verst

English

Alternative forms

• versta
• verste
• werst

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɝst/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Homophone: versed

Noun

verst (plural versts)

1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile.
   • 1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849):

     |The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […]

   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Reginald in Russia”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], OCLC 1263167, page 6:

     Her particular part of the country was a few hundred versts the other side of Tamboff, with some fifteen miles of agrarian disturbance between her and the nearest neighbour.

   • 1918, Aylmer and Louise Maude, trans. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford 1998, p. 604:

     ‘Is it much further, Michael?’ she asked the clerk, to dispel the thoughts that frightened her. ‘They say it's seven versts from this village.’

   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists.

Translations

unit of length

• Armenian: վերստ (hy) (verst)
• Azerbaijani: verst
• Bashkir: саҡрым (saqrım)
• Belarusian: вярста́ f (vjarstá)
• Bulgarian: ве́рста f (vérsta)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 俄里 (ngo⁴ lei⁵)

  Mandarin: 俄里 (zh) (élǐ)

• Czech: versta f
• Dutch: werst (nl) f
• Estonian: verst (et)
• Finnish: virsta (fi)
• French: verste (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერსი (versi)
• German: Werst (de) f
• Greek: βέρστι (vérsti)
• Hebrew: וֶרְסְטָה‎ f
• Hungarian: verszta
• Italian: versta (it) f
• Japanese: 露里 (ja) (ろり, rori), ベルスタ (berusuta), ヴェルスタ (verusuta)
• Kazakh: шақырым (şaqyrym)
• Korean: 베르스타 (ko) (bereuseuta)
• Kyrgyz: чакырым (ky) (çakırım)
• Latvian: versts m
• Lithuanian: varstas m
• Macedonian: врста f (vrsta)
• Ottoman Turkish: وه‌رست‎ (verst)
• Persian: ورست‎ (fa) (verst)
• Polish: wiorsta (pl) f
• Portuguese: versta f
• Romanian: verstă (ro) f
• Russian: верста́ (ru) f (verstá)
• Slovak: versta f
• Slovene: vrsta (sl) f
• Swedish: verst (sv) c
• Tatar: чакрым (tt) (çaqrım)
• Turkish: verst, çakrım
• Ukrainian: верста́ f (verstá)
• Uyghur: چاقىرىم‎‎ (chaqirim‎)
• Uzbek: chaqirim (uz)
• Yakut: биэрэстэ (biereste)
• Yiddish: ווערסט‎ m (verst), וויאָרסט‎ m (vyorst)

Anagrams

• 'verts, trevs, verts

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛrst

Adjective

verst

1. Superlative form of ver

Adjective

verst

1. Superlative form of vers

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɛst]

Adverb

verst

1. worst, superlative degree of illa

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Icelandic

Adverb

verst

1. worst, superlative degree of illa

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Middle English

Noun

verst

1. first

Adjective

verst

1. first

Adverb

verst

1. first

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• vondest

Etymology

From Old Norse verstr.

Pronunciation

• (Fredrikstad dialect) IPA^(key): [ʋɛ̝ʂːʈ]

Adjective

verst

1. indefinite singular superlative degree of vond: worst
2. indefinite singular superlative degree of ille: worst
3. indefinite singular superlative degree of ond: worst

References

• “verst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse verst.

Adverb

verst

1. worst

References

• “verst” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.