abastar

Catalan

Etymology

From bastar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastí, past participle abastat)

1. to reach (to obtain by stretching the hand)
2. to manage
3. to supply; provide

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “abastar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “abastar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “abastar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “abastar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abastar, from a- +‎ bastar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastei, past participle abastado)

1. to suffice
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 100:

     Casandra era de tal feytura nẽ era moy grãde nẽ moy pequena, mays en tal grado que moy bẽ lle abastaua

     Cassandra's build was such that he was not very big nor very small, but in such a way that it really fits her

   Synonyms: abondar, chegar

2. to reach
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 57:

     ẽna çidade façamos hũa torre tam alta que abaste et atãga ata o çeo

     Let's build in this city a tower so high that it reaches and attains the sky

   Synonyms: abranguer, atanguer

3. to furnish

   Synonym: fornecer

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abastado
• abastamento
• abastante
• abastanza
• abasto

Related terms

• abastar
• abastecer
• bastar
• bastida

References

• “abastar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “abast” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “abastar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “abastar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “abastar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ladino

Verb

abastar (Latin spelling)

1. to suffice, be enough

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abastar. By surface analysis, a- +‎ basto +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧bas‧tar

Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastei, past participle abastado)

1. to supply
2. to suffice, be enough

Conjugation

Related terms

• abastança

Further reading

• “abastar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ bastar, from Vulgar Latin *bastāre, from Ancient Greek βαστάζειν (bastázein). Compare Italian bastare, Portuguese bastar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abasˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧bas‧tar

Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abasté, past participle abastado)

1. (transitive) to supply

   Synonym: abastecer

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “abastar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014