vasta

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbas.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvas.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvas.ta]

vasta

1. feminine singular of vast

From Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa).

• Hyphenation: vas‧ta

vasta

1. means, method, mediation

• “vasta”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Borrowed from Latin vastus, English vast and French vaste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvasta/

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• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: vas‧ta

vasta (accusative singular vastan, plural vastaj, accusative plural vastajn)

1. extensive, vast, spacious

   Antonym: malvasta

• malvasta
• vastigi

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑstɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑstɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vas‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): vas‧ta

< vasta- (“counter-; just, recently, freshly”)

vasta

1. Expressing delay or that something takes place later; not ... until, only, but

   Antonym: jo

   Hänen piti tulla tänään, mutta hän tuleekin vasta ylihuomenna.

   He was expected today, but he does not come until the day after tomorrow.

   Ota ensin asioista selvää, ja puhu vasta sitten!

   First find out the facts and speak only thereafter!

2. Expressing that something happened only recently; newly, freshly, just

   Synonyms: juuri, (colloquial) just, justiin, justiinsa

   Antonym: jo

   vasta leivottu ― freshly baked

   vasta äsken ― just a while ago

3. Expressing disappointment or frustration in a task; only

   Synonym: vain

   Antonyms: jo, jopa

   Hän oli tässä kilpailussa vasta kolmantena.

   He was only third in this race.

   Olen edennyt vasta vähän kaikista ponnisteluistani huolimatta.

   Despite all my effort I have made only a little progress until now.

   Olemme kävelleet vasta kymmenen kilometriä ja olen jo aivan uupunut.

   We have walked only ten kilometers and I am already completely exhausted.

   Ja nyt vasta hän huomaa kertoa jotain noin tärkeää...

   Now he thinks to tell me something so important...

• “2. vasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from Old East Slavic хвостъ (xvostŭ), or alternatively borrowed from North Germanic (compare Swedish kvast). Related to Ingrian vasta, Karelian vašta, Ludian vast and Veps vast.

vasta

1. bath broom, a kind of whip made of birch twigs and used in the sauna to enhance the effect of heat by gently beating oneself with it.

   Synonyms: vihta, saunavasta, saunavihta

See usage notes under vihta.

• sauna
• löyly

• “1. vasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• vasat, vatsa

Borrowed from Esperanto vasta, English vast, French vaste, Italian vasto, Spanish vasto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvasta/

vasta

1. vast, extensive

   Synonyms: granda, larja, spacoza

   Antonyms: mikra, streta

From Old East Slavic хвостъ (xvostŭ, “tail”), from Proto-Slavic *xvostъ. Cognates include Finnish vasta and Veps vast.

Alternatively, borrowed from a Germanic language, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwastuz (“tassel”). Compare Swedish kvast.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑstɑ/, [ˈʋɑs̠t]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑstɑ/, [ˈʋɑʃtɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑst, -ɑstɑ
• Hyphenation: vas‧ta
• Homophone: vast

vasta

1. bath broom (whip made of birch twigs and used in saunas to enhance the effect of heat)

• (chiefly Ala-Laukaa) vihta

• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 645

• IPA^(key): /ˈvas.ta/
• Rhymes: -asta
• Hyphenation: và‧sta

vasta

1. feminine singular of vasto

• stava

• vāsta:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas.ta]
• vāstā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs.taː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas.ta]

vāsta

1. inflection of vāstus:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

vāstā

1. feminine ablative singular of vāstus

vasta

1. feminine singular of vasto

vasta

1. inflection of vastar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbasta/ [ˈbas.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: vas‧ta

vasta

1. feminine singular of vasto