musta

Written form of a reduction of must have.

musta

1. (colloquial) Contraction of must have.

   He musta guessed. There's no other explanation.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     I ran out the kitchen and down the narrow hallway. I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived. I'd never been invited up there but I had a colorful picture in my little head about how grand it musta been.

Reflecting pronunciation, used when have is an auxiliary rather than main verb.

• must’ve

• coulda
• hadda
• shoulda
• woulda
• mighta
• oughta

• Ma Tsu, Ma-tsu, Mat-Su, Matsu, Maust, sumat

• 'musta

Clipping of kumusta.

• Hyphenation: mus‧ta
• IPA^(key): /musˈta/, [mʊs̪ˈt̪a]

mustá (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. hello
2. how are you?
3. used to ask about the status of someone or something

musta

1. with

musta

1. genitive singular of must
2. partitive singular of must
3. illative singular of must

musta

1. genitive singular of must
2. partitive singular of must
3. illative singular of must

• IPA^(key): /ˈmustɑ/, [ˈmus̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ustɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mus‧ta

From Proto-Finnic *musta.

musta (comparative mustempi, superlative mustin)

1. black (colour)
2. black (person)

• (antonym(s) of “colour”): valkoinen

musta

1. black (colour)
2. black (person)
3. black horse

• (person): neekeri (pejorative, considered racist), mustaihoinen (neutral)

• (antonym(s) of “colour”): valkoinen
• (antonym(s) of “person”): valkoihoinen

• “musta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

A variant for minusta.

musta

1. (colloquial, personal) elative singular of mä (minä)

• minusta

• masut, musat, sumat

From Proto-Finnic *musta. Cognates include Finnish musta and Estonian must.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmustɑ/, [ˈmus̠t]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmustɑ/, [ˈmuʃtɑ]
• Rhymes: -ust, -ustɑ
• Hyphenation: mus‧ta

musta

1. black

musta (comparative mustemp)

1. black
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Kynnetyn maan päält möö näemmä mustaa, tali harmaata maan päälyst.

     On the ploughed land we see the black, or grey surface of the earth.

• valkia (“white”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 321

musta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mustum

• musta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• (Courland) mustā

From Proto-Finnic *musta.

musta

1. black

• mustu

From Proto-Finnic *musta.

musta

1. black

musta

1. black

Compare Classical Nahuatl mōztla (“tomorrow”)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːsta/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /ˈmusta/

mūsta

1. tomorrow

   Musta ka peyna tiawit talmukwepat nikan

   Tomorrow in the morning we are going to come back here

• wīpta (“day after tomorrow”)
• āshān (“today”)
• yālua (“yesterday”)

• IPA^(key): /musˈta/, [mʊsˈta]
• Hyphenation: mus‧ta

mustá (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ) (informal)

1. Clipping of kumusta.