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بستی

See also: پشتی

Urdu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Hindi بستی (bsty) (c. 1657),[1] semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसति (vasati).[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَسْتی • (bastī) f (Hindi spelling बस्ती)

  1. settlement
  2. colony
  3. a village; small town
  4. (figuratively) liveliness, bustlingness
    Synonym: رَونَق (raunaq)
  5. (biology) Eukaryota (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Declension

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Declension of بستی
singular plural
direct بستی (bastī) بستِیاں (bastiyā̃)
oblique بستی (bastī) بستِیوں (bastiyō̃)
vocative بستی (bastī) بستِیو (bastiyō)

References

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  1. ^ “بستی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  2. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “بستي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 155
  3. ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “بستی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  4. ^ 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

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More information
  • “بستی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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
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