بستی

See also: پشتی

Urdu

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसति (vasati).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bəs.t̪iː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: بَس‧تی
  • Homophone: بسطی (bast̤ī)

Noun

بَسْتی • (bastī) f (Hindi spelling बस्ती)

  1. settlement, small village
  2. colony
  3. (figuratively) liveliness, bustlingness
  4. (biology) Eukaryota (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Declension
Declension of بستی
singular plural
direct بستی (bastī) بستیاں (bastiyā̃)
oblique بستی (bastī) بستیوں (bastiyō̃)
vocative بستی (bastī) بستیو (bastiyō)

Further reading
  • “بستی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “بستی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بستی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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