Dost
German, noun
Dost is spelled D-O-S-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dost is a German masculine noun meaning “any plant of the genus Origanum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, döst is a different word: “second-person singular/plural present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Buschiges, etwas das in Büscheln wächst”.
What does Dost mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineany plant of the genus Origanum
- 2
datedmasculineoregano (Origanum vulgare)
- 3
masculineobsoletetuft (of a plant, of hair etc.)
verb
- 1
second-person singular/plural present
- 2
third-person singular present
- 3
plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. etwas Buschiges, etwas das in Büscheln wächst 2. Pflanze aus der Gattung Origanum, speziell die Art Origanum vulgare
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Dost
- Dostes genitive
- Dosts genitive
- Doste plural
- Dosten obsolete plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Dost
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Dost in German?
Dost appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).