уста
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *usta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
уста́ • (ustá) f
- (also figurative) mouth
- (collective) lips
Declension edit
References edit
Carpathian Rusyn edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *usta.
Noun edit
уста • (usta)
Further reading edit
- Kercha, Ihor (2012) Словник русько-русинськый: у 2 т. [Russian-Rusyn Dictionary: in 2 vols] (in Russian and Carpathian Rusyn), Uzhhorod: PoliPrint
Macedonian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta.
Noun edit
уста • (usta) f (plural усти, relational adjective устен, diminutive усте or устичка)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish usta), from Persian استاد (ostâd).
Noun edit
уста • (usta) m
Old East Slavic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *usta. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic оуста (usta) and Old Polish usta.
Pronunciation edit
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /uˈstɑ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /uˈsta/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /uˈsta/
- Hyphenation: у‧ста
Noun edit
уста (usta) n (plural only)
- mouth
- 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 2:
- не рече оустꙑ тъчью иꙁгл҃аахъ·
- ne reče usty tŭčĭju izgl:aaxŭ·
- He didn't say: I just pronounced [them] with [my] mouth;
Declension edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙋста”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][2] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1273
Russian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”). Cognates include Sanskrit आस् (ās, “mouth”) and Latin ōs (“mouth”). Compare Polish usta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
уста́ • (ustá) n inan pl (genitive уст, plural only)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
у́ста n pl (Latin spelling ústa)
- (plural only) mouth
Declension edit
plural | |
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nominative | у́ста |
genitive | у́ста̄ |
dative | устима |
accusative | уста |
vocative | уста |
locative | устима |
instrumental | устима |
Further reading edit
- “уста” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Tabasaran edit
Etymology edit
From Turkic, ultimately from Persian استاد. Compare Azerbaijani usta.
Noun edit
уста • (usta)
Ukrainian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
уста́ • (ustá) n inan pl (genitive уст, plural only)
- Alternative form of вуста́ (vustá)
Declension edit
References edit
- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “уста”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
- “уста”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
Yakut edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
уста • (usta)
- (geometry, general) length (spatial)
- length (temporal), duration
- сыл устата ― sıl ustata ― the length of the year
Derived terms edit
- устата (ustata, “during, throughout”)