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بستی

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See also: پشتی

Urdu

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Middle Hindi بستی (bsty) (c. 1657),[1] semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसति (vasati).[2][3][4]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    بَسْتی (bastīf (Hindi spelling बस्ती)

    1. settlement
    2. colony
    3. a village; small town
    4. (figuratively) liveliness, bustlingness
      Synonym: رَونَق (raunaq)
    5. (biology) Eukaryota (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

    Declension

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        Declension of بستی
    singular plural
    direct بستی (bastī) بستِیاں (bastiyā̃)
    oblique بستی (bastī) بستِیوں (bastiyō̃)
    vocative بستی (bastī) بستِیو (bastiyō)

    References

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    1. ^ بستی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
    2. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “بستي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 155
    3. ^ S. W. Fallon (1879) “بستی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
    4. ^ John Shakespear (1834) “بستی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

    Further reading

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