wasta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa)

Noun

wasta (plural wastas)

1. (Arab society, often italicized) Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood
   • 2025 June 15, Syed Rashid Husain, “'Wasta' at US Embassy”, in Arab News‎^[1]:

     The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta, one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.

Synonyms

• connections, nepotism, cronyism

See also

• wasta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tawas

Balinese

Romanization

wasta

1. Romanization of ᬯᬲ᭄ᬢ

Javanese

Romanization

wasta

1. Romanization of ꦮꦱ꧀ꦠ

Old Javanese

Noun

wasta

1. Alternative spelling of wastha (“title, name”)

Sundanese

Sundanese register set
lemes	{{{le}}}
lemes ka sorangan	wasta, nami
lemes ka batur	kakasih, jenengan
loma	ngaran
cohag	{{{co}}}

Etymology

From Old Javanese wasta, wastha (“title, name”), wasthā, awasthā (“state, condition; circumstance, fate; course”), from Sanskrit अवस्था (avasthā, “condition, state”).

Noun

wasta (Sundanese script ᮝᮞ᮪ᮒ)

1. (lemes) name

   Tepangkeun, wasta sim kuring James ― Let me introduce myself, my name is James