basti

See also: bastí, bastì, and băști

English

Alternative forms

• bustee

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बस्ती (bastī, “settlement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌstiː/

Noun

basti (plural bastis)

1. (India) A slum.
   • 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The City Of Dreadful Night:

     There is a dreary bustee in the neighbourhood which is said to make the most of any cholera that may be going.

   • 2012, Sarwant Singh, New Mega Trends: Implications for Our Future Lives, page 63:

     With the population growth in the jhopadpattis, favelas, bastis and bidonvilles higher than any other environment in the world, we are seeing the emergence of Megaslums, where one million urban poor live in an area measuring just 1.5 square miles.

   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 294:

     Her mother-in-law, in her half-delirious state, was sure that their basti would be broken down and had aggressively begun to push her sons to buy a plot of land elsewhere.

Anagrams

• tabis, batis, IBATs, absit, Sabit, biast, Bista, Staib, baits

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbas.ti]

Verb

basti

1. inflection of bastar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Galician

Verb

basti

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of bastir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.sti/
• Rhymes: -asti
• Hyphenation: bà‧sti

Verb

basti

1. inflection of bastare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

basti

1. inflection of bastir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Walloon

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bastir, from Vulgar Latin *bastīre (“to build; sew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bas.ti/

Verb

basti

1. to build; to construct

   Il a basti deux måjhons.

   He built two houses.

Conjugation

   —         —   Conjugation of the verb basti in Walloon   —   Codjowaedje do viebe basti e walon

infinitive			basti
gerund			bastixhant
auxiliary			aveur
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		basti		basteye
		plural		bastis		basteyes
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		dji (dj')	ti (t')	i (il) / ele	dji (dj') / nos	vos	i (il)
	present	basti or bastixh	bastis or bastixhs	bastit or bastixh	bastixhans	bastixhoz	bastixhnut or bastixhèt
	imperfect	bastixheu	bastixheus	bastixheut	bastixhéns	bastixhîz	bastixhént
	preterit	bastixha	bastixhas	bastixha	bastixhîs	bastixhîz	bastixhît
	future	bastirè or bastixhrè	bastirès or bastixhrès	bastirè or bastixhrè	bastirans or bastixhrans	bastiroz or bastixhroz	bastiront or bastixhront
	conditional	bastireu	bastireus	bastireut	bastiréns	bastirîz	bastirént
subjunctive		ki dj'	ki t'	k' i (il) / k' ele	ki dj' / ki nos	ki vos	k' i (il)
	present	bastixhe	bastixhes	bastixhe	bastixhanxhe	bastixhoxhe	bastixhnuxhe or bastixhèxhe
	imperfect	bastixhaxhe	bastixhaxhes	bastixhaxhe	bastixhénxhe	bastixhîxhe	bastixhénxhe
imperative		—	ti	—	dji / nos	vos	—
	affirmative		basti or bastixh		bastixhans	bastixhoz