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{{also|Haste|hasté}}
==English==

===Etymology===
Blend of {{inh|en|enm|hasten|pos=verb}}, (compare {{cog|nl|haasten}}, {{cog|de|hasten}}, {{cog|da|haste}}, {{cog|sv|hasta||to hasten, rush}}) and {{inh|en|enm|hast||haste|pos=noun}}, from {{der|en|fro|haste}} (whence {{cog|fr|-}} {{m|fr|hâte}}),<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haste Etymology at merriam-webster.com]</ref> from Old {{der|en|frk|*haifsti|*hai(f)st|t=violence}},<ref>''Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française'', Janvier 2004, p. 524</ref> from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*haifstiz||struggle, conflict}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*ḱeyp-||to ridicule, mock, anger}}. Akin to {{cog|ofs|hāst}}, {{m|ofs|hāste||haste}}, {{cog|ang|hǣst||violence}}, {{cog|ang|hǣste||violent, impetuous, vehement|pos=adj}}, {{cog|non|heift//heipt||feud}}, {{cog|got|𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃||rivalry}}. Cognate with {{cog|de|heftig||vehement}} and {{cog|da|heftig||vehement}}. {{rfv-etym|en}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/heɪst/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-haste.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|eɪst|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|-|s}}

# [[speed|Speed]]; [[swiftness]]; [[dispatch]].
#: {{ux|en|We were running late so we finished our meal in '''haste'''.}}
#* {{RQ:KJV|1 Samuel|12|8|passage=The king's business required '''haste'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2017|author=Russell M. Peterson|title=The Armies of Forever|page=368|passage=There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their '''hastes''' to be the first to sign away their souls.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[urgency|Urgency]]; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; [[precipitance]]; [[vehemence]].
#* {{RQ:KJV|Psalms|116|11|passage=I said in my '''haste''', All men are liars.}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|haste makes waste|hasten|hastily|hastiness|hasty|in haste|make haste|more haste, less speed|[[posthaste]], [[post haste]]|great haste makes great waste|make haste slowly}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|speed, swiftness, dispatch}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|tələsiklik}}, {{t|az|qaçaqaç}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|бързина|f}}, {{t|bg|бързане|n}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|pressa|f}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|spěch|m}}
* Danish: {{t|da|hast|c}}
* French: {{t+|fr|hâte|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Eile|f}}, {{t+|de|Hast|f}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|σπουδή|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|sietség}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|kippu}}, {{t|izh|kiire}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|dithneas|m}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{t|ckb|پەلە}}
* Latgalian: {{t|ltg|skuba|f}}, {{t|ltg|strāpuošona|f}}, {{t|ltg|drystuošona|f}}
* Latin: {{t|la|celeritas|f}}, {{t|la|festinatio}}, {{t|la|properantia}}, {{t|la|festinantia}}, {{t|la|concitus|m}}
* Old Polish: {{t|zlw-opl|śpiech}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Haust|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|pośpiech|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pressa}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|спе́шка|f}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|cabhag|f}}, {{t|gd|deann|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|prisa|f}}, {{t+|es|premura}}, {{t+|es|acucia|f}}, {{t+|es|priesa|f}}, {{t+|es|apuro|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|brådska|c}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|поспіх|m}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|håsse|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To urge onward; to [[hasten]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice|II|ii|page=168|passage={{w|Bassanio|''Baſſ.''}} You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo '''haſted''' that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|archaic}} To move with haste.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1594|author=|title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)|chapter=The Wounds of Civill War|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10336
|passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla '''hastes''' / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1825|author=Samuel Johnson|title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050
|passage=He '''hastes''' away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1881|author=Thomas Carlyle|title=Past and Present|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13534
|passage=Samson '''hastes''' not; but neither does he pause to rest.}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|move with haste}} {{l|en|hurry}}, {{l|en|rush}}, {{l|en|scamper}}, {{l|en|scramble}}, {{l|en|scurry}}

===References===
<references/>

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aehst|ashet|haets|hates|heast|heats|hetas|sateh|sheat}}

==Basque==

===Pronunciation===
{{eu-pr}}

===Noun===
{{eu-noun|in}}

# {{eu-verb form of|hasi|t=to begin|vn|nodot=1}}; [[beginning]]
#: {{syn|eu|hasiera|hastapen}}

====Declension====
{{eu-decl-inanim}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:EH}}
* {{R:OEH}}

==Czech==

===Pronunciation===
* {{cs-IPA}}
* {{rhymes|cs|astɛ|s=2}}

===Verb===
{{head|cs|verb form|imperative}}

# {{infl of|cs|hasit||2|p|imp}}

==Esperanto==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|eo|LL-Q143 (epo)-Lepticed7-haste.wav}}

===Adverb===
{{eo-head}}

# [[hastily]]

==German==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/ˈhastə/}}
* {{audio|de|De-haste.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|de|has|te}}
* {{homophone|de|hasste}}

===Verb===
{{head|de|verb form}}

# {{verb form of|de|hasten||1|s|pres|;|1//3|s|sub|I|;|s|imp}}

===Contraction===
{{head|de|contraction}}

# {{lb|de|colloquial}} {{contraction of|de|[[hast]] [[du]]|nocap=1|nodot=1}}

==Middle French==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|frm|fro|haste}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|frm|/ˈhɑːtə/}}

===Noun===
{{frm-noun|f}}

# {{l|en|haste}}, [[speed]]

====Descendants====
* {{desc|fr|hâte}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Verb===
{{nn-verb-1}}

# {{alternative form of|nn|hasta}}

==Old French==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|fro|hast|ast}}

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|fro|frk|*haifsti|*hai(f)st|t=violence, haste}}, from {{der|fro|gem-pro|*haifstiz||conflict, struggle}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|fro|/ˈhastə/|a=classical}}
* {{IPA|fro|/ˈhaːtə/|a=late}}

===Noun===
{{fro-noun|f}}<ref>{{R:Godefroy}}</ref>

# [[urgency]], [[haste]], [[speed]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fro|haster}}
* {{l|fro|hasteier}}
* {{l|fro|hastece}}, {{l|fro|hastance}}
* {{l|fro|hastif}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|frm|haste}}
** {{desc|fr|hâte}}
* {{desc|wa|hausse}} {{q|Forrières}}, {{l|wa|håsse}} {{q|Liégeois}}
* {{desc|bor=1|dum|haest|haeste|haste|hast}} {{q|reborrowing<ref>http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=ONW&id=ID2489&article=haast</ref><ref>{{R:nl:Etymologiebank|haast1}}</ref>}}
** {{desc|nl|haast}}
*** {{desc|af|haas}}
** {{desc|vls|hoast|bor=1}}
** {{desc|gml|hāst|bor=1}}
*** {{desc|da|hast|bor=1}}
*** {{desc|nb|hast|bor=1}}
*** {{desc|nn|hast|bor=1}}
*** {{desc|de|Hast|bor=1}}
*** {{desc|sv|hast|bor=1}}
* {{desc|bor=1|enm|haste|hast}}
** {{desc|en|haste}}

===References===
<references />

==Portuguese==

===Etymology===
From {{m|pt|hasta}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pt-IPA}}
* {{hyph|pt|has|te}}

===Noun===
{{pt-noun|f}}

# [[pole]]
# {{lb|pt|plant}} [[stem]], [[stalk]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|pt|hastear}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:pt:Priberam}}