بستی

See also: پشتی

Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसति (vasati).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəs.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: بَس‧تی
• Homophone: بسطی (bast̤ī)

Noun

بَسْتی • (bastī) f (Hindi spelling बस्ती)

1. settlement, small village
2. colony
3. (figuratively) liveliness, bustlingness
4. (biology) Eukaryota (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Declension

Declension of بستی
	singular	plural
direct	بستی (bastī)	بستیاں (bastiyā̃)
oblique	بستی (bastī)	بستیوں (bastiyō̃)
vocative	بستی (bastī)	بستیو (bastiyō)

Further reading

• “بستی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “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.