بستی

See also: پشتی

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéseti

Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwásati

Sanskrit वसति (vasati)slbor.

Urdu بَسْتی (bastī)

Inherited from Middle Hindi بستی (bsty) (c. 1657),^[1] semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसति (vasati).^[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəs.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: بَس‧تی
• Homophone: بسطی (bast̤ī)

Noun

بَسْتی • (bastī) f (Hindi spelling बस्ती)

1. settlement
2. colony
3. a village; small town
4. (figuratively) liveliness, bustlingness

   Synonym: رَونَق (raunaq)

5. (biology) Eukaryota (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Declension

Declension of بستی
	singular	plural
direct	بستی (bastī)	بستِیاں (bastiyā̃)
oblique	بستی (bastī)	بستِیوں (bastiyō̃)
vocative	بستی (bastī)	بستِیو (bastiyō)

References

1. “بستی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
2. Platts, John T. (1884) “بستي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 155
3. S. W. Fallon (1879) “بستی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
4. John Shakespear (1834) “بستی”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Further reading

More information

• “بستی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بستی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vásati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 667