استا

See also: أستأ and استأ

Malay

Numeral

استا

1. Jawi spelling of asta and astă.‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian اوستا (ustâ).

Proper noun

استا • (usta)

1. A master or mistress

(of any art, craft, trick, trade, or profession); the master, mistress, owner (of a business)

1. A passed workman or workwoman, a proficient,

one who has finished his or her apprenticeship, and works as an adept at his or her art, craft, trick, or trade, iu the service of a master or mistress

1. A master or mistress (of any liberal art)
2. A master or mistress, teacher, professor (of an art or trick or science)
3. A master or mistress (of any domestic or civil service), whether a chief, foreman or

forewoman, or ordinary competent worker, not an apprentice or improver

1. A director, manager, overseer (of some businesses)
2. A good workwoman, a mistress of her profession or duties (among women); a head female servant or slave (of any department in a great man's house-hold); a lady superintendent of a department (in the private establishments of the great)
3. A captain (of the old Janissaries)

1. (Zoroastrianism) Avesta, Zend-Avesta

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “استا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 86