bosta
Basque edit
Numeral edit
bosta
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since 1671. From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) + the suffix *-st-;[1] Compare German Kot (“feces”), Welsh budr (“filthy”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bosta f (plural bostas)
- (uncountable) dung; manure (of cattle)
- 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:
- bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta
- I'm running for the loaf, if I find food to eat, because yet this afternoon I ought to spread a large pile of manure
- 1927, X. Lesta Meis, Estebo, A Coruña: Lar, page 106:
- O Carpulla andaba á bosta. Cun cesto de aro colgado debaixo do brazo, iba e viña por camiños e carreiros recollendo canta alcontraba para facer esterco
- Carpulla ("Hunger") used to search for dung. With a hoop basked under the arm, he came and went along the roads and ways, picking up as much as he could find to make manure
- platter, an individual cow dung
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Related terms edit
- bouta (a mixture of cow feces and water once used as a sealant).
References edit
- “bosta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “bosta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “bosta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Julián Santano Moreno, "Celtibérico boustom, iberorromance busto, “pastizal, vacada” y bosta “boñiga”", Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique, n° 56, 2014, p. 227-262.
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic بَسْطة (basṭa, “width, ampleness, increase, excellence”), rarer also بُسْطة (busṭa). Additionally, Maltese bosta is the regular outcome of Arabic بُسَطاء (busaṭāʔ, “the common people, the uneducated crowd”); it is possible, though not necessary, that this etymon also contributed to the Maltese word.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bosta
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Attested since 1671. From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) + the suffix *-st-;[1] Compare German Kot (“feces”), Welsh budr (“filthy”).
Back-formation from bostal (“corral: cattle pen”), from Late Latin bōstar, būstar, from bōs (“bull”) and stāre (“to stand, remain; a standing, habitation”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bos‧ta
Noun edit
bosta f (plural bostas)
References edit
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bọ̑sta
Spanish edit
Noun edit
bosta f (plural bostas)
Further reading edit
- “bosta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014