asta

From Persian آهسته‎.

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asta

1. quietly
2. slow, slowly
3. carefully, gently, cautiously

• yavaş, yavaşca

asta (comparative daha asta, superlative ən asta)

1. quiet
2. slow

• “asta” in Obastan.com.

asta

1. Romanization of ᬅᬲ᭄ᬢ (“be”).
2. Romanization of ᬅᬲ᭄ᬣ (“bone”).
3. Romanization of ᬅᬱ᭄ᬝ (“eight”).
4. Romanization of ᬳᬲ᭄ᬢ (“hand”).

From Latin hasta.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈas.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ta/

asta f (plural astes)

1. shaft (of a spear)
2. spear

   Synonym: llança

3. flagpole

• “asta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

asta (emphatic astasan)

1. Alternative form of astu

Inherited from Latin hasta, of disputed further origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.sta/
• Rhymes: -asta
• Hyphenation: à‧sta

asta f (plural aste)

1. pole, rod, shaft
2. (chiefly poetic) spear, lance

   Synonym: lancia

3. the wooden handle of a spear or lance
4. (athletics) the pole used in pole-vaulting
5. penis

   Synonym: pene

6. (zoology) the main structure of a cervid's antlers

   Synonym: (uncommon) stanga

7. (firearms) forearm (part of a firearm below and supporting the barrel)
8. (ophthalmology) temple (sidepiece of spectacles)

   Synonym: stanghetta

9. (uncommon) the ink chamber of a pen

   Synonym: asticciola

10. the graduated arm of a steelyard balance along which the counterweight slides
11. a short, straight line
    1. (typography) the vertical part of a letter

       Hyponyms: asta inferiore, asta superiore

12. auction

• asta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Carakan: ꦲꦱ꧀ꦠ
• Roman: asto (nonstandard)

asta (krama ngoko tangan, krama inggil asta)

1. (anatomy) Krama inggil of tangan.

• “[ asta]” in Bausastra Jawa, Yogyakarta: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Yogyakarta].

asta (Latin spelling)

1. until, till
   • 1979 July, Moshe Shaul, “Istoria i Dezvelopamiento del Djudeo-Espaniol”, in Aki Yerushalayim‎, page 11:

     La primera de eyas es ke el djudeo-espaniol kontiene un grande numero de arkaizmos o sea, palavras ke eran empleadas en Espania asta el siglo XV ma ke dezparesieron dezde entonses de su vokabulario, mientres ke en el djudeo-espaniol kontinuan a existir asta oy.

     The first of them is that Judeo-Spanish contains a large number of archaisms, or rather, words that were used in Spain until the 15th century but which disappeared after then from its vocabulary, while in Judeo-Spanish they continue to be used until this day.

astā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of astō

• “asta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “asta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “asta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “asta”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

• astă

From Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /astə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /astə/
• Rhymes: -tə, -ə

asta (Jawi spelling استا‎)

1. eight

• lapan / delapan / dĕlapan / لاڤن‎ / دلاڤن‎
• selapan / sĕlapan / سلاڤن‎

From astă, from Latin ista(m), feminine of iste.

• IPA^(key): [ˈas.ta]

asta

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăsta

   Synonym: această

asta

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăsta

   Synonym: aceasta

From Middle Irish asta. Cognate with Irish astu and Manx assdaue.

• IPA^(key): /ˈas̪t̪ə/
• Hyphenation: as‧ta

asta

1. third-person plural of à: from them

• Colin Mark (2003), “à”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 2

Borrowed from German Ast.

asta f

1. branch

From Latin hasta. Compare Italian asta (“pole, rod”), Catalan ast (“spit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈasta/ [ˈas.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: as‧ta
• Homophone: hasta

asta f (plural astas)

1. flagstaff, flagpole

   a media asta ― at half mast

2. horn (a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals)

   Synonyms: cuerno, cacho

3. shaft, handle

   Synonyms: barra, palo

4. lance; pike

   Synonyms: lanza, pica

• The feminine noun asta is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el asta

un asta

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

• astifino
• a media asta

• astilla
• astillero
• astado
• dios astado
• astero

• “asta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Hyphenation: as‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ʔasˈtaʔ/, [ʔɐsˈtaʔ]

astâ

1. posture; carriage; pose; bearing

   Synonyms: tindig, tayo, tikas, bikas

2. act or manner of acting

   Synonyms: kilos, pagkilos

3. position or attitude taken when one is about to do something

Borrowed from Spanish hasta.

• hasta

• Hyphenation: as‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔasta/, [ˈʔas.tɐ]

asta

1. even; also (usually as asta sa)