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English

Etymology 1

Written form of a reduction of has to.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæs.tə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æstə

Verb

hasta

1. (colloquial) third-person singular simple present indicative of hafta: Contraction of has to (“is required to”).

   He hasta visit the doctor.

Etymology 2

From Spanish hasta (“until”), especially hasta luego (“until later”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːstə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstə

Interjection

hasta

1. (colloquial) goodbye

Derived terms

• hasta la pasta
• hasta pasta

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-der.

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰástas

Sanskrit हस्त (hasta)bor.

English hasta

Borrowed from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌstə/
• Rhymes: -ʌstə

Noun

hasta (plural hastas)

1. (Indian classical dance) A hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song
   • 2009 January 21, Joe Fiorito, “Tamil dance fine gesture even for our crop of snow”, in Toronto Star‎^[3]:

     A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around.

Etymology 4

A hasta (sense 2)

Learned borrowing from Latin hasta.

Noun

hasta (plural hastae)

1. (handwriting) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   Coordinate term: coda

   • 1897, R[obert] S[eymour] Conway, “356–367 Tabulae Iguvinae”, in The Italic Dialects […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 402:

     In Table I the hastae of n and m are regularly vertical and of the same height, while in II a and II b they vary in height and are often out of the perpendicular.

   • 1976, Basil Gray, “Introduction to the Exhibition”, in The Arts of Islam: Hayward Gallery, 8 April–4 July 1976, [London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, →ISBN, page 29:

     In the 12th century in Persia and later in Anatolia a new style of monumental kufic becomes the rule, with the tall hastae of the letters plaited.

   • 1984, Eva Baer, “Maʿdin”, in C[lifford] E[dmund] Bosworth, E[meri] van Donzel, B[ernard] Lewis, Ch[arles] Pellat, editors, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, [2nd] edition, volume V (Fascicules 93–94; Maʿalt͟hāyā–al-Mad͟jarra), Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 992, column 1:

     On Mamlūk metalware, inscriptions appear not only in continuous and intersecting bands which may occupy a considerable part of an object, but also in a circular arrangement in which the hastae of the letters point towards the centre.

   • 1985, Helen Philon, “Stems, Leaves and Water-Weeds: Underglaze-Painted Pottery in Syria and Egypt”, in Julian Raby, editor, The Art of Syria and the Jazīra, 1100-1250 (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art; 1), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Oxford University Press for the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, →ISBN, page 114:

     The “stem and leaf” motif covering the area between the long hastae of the letters is delineated by a quick curving stroke with curls, “comma-shaped” leaves and dots, which resemble the sprays on Fatimid lustre-wares (fig.2.). […] The long hastae of the letters on the Ḥamā piece are not emphasised by parallel strokes but seem to belong to less elaborate writing styles, while the curling stem between the alif and lām finds its exact parallel on Fāṭimid lustre-painted vessels, of the 11th-12th century.

   • 2011 February 15, Sonja Neef, translated by Anthony Mathews, “Before a Line”, in Imprint and Trace: Handwriting in the Age of Technology, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 54:

     In the following chapters of the Literatum Latinarum Mercator then develops a prescriptive guide how to perform the ductus of writing by measuring the individual letters of the alphabet against these ideal proportions of the letter y and analyzing them according to his categorization of the line types into elements (‘hastae’ and ‘codae’), all of which, however crooked they may be, can always be accurately calculated. The cursivization of the hastae, the ligature of the letters by means of hairlines and the spaces separating the letters are most precisely covered by his rules.

   • 2011 June 30, Ian S. Moyer, “The story according to Apollonios and Maiistas”, in Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 3 (The Delian Sarapis aretalogy and the politics of syncretism), footnote 42, page 156:

     The Π of CE 3 has a shorter right hasta and the horizontal bar projects to the right, while in CE 1, the hastae are equal or almost equal in length and the horizontal bar varies, sometimes projecting, sometimes not.

   • 2013, Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler, “Similarities among the shapes of writing and their effects on learning”, in Susanne R. Borgwaldt, Terry Joyce, editors, Typology of Writing Systems (Benjamins Current Topics; 51), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 42:

     The uppercase letters of the classical Latin alphabet, as well as the lowercase forms that evolved later, more often than not begin with a hasta on the left side and have a coda to the right. […] We refer to letters with a hasta to the right of the coda as b-type letters.

   • 2017, Japer Gaunt, “Metal Objects (207–282)”, in Bonna D. Wescoat, The Monuments of the Eastern Hill (Samothrace: Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; 9), Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, →ISBN, page 433, column 2:

     A plains sheet of metal has been cut into the form of an epsilon (one of the hastae broken away).

2. (Ancient Rome) A spear carried by early Roman legionaries.
   • 1765, [Johann Joachim] Winkelmann, translated by Henry Fuseli, “An Answer to the Foregoing Letter, and a Further Explication of the Subject”, in Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: […], London: […] [F]or the Translator, and Sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, pages 212–213:

     Eternity was, by the ancients, drawn either ſitting on a Globe, or rather Sphere, with a Haſta in her hand; or ſtanding, with the Sphere in one hand, and the Haſta in the other; or with the Sphere in her hand, and no Haſta; or elſe covered with a floating Veil.

   • 1849, Patrick Colquhoun, “Title IV. The Paternal Authority—[…]”, in A Summary of the Roman Civil Law, […], volume I, part I, London: William Benning and Co., […], →OCLC, § 549, page 466:

     They divided the hair with a hasta. […] some suppose that the hasta was prospectively typical.

   • 2018 August 21, Joe Mack High, “The Legion”, in The Centurion: A Tale of the Crucifixion, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

     To control the prisoners, we will need a few shortened hastae. […] As everyone will be armed with his short sword, one hasta per profile should be adequate. I will prepare a request for food and shortened hastae. […] The quartermaster may have to prepare the hastae since they now are a ceremonial weapon.

Further reading

• Hasta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Athas, Haast, Tahas, Tasha, haats, has at, tahas, thaas

Asturian

Alternative forms

• fasta (literary)
• ta (colloquial)
• ata (obsolete)
• ḥasta, ḥata (Eastern)
• hástasa, ḥástasa (Eastern, used in compounds with some adverbs)

  hástasagora ― until now

  hástasaequí ― up to here

  hástasarriba ― up to the top

Etymology

The main form with h-, probably borrowed from Spanish hasta (although uncertain), the form fasta was the dominant one in historical literature, but also probably borrowed from Old Spanish fasta, and not in popular use anymore (although the Eastern variants with ḥ- suggest it was). The only medieval form was ata (attested in one 19th century translation of Horatio's Beatus ille), where perhaps the colloquial form ta descends from, used mostly in farewells and compounds. Some authors have considered ta to be the only native form still in use.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasta/ [ˈas̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: has‧ta

Preposition

hasta

1. until

Further reading

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “hasta”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “hasta”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Breton

Verb

hasta

1. to hurry

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhasta/ [ˈhas.ta] (spelling-based)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔasta/ [ˈʔas.ta] (Spanish-based)
• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Preposition

hásta (Basahan spelling ᜑᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. until

   Synonyms: sagkod, hanggan

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish hasta (“until”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasta/, [ˈas̪.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Preposition

hasta

1. until; till

Crimean Tatar

Other scripts
Cyrillic	хаста (hasta)
Roman

Etymology

From Persian خسته (xaste).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Noun

hasta

1. patient (someone who receives treatment from a doctor)

Declension

Declension of hasta

	singular	plural
nominative	hasta	hastalar
genitive	hastanıñ	hastalarnıñ
dative	hastağa	hastalarğa
accusative	hastanı	hastalarnı
locative	hastada	hastalarda
ablative	hastadan	hastalardan

Derived terms

• hasta olmaq
• hastacan
• hastahane
• hastalıq
• hastalıqlı

References

• “hasta”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hasta.

Preposition

hasta

1. until

Fala

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hasta, from Old Spanish fasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasta/
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: has‧ta

Preposition

hasta

1. up to (as much as)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme VI, Chapter 1::

     Poin encontralsi, a o millol, hasta “oito” o mais.

     There can be found, at best, up to “eight” or more.

2. until (up to the time of)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:

     Esti términu Mañegu, o mais pequenu dos tres, formaba parti, con términus de Vilamel i Trevellu, da pruvincia de Salamanca hasta o anu 1833 […]

     This San Martinese locality, the smallest of the three, formed, along with the Vilamen and Trevejo localities, the Salamanca province until the year 1833 […]

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[4], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 156

Finnish

Alternative forms

• hapsea

Noun

hasta

1. partitive singular of hapsi

Anagrams

• sahat

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish خسته (ḫästä, “wounded”) from Persian خسته (“sick, ill”); compare Azerbaijani xəstə and Turkish hasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑsˈtɑ/
• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Adjective

hasta (comparative taa hasta, superlative en hasta)

1. sick, ill, sickly

   aar hasta

   extremely sick

   hasta bakmaa

   to take care of the sick

2. sick, wicked

Derived terms

• hastalanmaa (“to get sick”)
• hastalık (“illness”)

Further reading

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “хаста”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 78
• Kopuşçu M. İ., Todorova S. A., Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “hasta”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 516
• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “hasta”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 38

Galician

Alternative forms

• haste

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin hasta, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰast- (“branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈastɐ]

Noun

hasta f (plural hastas)

1. pole; flagpole
   • 1390, Jose Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:

     Et rrei Calrros entẽdeo, et com̃o estaua armado de moi boa loriga et de moy boo elmo et cõ moy boa espada et cõplido de grraça de Deus, que era cõ el, entrou ontre as azes dos mouros dando moy grãdes feridas a destro et seestro, matãdo moytos deles ata que chegou onde estaua a carreta, et dou cõ a espada ẽna aste en que estaua o pendon et cortoo

     King Charlemagne understood, and since he was well armed with an excellent chain mail and a very good helm and a very good sword and full with the Grace of God, which was with him, he entered among the lines of the Moors giving large wounds left and right, killing many of them till he arrived where the wagon was, and he hit with the sword the pole where the pennon was and cut it down

   Synonyms: mastro, poste

2. shaft
   • 1440, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 264:

     Et o dito Lopo d'Amoeyro, non acatando a dita trégoa e en quebrantamento dela, diso que o dito dia donte que foran XVIII dias do dito mes do dito ano, en término da dita friguesía de Codeyro, e sen o dito Lopo Rodrigues faser mal nen dano ao dito Lopo d'Amoeyro, que aderesçara a él por lo matar, díselle çertas palabras desonestas e injuriosas, et que él e outros seus III omes, que lle poseran as lanças enos peytos, por lo matar, e que o dito Lopo d'Ameyro, que alçara a lança e que lle dera con a asta dela por lo rostro e por las narises e por los ollos, o qual y logo y mostrou, inchado as narises e os ollos, ante os ditos juises

     And the mentioned Lopo de Amoeiro, having not accepted this truce and thence breaking it, he [sic, it refers to another Lopo] said that yesterday, 18th of this month and year, in the circumscription of the parish of Codeiro, and without the mentioned Lopo Rodríguez having caused any harm to that Lopo de Amoeiro, that he came close to him to kill him, and he told him some dishonest and injurious words, and that he and his three men put their spears in his chest, for killing him; and that this Lopo de Amoeiro rose his spear and stroke with the shaft on his nose and eyes, what he then shew, his swollen nose and eyes, before said judges

   Synonyms: cabo, mango

3. stem

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “asta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “aste” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hasta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “hasta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “hasta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay hasta, from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /has.ta/
• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Noun

hasta

1. forearm, hand
2. cubit, the length of the forearm

Coordinate terms

• depa
• jengkal
• kaki

Derived terms

• menghasta
• sehasta

Compounds

• hasta karya

Further reading

• “hasta”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

hasta (spear)

Etymology

Disputed. Michiel de Vaan suggests a possible Proto-Italic form Proto-Italic *hastā-. It is also conjectured to be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰasto- or *ǵʰasdʰo- (“branch ~ spear, sharp spine”) (see below for Indo-European cognates), but the phonetics are problematic. Likely of ultimately non-Indo-European substrate origin.

Cognates include Irish gad (“withe”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃 (gazds, “spine, aculeus”) and Old Norse gaddr (“spear, goad”) (loaned into English as gad); the Celtic and Germanic forms point to a PIE pre-form *ǵʰasdʰo-. A relationship with Sanskrit हस्त (hasta, “hand”) (see hir) is unlikely. A relationship with Albanian heshtë, ushtë and shtijë (all meaning “spear”) is uncertain.

Also compared to Umbrian hostatu (acc.pl.m.), hostatir (dat.pl.m), of unknown meaning, but the root vowel /o/ does not match the Latin /a/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhas.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.ta]

Noun

hasta f (genitive hastae); first declension

1. a spear, lance, pike, carried by soldiers and used for thrusting

   Petere aliquem hastā. ― To attack someone with a spear.

   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 12.593–595:

     Victumne putāstī / Thēsea, dīre Creōn? Adsum, nec sanguine fessum / crēde; sitit meritōs etiamnum haec hasta cruōrēs.

     Did you think Theseus is defeated, cruel Creon? I am here, and do not believe I'm tired of blood, even my spear is still thirsty for righteous slaughter.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hasta	hastae
genitive	hastae	hastārum
dative	hastae	hastīs
accusative	hastam	hastās
ablative	hastā	hastīs
vocative	hasta	hastae

Derived terms

• hastārius
• hastātus
• hastīle
• hastula

Descendants

• Asturian: asta
• Catalan: ast
• Corsican: asta
• Friulian: aste
• Galician: hasta
• Italian: asta
• Lombard: asta
• Old French: haste
• Piedmontese: asta
• Portuguese: hasta, haste
• Spanish: asta

See also

• pīlum
• sparus

Further reading

• “hasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hasta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hasta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to use javelins at a distance, swords at close quarters: eminus hastis, comminus gladiis uti
    
  • the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
    
• “hasta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hasta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “hasta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “hasta”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /has.ta/
• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Noun

hasta (Jawi spelling هستا, plural hasta-hasta or hasta²)

1. cubit, unit of measurement from elbow to fingertip

References

• Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, page 78
• Pijnappel, Jan (1875), “هست hasta”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 144
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901), “هست hasta”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 686
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932), “hasta”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 401

Further reading

• "hasta" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• haste

Etymology

From Middle Low German hasten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hɑstɑ/

Verb

hasta (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative hasta/hast)

1. to hurry

   Han hastar av garde.

   He hurries away.

2. to be urgent

   Denne jobben hastar.

   this job is urgent.

Further reading

• “hasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(h)as.ta/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Homophones: asta, astā, aṣṭa
• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Noun

hasta

1. hand, (lower) arm
2. the eleventh lunar asterism
3. a linear measure

Alternative forms

• asta

Derived terms

• aṅasta
• mahasta
• sahasta

• bāmahasta
• caturhasta
• dīrghahasta
• mṛtyuhasta
• sahasrahasta
• śūnyahasta

Descendants

• Javanese: asta
• → Balinese: asta (“hand”)

Further reading

• "hasta" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin hasta, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰast- (“branch”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.tɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Noun

hasta f (plural hastas)

1. spear

   Synonyms: lança, pique

2. auction

   Synonym: leilão

Derived terms

• hasta pública

Related terms

• haste, hastear
• (spear) chuço, pilo, javalina, dardo

Further reading

• “hasta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “hasta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish fasta, and of ultimate uncertain origin. Commonly proposed etymologies are Arabic حَتَّى (ḥattā, “until”) and Latin ad ista (“to this”).

According to Coromines & Pascual (1980:323-324), fasta is first attested with certainty in the 13th century (dubiously earlier since 1074), with variants fata (att. 1098 as hata, Auto de Reyes Magos), adte (att. 1050, very rare), ata (att. ca. 1000, Glosas Emilianenses), adta (att. 945, in a Cardeña document). A(d)ta predominates in pre-literary (pre-13th century) texts, then in the 13th c. there is increasing vacillation between a predominant fata and the variant fasta until fasta becomes established in the 14th c. They propose st as dissimilation of the earlier dt in adta, attempting to render the Arabic geminate tt, and the initial f- (i.e. /ɸ ~ h/) found in various forms renders the initial Arabic /ħ/ of ḥattā. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese ata, ate (stressed as até?), atẽe, atẽes, atães; Portuguese até; Galician ata, até, atá, asta, astra; Mirandese ata; Asturian fasta, ata; Valencian dasta, hasda, handa.

Viaro (2013) proposes a derivation of fasta from Latin faciem + Latin intrā, after these reduced to faz + t(r)a, cf. Spanish hacia, pointing out Old Spanish adtor became azor instead of *astor. Meanwhile, the mostly pre-13th century a(d)ta would be from Latin ad + intrā, cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese atra and ata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasta/ [ˈas.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: has‧ta
• Homophone: asta

Adverb

hasta

1. even

   Synonyms: incluso, aun

   Hasta yo me enteré del asunto.

   Even I heard about the matter.

Preposition

hasta

1. until
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2. up to, to the point of, as much as

Derived terms

• armarse hasta los dientes
• estar hasta la verga
• hasta ahí podríamos llegar
• hasta ahora
• hasta decir basta
• hasta después
• hasta donde sé
• hasta el apuntador
• hasta el carné de identidad
• hasta el cuello
• hasta el culo
• hasta el gato
• hasta el momento
• hasta el rabo, todo es toro
• hasta el tobillo
• hasta el tope
• hasta el tuétano
• hasta el último cuadrante
• hasta el valle de Josafat
• hasta en la sopa
• hasta la bander
• hasta la bola
• hasta la fecha
• hasta la madre
• hasta la médula
• hasta la muerte
• hasta la náusea
• hasta la pared de enfrente
• hasta la próxima
• hasta la saciedad
• hasta la verga
• hasta la vista
• hasta las cachas
• hasta las cejas
• hasta las piedras
• hasta las trancas
• hasta los cojones
• hasta los gatos
• hasta los hígados
• hasta los huesos
• hasta los ojos
• hasta los tequeteques
• hasta los topes
• hasta los tuétanos
• hasta luego
• hasta lueguín
• hasta mañana
• hasta más no poder
• hasta más ver
• hasta no más
• hasta nuevo aviso
• hasta nunca
• hasta perderse de vista
• hasta pronto
• hasta que
• hasta siempre
• hasta tal punto que
• hasta tanto
• hasta tanto que

Descendants

• → Asturian: hasta, fasta^?
• → Central Bikol: hasta

Further reading

• “hasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Arabic Influences in Various Languages

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German hasten.

Verb

hasta (present hastar, preterite hastade, supine hastat, imperative hasta)

1. hurry, rush; to move (or act) quickly, and possibly cutting corners to finish quickly

Conjugation

Conjugation of hasta (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	hasta		—
supine	hastat		—
imperative	hasta		—
imper. plural1	hasten		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	hastar	hastade	—	—
ind. plural1	hasta	hastade	—	—
subjunctive2	haste	hastade	—	—
present participle		hastande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Synonyms

• jäkta

Related terms

• framhasta
• förhastad
• hast

Anagrams

• hatas

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خسته (hasta), from Old Anatolian Turkish خسته (ḫeste), from Persian خسته (xaste).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hasˈta/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: has‧ta

Adjective

hasta

1. ill, sick

   Synonyms: sayrı, sökel, alil, pestil

2. sick, wicked, perverted

   hasta düşünceler ― sick ideas

Declension

Predicative forms of hasta

present tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I am)	hastayım	hasta mıyım?
sen (you are)	hastasın	hasta mısın?
o (he/she/it is)	hasta / hastadır	hasta mı?
biz (we are)	hastayız	hasta mıyız?
siz (you are)	hastasınız	hasta mısınız?
onlar (they are)	hasta(lar)	hasta(lar) mı?
past tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	hastaydım	hasta mıydım?
sen (you were)	hastaydın	hasta mıydın?
o (he/she/it was)	hastaydı	hasta mıydı?
biz (we were)	hastaydık	hasta mıydık?
siz (you were)	hastaydınız	hasta mıydınız?
onlar (they were)	hastaydılar	hasta mıydılar?
indirect past
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	hastaymışım	hasta mıymışım?
sen (you were)	hastaymışsın	hasta mıymışsın?
o (he/she/it was)	hastaymış	hasta mıymış?
biz (we were)	hastaymışız	hasta mıymışız?
siz (you were)	hastaymışsınız	hasta mıymışsınız?
onlar (they were)	hastaymışlar	hasta mıymışlar?
conditional
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (if I)	hastaysam	hasta mıysam?
sen (if you)	hastaysan	hasta mıysan?
o (if he/she/it)	hastaysa	hasta mıysa?
biz (if we)	hastaysak	hasta mıysak?
siz (if you)	hastaysanız	hasta mıysanız?
onlar (if they)	hastaysalar	hasta mıysalar?

For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.

Noun

hasta (definite accusative hastayı, plural hastalar)

1. patient, sufferer
2. (figurative) fanatic

   köpek hastası ― dog fanatic

3. (informal) a mad, crazy person

Declension

Declension of hasta

singular plural nominative hasta hastalar definite accusative hastayı hastaları dative hastaya hastalara locative hastada hastalarda ablative hastadan hastalardan genitive hastanın hastaların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular hastam hastalarım 2nd singular hastan hastaların 3rd singular hastası hastaları 1st plural hastamız hastalarımız 2nd plural hastanız hastalarınız 3rd plural hastaları hastaları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular hastamı hastalarımı 2nd singular hastanı hastalarını 3rd singular hastasını hastalarını 1st plural hastamızı hastalarımızı 2nd plural hastanızı hastalarınızı 3rd plural hastalarını hastalarını dative singular plural 1st singular hastama hastalarıma 2nd singular hastana hastalarına 3rd singular hastasına hastalarına 1st plural hastamıza hastalarımıza 2nd plural hastanıza hastalarınıza 3rd plural hastalarına hastalarına locative singular plural 1st singular hastamda hastalarımda 2nd singular hastanda hastalarında 3rd singular hastasında hastalarında 1st plural hastamızda hastalarımızda 2nd plural hastanızda hastalarınızda 3rd plural hastalarında hastalarında ablative singular plural 1st singular hastamdan hastalarımdan 2nd singular hastandan hastalarından 3rd singular hastasından hastalarından 1st plural hastamızdan hastalarımızdan 2nd plural hastanızdan hastalarınızdan 3rd plural hastalarından hastalarından genitive singular plural 1st singular hastamın hastalarımın 2nd singular hastanın hastalarının 3rd singular hastasının hastalarının 1st plural hastamızın hastalarımızın 2nd plural hastanızın hastalarınızın 3rd plural hastalarının hastalarının Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular hastayım hastalarım 2nd singular hastasın hastalarsın 3rd singular hasta hastadır hastalar hastalardır 1st plural hastayız hastalarız 2nd plural hastasınız hastalarsınız 3rd plural hastalar hastalardır

Derived terms

• akıl hastası
• hasta bakıcı
• hasta bezi
• hasta etmek
• hastaca
• hastalanmak
• hastalık
• hastamsı
• hastaya döşek sorulmaz
• pijamalı hasta Yağız şoföre çabucak güvendi
• ruh hastası

Related terms

• hastane

Further reading

• “hasta”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “hasta”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hasta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük