# gasta
## Catalan
### Verb

gasta
* inflection of gastar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Verb

gasta
* inflection of gastar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* gasda (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle Irish gasta. By surface analysis, gas (“sprig, shoot”) +‎ -ta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡasˠt̪ˠə/

### Adjective

gasta
* fast; quick, rapid
    Synonyms: mear, tapa
* quick, clever

#### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
* Alternative comparative degree: gaiste

#### Derived terms

* gastacht f (“quickness”)
* gastaire m (“clever person”)
* gastóg f (“quick retort; clever girl”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ “gasta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gasta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 380, page 128

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gasta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gasta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “gasta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɑːs.tɑ/

### Noun

gāsta
* genitive plural of gāst

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡas.tɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡas.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈɡaʃ.tɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡas.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡaʃ.tɐ/

### Etymology 1
#### Participle

gasta
* feminine singular of gasto

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gasta
* inflection of gastar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Scottish Gaelic
### Alternative forms

* gasda (superseded)

### Etymology

From Middle Irish gasta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkas̪t̪ə/

### Adjective

gasta
* excellent, good
    A bheil thu gu gasta? ― Are you quite well?
* handsome, beautiful, well-shaped, comely, fine
    a bhean ghasta ― his beautiful wife
    nì gasta ― a fine thing
    is gast' am balach thu ― you are a fine fellow
    duine gasta ― a handsome man
* clever, expert, ingenious, skilful
    duine gasta ― a wise and skilful man or a religious man
* generous, open-handed
* chaste
* gallant, brave
** 17th c., traditional, Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda:Alasdair Mhic, hò hò, Cholla ghasta, hò hò Às do làimh-sa, hò hò, dh'earbainn tapachd, trom eileAlasdair son of, hò hò, gallant Coll, hò hò From your hand, hò hò, I'd expect valour, trom eile
* neat

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “gasta”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡasta/ [ˈɡas.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -asta
* Syllabification: gas‧ta

### Verb

gasta
* inflection of gastar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swedish
### Verb

gasta (present gastar, preterite gastade, supine gastat, imperative gasta)
* to shout, to bawl (shout noisily)

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

### References

* gasta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* gasta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* gasta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* agats, gatas, tagas

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gastar.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ɡasˈta/ [ɡɐsˈt̪a]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: gas‧ta

### Noun

gastá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔ᜆ)
* spending of money
    Synonyms: gugol, gastos, paggugol, paggastos

#### Derived terms

* gastahan
* gastahin
* gumasta
* magasta
* maggagasta
* magpakagasta
* pagastahan
* pagastahin
* paggasta
* pagkagastahan
* pagpapakagasta
* pinagkakagastahan

#### Related terms

* gastador
* gastadora

### Anagrams

* sagat, tagas, gatas