каштаваць

• kaštavać — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

Borrowed from Polish kosztować, in both senses. By surface analysis, кошт (košt) +‎ -аваць (-avacʹ). Compare Russian коштова́ть (koštovátʹ) and Ukrainian коштувати (koštuvaty), куштува́ти (kuštuváty).

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• Rhymes: -at͡sʲ

каштава́ць • (kaštavácʹ) impf

1. (intransitive) to cost, to be worth

   до́рага каштава́ць ― dóraha kaštavácʹ ― to cost a lot (literally, “to cost expensive”)

   Ко́лькі кашту́е?

   Kólʹki kaštúje?

   How much does it cost?

   • 1892 [1878], Szymon Dickstein, translated by Напалеон Чарноцкі and Антон Ражаў, Dziadźka Anton, Tilsit, translation of Ojciec Szymon, page 4:

     Toż skażu ja wam szczyruju praûdu, szto jak pan wyhanić u browary wiadro wodki, to jana jamu kasztuje 10 złotych jakich, u błahi hod — 12 złotych; heta znaczycsa i za muku i za drowy i za rabotu i winniku: usim zapłacić.

     I'll also tell you the sincere truth, that when the master brews a bucket of vodka in a brewery, it costs him merely 10 zlotys, in a bad year — 12 zlotys; namely for the flour and for the firewood and for the labor and the distiller's wages: to pay to everyone.

каштава́ць • (kaštavácʹ) impf (perfective скаштава́ць or пакаштава́ць)

1. (transitive) to taste, to sample

   каштава́ць я́блык ― kaštavácʹ jáblyk ― to taste an apple

   каштава́ць стра́ву ― kaštavácʹ strávu ― to taste a dish

   • 1938 [1883], Robert Louis Stevenson, Востраў скарбаў, Мінск: ДВБ, translation of Treasure Island, page 4:

     Ром яму падалі, і ён з выглядам знаўцы прыняўся, не спяшаючыся, каштаваць кожны глыток. Піў і паглядваў то на скалы, то на карчмовую шыльду.

     Rom jamu padali, i jon z vyhljadam znaŭcy prynjaŭsja, nje spjašajučysja, kaštavacʹ kóžny hlytók. Piŭ i pahljadvaŭ to na skaly, to na karčmóvuju šylʹdu.

     (literally, “Rum was brought to him. And, looking as if he were an expert, he started to taste every sip at a leisurely pace. He was drinking while casting glances at the cliffs and at the pub's signboard.”)

2. (transitive, figurative) to feel, to experience

• “каштаваць” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• “каштаваць”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)