"kist" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kists [plural]
Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|non|kista|nocap=1|t=chest}} borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”), {{m+|en|cist|t=crypt}} English cist (“crypt”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} kist (plural kists)
  1. (Scotland) A chest. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-kist-en-noun-jr~-nASK Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 29 10 10 2 22
  2. (Scotland) A coffin. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-kist-en-noun-pRRFJXCG Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 29 10 10 2 22
  3. (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: cist (extra: crypt) Categories (topical): Archaeology
    Sense id: en-kist-en-noun-rvc81Vwu Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: kists [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|inc-hnd}} Borrowed from Hindustani, {{der|en|ar|قِسْط|lit=quota}} Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”), {{root|en|ar|ق س ط}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} kist (plural kists)
  1. (British India) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue. Tags: British, India Related terms: kistbandi
    Sense id: en-kist-en-noun-LpD8M5Ki Categories (other): British India English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 29 10 10 2 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} kist
  1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of kiss Tags: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Form of: kiss
    Sense id: en-kist-en-verb-b6AOkXaR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: kists [present, singular, third-person], kisting [participle, present], kisted [participle, past], kisted [past]
Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|non|kista|nocap=1|t=chest}} borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”), {{m+|en|cist|t=crypt}} English cist (“crypt”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)
  1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin. Tags: Scotland, transitive Derived forms: kist o' whistles
    Sense id: en-kist-en-verb-ip~mVkMQ Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 29 10 10 2 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.