सस्ता

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See also: सुस्त and सुस्ती

Hindi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unclear.[1] Cognate to Punjabi ਸਸਤਾ (sastā), Nepali सस्तो (sasto), Gujarati સસ્તું (sastũ), Sindhi سَستو (sasto), Bengali সস্তা (śosta), Odia ଶସ୍ତା (śôsta), Assamese সস্তা (xosta), Sylheti ꠢꠍꠔꠣ (hosta), and the hypercorrected Marathi स्वस्त (svasta) (earlier सस्त (sasta)).

The preservation of the cluster -st- universally rules out Sanskrit inheritance; most Indo-Aryan languages would have assimilated that to -tt-. Given the widespread distribution of the term, it would have been an early borrowing or a borrowing from an influential language.

Several theories have been put forward:

  1. An assimilation of Classical Persian سست (sust, “languid, lazy; loose”), making it a doublet of सुस्त (sust).
  2. Inherited from Sanskrit स्वस्थ (svastha, “healthy”).[2][3] This is unlikely due to the regular simplification of consonant clusters in Middle Indo-Aryan; compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀢𑁆𑀣 (sattha), which would theoretically yield Hindi *साथा (sāthā) or *सत्था (satthā).
  3. The likely wrong suggestion of inheritance from Sanskrit समर्घ (samargha, “having a low price”).[4] This already yielded Hindi सहँगा (sahaṅgā, “cheap”), which is not very common now. The only redeeming quality of this suggestion is that offers a direct contrast to Hindi महंगा (mahaṅgā, “expensive”), from Sanskrit महार्घ (mahārgha, “having a high price”). Compare Old Marathi सवंग (savaṃga), Gujarati સોંઘું (soṅghũ).[5]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /səs.t̪ɑː/, [sɐs.t̪äː]

Adjective[edit]

सस्ता • (sastā) (Urdu spelling سستا)

  1. cheap, inexpensive
    Antonym: महंगा (mahaṅgā)
    स्थानीय प्रकाशक की छपी हुई पुस्तकें सस्ती होतीं हैं।
    sthānīya prakāśak kī chapī huī pustakẽ sastī hotī̃ ha͠i.
    The books printed by the local publisher are inexpensive.

Declension[edit]

Declension of सस्ता (ā-stem)
masculine feminine
singular plural singular plural
direct सस्ता
sastā 		सस्ते
saste 		सस्ती
sastī 		सस्ती
sastī
oblique सस्ते
saste 		सस्ते
saste 		सस्ती
sastī 		सस्ती
sastī
vocative सस्ते
saste 		सस्ते
saste 		सस्ती
sastī 		सस्ती
sastī

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सस्ता”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  2. ^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “सस्ता”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
  3. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “सस्ता”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  4. ^ The template Template:R:Fallon does not use the parameter(s): 
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  5. ^ Tulpule, Shankar Gopal; Feldhaus, Anne, “सवंग”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 1999.

Further reading[edit]

  • Bahri, Hardev (1989) “सस्ता”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “سستا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
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