ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hasta

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈhæs.tə/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Hasta is a verb meaning (colloquial) third-person singular simple present indicative of hafta: Contraction of has to (“is required to”).

Meaning

(colloquial) third-person singular simple present indicative of hafta: Contraction of has to (“is required to”).

More Meanings

  1. (colloquial) goodbye
  2. (Indian classical dance) A hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song
  3. A spear carried by early Roman legionaries.

Example Sentences

He hasta visit the doctor.
A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around.
In the 12th century in Persia and later in Anatolia a new style of monumental kufic becomes the rule, with the tall hastae of the letters plaited.
In Table I the hastae of n and m are regularly vertical and of the same height, while in II a and II b they vary in height and are often out of the perpendicular.

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Related dictionary entries include until, upto, mudra, ahata, jati, kolattam.

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