# asta
## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Persian آهسته.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

asta
* quietly
* slow, slowly
* carefully, gently, cautiously

#### Synonyms

* yavaş, yavaşca

### Adjective

asta (comparative daha asta, superlative ən asta)
* quiet
* slow

### Further reading

* “asta” in Obastan.com.

## Balinese
### Romanization

asta
* Romanization of ᬅᬲ᭄ᬢ (“be”).
* Romanization of ᬅᬲ᭄ᬣ (“bone”).
* Romanization of ᬅᬱ᭄ᬝ (“eight”).
* Romanization of ᬳᬲ᭄ᬢ (“hand”).

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin hasta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈas.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈas.ta]

### Noun

asta f (plural astes)
* shaft (of a spear)
* spear
    Synonym: llança
* flagpole

### Further reading

* “asta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Irish
### Pronoun

asta (emphatic astasan)
* Alternative form of astu

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin hasta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.sta/
* Rhymes: -asta
* Hyphenation: à‧sta

### Noun

asta f (plural aste)
* pole, rod, shaft
* (chiefly poetic) spear, lance
    Synonym: lancia
* the wooden handle of a spear or lance
* (athletics) the pole used in pole-vaulting
* penis
    Synonym: pene
* (zoology) the main structure of a cervid's antlers
    Synonym: (uncommon) stanga
* (firearms) forearm (part of a firearm below and supporting the barrel)
* (ophthalmology) temple (sidepiece of spectacles)
    Synonym: stanghetta
* (uncommon) the ink chamber of a pen
    Synonym: asticciola
* the graduated arm of a steelyard balance along which the counterweight slides
* a short, straight line
** (typography) the vertical part of a letter
    Hyponyms: asta inferiore, asta superiore
* auction

#### Derived terms

* asta inferiore
* asta regia
* asta superiore
* asticciola
* asticina
* inastare

### Further reading

* asta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Javanese
### Romanization

asta
* Romanization of ꦲꦱ꧀ꦠ

## Ladino
### Preposition

asta
* until, till
** 1979 July, Moshe Shaul, “Istoria i Dezvelopamiento del Djudeo-Espaniol”, in Aki Yerushalayim‎, archived from the original on 3 December 2020, page 11:La primera de eyas es ke el djudeo-espaniol kontiene un grande numero de arkaizmos o sea, palavras ke eran empleadas en Espania asta el siglo XV ma ke dezparesieron dezde entonses de su vokabulario, mientres ke en el djudeo-espaniol kontinuan a existir asta oy.The first of them is that Judeo-Spanish contains a large number of archaisms, or rather, words that were used in Spain until the 15th century but which disappeared after then from its vocabulary, while in Judeo-Spanish they continue to be used until this day.

## Latin
### Verb

astā
* second-person singular present active imperative of astō

### References

* “asta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "asta", 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)
* “asta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “asta”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “asta”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* astă

### Etymology

From Sanskrit अष्ट (aṣṭa), from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

### Pronunciation

* (Johor-Selangor) IPA: /astə/
* (Riau-Lingga) IPA: /astə/
* Rhymes: -tə, -ə

### Numeral

asta (Jawi spelling استا)
* eight

#### Synonyms

* lapan / delapan / dĕlapan / لاڤن / دلاڤن
* selapan / sĕlapan / سلاڤن

## Old Javanese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /as.ta/
* Rhymes: -ta
* Homophones: astā, aṣṭa, hasta
* Hyphenation: as‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit अस्त (asta, “sunset”).

#### Noun

asta
* sunset

##### Derived terms

* astagiri

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

asta
* Alternative spelling of hasta

### Further reading

* "asta" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Romanian
### Etymology

From astă, from Latin ista(m), feminine of iste.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈas.ta]
* Audio:(file)

### Determiner

asta
* nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăsta
    Synonym: această

### Pronoun

asta
* nominative/accusative feminine singular of ăsta
    Synonym: aceasta

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish asta. Cognate with Irish astu and Manx assdaue.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈas̪t̪ə/
* (Lewis) IPA: /ˈas̪t̪(ə)/
* (Barra) IPA: [ˈas̪t̪ʌ]
* Hyphenation: as‧ta

### Pronoun

asta
* third-person plural of à: from them

#### Inflection
### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Colin Mark (2003) “à”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 2

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Ast.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈas.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -asta
* Syllabification: as‧ta

### Noun

asta f (diminutive astka)
* branch

### Further reading

* asta in silling.org
* Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “asta”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 26

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin hasta. Compare Italian asta (“pole, rod”), Catalan ast (“spit”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈasta/ [ˈas.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -asta
* Syllabification: as‧ta
* Homophone: hasta

### Noun

asta f (plural astas)
* flagstaff, flagpole
    a media asta ― at half staff
* horn (a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals)
    Synonyms: cuerno, cacho
* shaft, handle
    Synonyms: barra, palo
* lance; pike
    Synonyms: lanza, pica

#### Usage notes

* Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like asta take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el asta. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al asta, del asta.
    These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un asta or una asta. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).
    However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor asta, una buena asta.
* If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el asta única, un(a) asta buena.
* In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

#### Derived terms

* a media asta
* astifino
* tomar el toro por las astas

#### Related terms

* astado
* astero
* astilla
* astillero
* dios astado

### Further reading

* “asta”, 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

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔasˈtaʔ/ [ʔɐsˈt̪aʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: as‧ta

#### Noun

astâ (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ᜔ᜆ)
* posture; carriage; pose; bearing
    Synonyms: tindig, tayo, tikas, bikas
* act or manner of acting
    Synonyms: kilos, pagkilos
* position or attitude taken when one is about to do something

##### Derived terms

* astaan
* pagkakaasta
* umasta

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish hasta.

#### Alternative forms

* hasta

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔasta/ [ˈʔas.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -asta
* Syllabification: as‧ta

#### Adverb

asta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ᜔ᜆ)
* even; also (usually as asta sa)

### Anagrams

* atas, saat, tsaa, tasa, taas

## Yilan Creole
### Etymology

From Japanese 明日 (ashita, “tomorrow”).

### Noun

asta
* tomorrow

### References

* 真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015) “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎