chusta

See also: chustą

Polish

Etymology

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Medieval Latin fustaneumder.

Italian fustagnobor.

Byzantine Greek φουστάνιν (phoustánin)

Greek φουστάνι (foustáni)

Greek φούστα (foústa)bor.

Romanian fustăbor.

Ukrainian хвуста (xvusta)bor.

Polish chusta

Borrowed from Ukrainian хвуста (xvusta), borrowed from Romanian fustă.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈxus.ta/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈxus.tɘ]

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• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: chus‧ta

Noun

chusta f (diminutive chustka, augmentative (dialectal) chuścisko)

1. headscarf
2. (Przemyśl, in the plural) whites; clothing

   Bede chusty prała. ― I will be washing the laundry.

   Zabrał se chusty i poszed. ― He took the whites and left.

Declension

Declension of chusta

	singular	plural
nominative	chusta	chusty
genitive	chusty	chust
dative	chuście	chustom
accusative	chustę	chusty
instrumental	chustą	chustami
locative	chuście	chustach
vocative	chusto	chusty

Derived terms

noun

• chusta animacyjna

Related terms

noun

• chusteczka

Further reading

• “chusta”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “chusta”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Aleksander Saloni (1908), “chusty”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎^[3] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 333

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃusta/ [ˈt͡ʃus.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: chus‧ta

Noun

chusta f (plural chustas)

1. piece of crap
2. (colloquial) fag butt