See also: USTA, U.S.T.A., ušta, ústa, and -usta

English

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Pronunciation

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Contraction

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usta

  1. (informal) used to: accustomed to
    • 1918, Adventure, page 71:
      That safe's one o' th' kind I'm usta.
    • 2011, By Red Neck Crick, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 324:
      It needs a lot of work, and it's a tad smaller than I'm usta, but you know what they say...
  2. (informal) used to: formerly did
    • 1941, James Howell Street, In my father's house:
      We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
  3. (informal) use to (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish اوستا (usta).

Noun

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usta m

  1. mason
  2. master

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Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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From Persian اوستا (ustâ).

Noun

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usta (definite accusative ustanı, plural ustalar)

  1. master, craftsman, expert
  2. foreman
  3. repairman

Declension

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    Declension of usta
singular plural
nominative usta
ustalar
definite accusative ustanı
ustaları
dative ustaya
ustalara
locative ustada
ustalarda
ablative ustadan
ustalardan
definite genitive ustanın
ustaların
    Possessive forms of usta
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) ustam ustalarım
sənin (your) ustan ustaların
onun (his/her/its) ustası ustaları
bizim (our) ustamız ustalarımız
sizin (your) ustanız ustalarınız
onların (their) ustası or ustaları ustaları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) ustamı ustalarımı
sənin (your) ustanı ustalarını
onun (his/her/its) ustasını ustalarını
bizim (our) ustamızı ustalarımızı
sizin (your) ustanızı ustalarınızı
onların (their) ustasını or ustalarını ustalarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) ustama ustalarıma
sənin (your) ustana ustalarına
onun (his/her/its) ustasına ustalarına
bizim (our) ustamıza ustalarımıza
sizin (your) ustanıza ustalarınıza
onların (their) ustasına or ustalarına ustalarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) ustamda ustalarımda
sənin (your) ustanda ustalarında
onun (his/her/its) ustasında ustalarında
bizim (our) ustamızda ustalarımızda
sizin (your) ustanızda ustalarınızda
onların (their) ustasında or ustalarında ustalarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) ustamdan ustalarımdan
sənin (your) ustandan ustalarından
onun (his/her/its) ustasından ustalarından
bizim (our) ustamızdan ustalarımızdan
sizin (your) ustanızdan ustalarınızdan
onların (their) ustasından or ustalarından ustalarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) ustamın ustalarımın
sənin (your) ustanın ustalarının
onun (his/her/its) ustasının ustalarının
bizim (our) ustamızın ustalarımızın
sizin (your) ustanızın ustalarınızın
onların (their) ustasının or ustalarının ustalarının

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • usta” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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From Persian اوستا (ustâ).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: us‧ta

Noun

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usta

  1. master
    Synonym: ustaz

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Derived terms

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References

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Finnish

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Noun

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usta

  1. partitive singular of uksi

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈu.sta/
  • Rhymes: -usta
  • Hyphenation: ù‧sta

Noun

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usta f (plural uste)

  1. the characteristic smell left by wild animals and traced by hunting dogs

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Latin

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Participle

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usta

  1. inflection of ustus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

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ustā

  1. ablative feminine singular of ustus

References

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  • usta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • usta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Czech

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta.

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Noun

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usta n pl

  1. (plural only, anatomy) mouth

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Czech: ústa

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /usta/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /usta/

Noun

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usta nvir pl (diminutive ustka, related adjective ustny)

  1. (anatomy, attested in Lesser Poland) mouth
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[1], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 21, 1:
      Otworzili sø na mø vsta (os) swoia iaco lew chwataiøcy y riczøcy
      [Otworzyli są na mię usta (os) swoja jako lew chwatający i ryczący]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[2], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 77, 34:
      Ieszcze karme gich bechø w usczech (in ore) gich
      [Jeszcze karmie jich biechą w uściech (in ore) jich]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[3], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 68, 19:
      Ani zatwarzay nade mnø szachta vst (os) swogich
      [Ani zatwarzaj nade mną szachta ust (os) swojich]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[4], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 32, 6:
      Slowem boszim nebosa sø sczwerdzona a duchem vst (spiritu oris) iego wszitka mocz gich
      [Słowem bożym niebiosa są śćwierdzona a duchem ust (spiritu oris) jego wszytka moc jich]
  2. (anatomy) lips
    • 1970 [Middle of the 15th century], Józef Reczek, Wacław Twardzik, editors, List Lentulusa w staropolskim przekładzie[5]:
      Nos yego y vsta (oris) bez wschey ganybi
      [Nos jego i usta (oris) bez wszej gańby]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[6], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 16, 5:
      Bichø ne molwila usta (os) moia scutkow ludzkich
      [Bychą nie mołwiła usta (os) moja skutkow ludzkich]
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[7], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], page I Prol 1:
      Duszø welbi, vsta cziscy, sercze weseli
      [Duszę wielbi, usta czyści. Sierce wiesieli]
  3. (zootomy, attested in Lesser Poland) mouth; beak
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[8], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 21, 22:
      Zbaw me z ust (ex ore) lwowich
      [Zbaw mie z ust (ex ore) lwowych]
  4. mistranslation of the ambiguous ōs as mouth instead of bone
    • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎[9], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 138, 14:
      Ne gest se vtagyla vsta moga ot czebe
      [Nie jest sie utajiła usta moja ot ciebie]

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “usta”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Mańczak, Witold (2017) “usta”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “usta”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish usta.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -usta
  • Syllabification: us‧ta

Noun

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usta nvir pl (diminutive ustka, related adjective ustny)

  1. (anatomy) mouth
    Synonyms: jadaczka, kopara
  2. (anatomy) lips
    Synonym: wargi
  3. (obsolete, rare) face (person as an entity)
    Synonym: twarz

Declension

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Derived terms

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adjectives
adverbs
nouns
phrases
verbs
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adjectives
adverbs
nouns

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), usta is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 12 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 1 time in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 926th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “usta”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 639

Further reading

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  • usta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • usta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “usta”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • USTA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.10.2016
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “usta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “usta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “usta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 372
  • usta in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوسته (usta), from Persian اوستا (ustâ).

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usta f (plural ustale)

  1. supervisor

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References

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  • usta in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta.

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  • IPA(key): /ǔːsta/
  • Hyphenation: u‧sta

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ústa n pl (Cyrillic spelling у́ста)

  1. (plural only) mouth

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Further reading

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  • usta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *usta.

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ústa n pl

  1. mouth (the opening of an animal through which food is ingested)

Inflection

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Neuter, hard
nominative ústa
genitive úst
plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
ústa
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
úst
dative
(dajȃlnik)
ústom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
ústa
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
ústih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
ústi

Further reading

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  • usta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Classical Persian اوستا (ūstā).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [usˈtɑ]
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  • Hyphenation: us‧ta

Noun

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usta (definite accusative ustayı, plural ustalar)

  1. master, expert
    Coordinate terms: çırak, kalfa

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative usta
Definite accusative ustayı
Singular Plural
Nominative usta ustalar
Definite accusative ustayı ustaları
Dative ustaya ustalara
Locative ustada ustalarda
Ablative ustadan ustalardan
Genitive ustanın ustaların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular ustam ustalarım
2nd singular ustan ustaların
3rd singular ustası ustaları
1st plural ustamız ustalarımız
2nd plural ustanız ustalarınız
3rd plural ustaları ustaları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular ustamı ustalarımı
2nd singular ustanı ustalarını
3rd singular ustasını ustalarını
1st plural ustamızı ustalarımızı
2nd plural ustanızı ustalarınızı
3rd plural ustalarını ustalarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular ustama ustalarıma
2nd singular ustana ustalarına
3rd singular ustasına ustalarına
1st plural ustamıza ustalarımıza
2nd plural ustanıza ustalarınıza
3rd plural ustalarına ustalarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular ustamda ustalarımda
2nd singular ustanda ustalarında
3rd singular ustasında ustalarında
1st plural ustamızda ustalarımızda
2nd plural ustanızda ustalarınızda
3rd plural ustalarında ustalarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular ustamdan ustalarımdan
2nd singular ustandan ustalarından
3rd singular ustasından ustalarından
1st plural ustamızdan ustalarımızdan
2nd plural ustanızdan ustalarınızdan
3rd plural ustalarından ustalarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular ustamın ustalarımın
2nd singular ustanın ustalarının
3rd singular ustasının ustalarının
1st plural ustamızın ustalarımızın
2nd plural ustanızın ustalarınızın
3rd plural ustalarının ustalarının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular ustayım ustalarım
2nd singular ustasın ustalarsın
3rd singular usta
ustadır
ustalar
ustalardır
1st plural ustayız ustalarız
2nd plural ustasınız ustalarsınız
3rd plural ustalar ustalardır

Derived terms

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Venetan

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Noun

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usta f (plural uste)

  1. smell (the sense of smell)
  2. nose (intuition)

Synonyms

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