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Urdu
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-eti Urdu بَسْتی (bastī)
Inherited from Middle Hindi بستی (bsty) (c. 1657),[1] semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसति (vasati).[2][3][4]
Pronunciation
Noun
بَسْتی • (bastī) f (Hindi spelling बस्ती)
- settlement
- colony
- a village; small town
- (figuratively) liveliness, bustlingness
- Synonym: رَونَق (raunaq)
- (biology) Eukaryota (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Declension
| Declension of بستی
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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بستی (bastī)
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بستِیاں (bastiyā̃)
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| oblique
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بستی (bastī)
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بستِیوں (bastiyō̃)
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| vocative
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بستی (bastī)
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بستِیو (bastiyō)
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References
- ^ “بستی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “بستي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 155
- ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “بستی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- ^ John Shakespear (1834) “بستی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
Further reading
More information
- “بستی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بستی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vásati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 667