# abastar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From bastar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.βəsˈta]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.bəsˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.basˈtaɾ]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastí, past participle abastat)
* to reach (to obtain by stretching the hand)
* to manage
* to supply; provide

#### Derived terms

* abast
* abastable
* abastament

### Further reading

* “abastar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “abastar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “abastar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “abastar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abastar, from a- +‎ bastar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aβasˈtaɾ]

### Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastei, past participle abastado)
* to suffice
** c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 100:
    Casandra era de tal feytura nẽ era moy grãde nẽ moy pequena, mays en tal grado que moy bẽ lle abastauaCassandra's build was such that he was not very big nor very small, but in such a way that it really fits her
    Synonyms: abondar, chegar
* to reach
** c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 57:ẽna çidade façamos hũa torre tam alta que abaste et atãga ata o çeoLet's build in this city a tower so high that it reaches and attains the sky
    Synonyms: abranguer, atanguer
* to furnish
    Synonym: fornecer

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* abastado
* abastamento
* abastante
* abastanza
* abasto

#### Related terms

* abastar
* abastecer
* bastar
* bastida

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “abastar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “abast”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abastar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “abastar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abastar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Ladino
### Verb

abastar (Latin spelling)
* to suffice, be enough

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abastar. By surface analysis, a- +‎ basto +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.basˈta(ʁ)/ [a.basˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.basˈta(ʁ)/ [a.basˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.basˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.baʃˈta(ʁ)/ [a.baʃˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.basˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.bɐʃˈtaɾ/ [ɐ.βɐʃˈtaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.bɐʃˈtaɾ/ [ɐ.βɐʃˈtaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.bɐʃˈta.ɾi/ [ɐ.βɐʃˈta.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: a‧bas‧tar

### Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastei, past participle abastado)
* to supply
* to suffice, be enough

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* abastança

### Further reading

* “abastar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From a- +‎ bastar, from Vulgar Latin *bastō, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō). Compare Italian bastare, Portuguese bastar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abasˈtaɾ/ [a.β̞asˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: a‧bas‧tar

### Verb

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abasté, past participle abastado)
* (transitive) to supply
    Synonym: abastecer

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* abastamiento

#### Related terms

* abastecer
* bastar

### Further reading

* “abastar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10