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Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Deverbal from děsit.
Noun
děs m inan
- horror, terror, dread
- vyvolat děs ― to cause dread
Declension
Declension of děs (hard masculine inanimate)
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
děs
- second-person singular imperative of děsit
Further reading
- “děs”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “děs”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “děs”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Romani
Noun
děs m (plural děsa)
- (International Standard) Alternative form of dives
References
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o děs¹#³, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 123