basti

• bustee

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

• IPA^(key): /bʌstiː/

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.

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

basti

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

basti

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

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

basti

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

basti

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bas.ti/

basti

1. to build; to construct

   Il a basti deux måjhons.

   He built two houses.