: invitée — invited performer
• Galician: convidado — invited performer
• German: Gast — invited performer
• Greek: φιλοξενούμενος (filoxenoúmenos) — invited performer
• Greek: προσκεκλημένος (proskekliménos) — invited performer
• Hebrew: אוֹרֵחַ (oréakh) — invited performer
• Icelandic: gestur — invited performer
• Italian: ospite — invited performer
• Macedonian: гостин (gostin) — invited performer
• Khiamniungan Naga: shāpāu — invited performer
• Polish: gość — invited performer
• Portuguese: convidado — invited performer
• Portuguese: convidada — invited performer
• Russian: гость (gostʹ) — invited performer
• Russian: го́стья (góstʹja) — invited performer
• Slovak: hosť — invited performer
• Slovak: hostka — invited performer
• Slovak: hostia — invited performer
• Slovene: gost — invited performer
• Slovene: gostja — invited performer
• Lower Sorbian: gósć — invited performer
• Spanish: invitado — invited performer
• Spanish: invitada — invited performer
• Swedish: gäst — invited performer
• Swedish: gästartist — invited performer
• Telugu: అతిథి (atithi) — invited performer
• Turkish: davetli — invited performer
• Ukrainian: гість (histʹ) — invited performer
• Ukrainian: го́стя (hóstja) — invited performer
• Zazaki: meyman (diq) — invited performer
• Basque: gonbidatu — to appear as a guest
• Bulgarian: гостувам (gostuvam) — to appear as a guest
• Danish: gæste — to appear as a guest
• Finnish: esiintyä vieraana — to appear as a guest
• German: gastieren — to appear as a guest
• Greek: φιλοξενούμαι (filoxenoúmai) — to appear as a guest
• Hebrew: התארח (hit'aréakh) — to appear as a guest
• Macedonian: гостува (gostuva) — to appear as a guest
• Russian: гости́ть (gostítʹ) — to appear as a guest
• Russian: быть в гостя́х (bytʹ v gostjáx) — to appear as a guest
• Swedish: gästa — to appear as a guest
• Zazaki: meymaniye (diq) — to appear as a guest