name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
kist
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CMU ARPABET: K IH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A chest.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 3
A coffin.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of cist (“crypt”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.
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Usage: British, India
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noun
Meaning 6
Synonym of Nakh, a Caucasian people, particularly the Nakh living in Georgia.
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Synonyms: Nakh
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verb
Meaning 7
simple past and past participle of kiss.
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Usage: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
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verb
Meaning 8
To place in a coffin.
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Usage: Scotland, transitive
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History
Etymology
From the German surname, named after the town Kist in Würzburg. Also a Westphalian German Low German spelling variant of Kirst.
Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh
Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”).
From the root of Georgian ქისტები (kisṭebi, “Ingush”).