pista

See also: Pišta, pistä, Pista, and писта

English

Noun

pista (plural pistas)

1. (South Asia) pistachio
   • 2020, Neon Yang, ‎Saad Z. Hossain, ‎Zen Cho, Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora

     "What kind of criminal salts pistas?" Gurung asked, incensed.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpis.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

pista f (plural pistes)

1. track, trail, lead
2. clue
3. runway
4. route, path, track, footpath
5. (sports) track, court

   pista de tennis ― tennis court

6. (music) track

   pista bonus ― bonus track

Derived terms

• despistar

Further reading

• “pista”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish fiesta, from Late Latin festa < Latin festa, plural of festum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

Noun

pista

1. feast day
2. feast or banquet associated with such festival
   • 2011 — Pareja, Gerard, Happy Fiesta, Mandaue; Good-bye, Lakers (10 May), Salins Hulbot, Opinion, Cebu Daily News

     Buot unta nakong itandi ang dinuwaan ni Derek Fisher sa Los Angeles Lakers sa kinabuhi ni Senyor San Jose nga maoy patron sa dakbayan sa Mandaue nga gasaulog sa ilang pista.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Verb

pista

1. to celebrate such festival
2. to prepare a feast for such festival
3. to attend such festival or feast

Derived terms

• mamistahay

Anagrams

• ispat, patis, pisat, sipat, tapis, tipas

Estonian

Verb

pista

1. Da-infinitive of pistma.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pis.ta/
• Homophones: pistas, pistât

Verb

pista

1. third-person singular past historic of pister

Anagrams

• pâtis, tapis

Italian

Etymology

Variant of pesta (“footprint”), technical senses influenced by French piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis.ta/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: pì‧sta

Noun

pista f (plural piste)

1. track, trail, scent, clue

   il poliziotto seguiva la pista dei complici del sospettato

   the police officer was following the trail of the suspect's accomplices

2. (sports) track, racetrack, racecourse, course, rink

   Synonyms: circuito, tracciato

   pista di Formula uno ― Formula One racetrack

3. (skiing) ski run, ski slope, piste, trail

   pista da sci ― ski slope

4. track (sound stored on a record, cassette, etc.)
5. (aviation) runway
6. (slang) line (of cocaine)

Interjection

pista

1. make way

Related terms

• depistare
• pesta
• pista da ballo
• pistard

Descendants

• → French: piste (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• pista on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• pasti, spati, stipa

Latin

Participle

pista

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

Participle

pistā

1. ablative feminine singular of pistus

References

• "pista", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʃ.tɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

Noun

pista f (plural pistas)

1. track; road; path
   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     A escrava passara naturalmente em herança a qualquer dos filhos do morto; mas, por estes, nada havia que recear: dois pândegos de marca maior que, empolgada a legítima, cuidariam de tudo, menos de atirar-se na pista de uma crioula a quem não viam de muitos anos àquela parte.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   1. lane (division of roadway)

      Synonym: faixa

   2. racetrack (course over which any type of race is run)
   3. clipping of pista de pouso (runway)
   4. clipping of pista de dança (dancefloor)
2. footprints

   Synonyms: pegadas, rastro

3. clue (information that may lead one to a certain point or conclusion)

   Synonym: indício

Derived

• pista de rolamento

Further reading

• “pista”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pista”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pîsta/
• Hyphenation: pis‧ta

Noun

pȉsta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ста)

1. runway (for airplanes)

Declension

Declension of pista

	singular	plural
nominative	pȉsta	piste
genitive	piste	pȋstā / pȋstī
dative	pisti	pistama
accusative	pistu	piste
vocative	pisto	piste
locative	pisti	pistama
instrumental	pistom	pistama

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pista. Compare English piston and piste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpista/ [ˈpis.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: pis‧ta

Noun

pista f (plural pistas)

1. track, course, trail
2. (music) track (song)
3. (aviation) runway
4. (bowling) lane
5. (sports, Spain) court (field on which tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, etc is played)

   Synonym: (Latin America) cancha

   pista de baloncesto ― basketball court

6. clue, fingerprint

   Synonym: indicio

Derived terms

• autopista
• ciclismo en pista
• despistar
• pista de aterrizaje
• pista de baile
• pista de despegue
• pista de hielo
• pista de rodaje
• pista de tenis
• pista rápida

Further reading

• “pista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Early borrowing from Spanish fiesta. Compare Malay pesta. Doublet of piyesta, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pisˈta/ [pɪsˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pis‧ta

Noun

pistá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. feast day; festival; festivity

   Synonym: pagdiriwang

   Ika-16 ng Enero ang pista ng Santo Niño. ― The feast of the Santo Niño is at January 16.

2. feast or banquet associated with a feast day

   Synonyms: piyesta, piging, handa

3. (obsolete) feast kept outside of a Sunday or a patron holiday [16th–17th c.]

Alternative forms

• piyasta — obsolete

Derived terms

• ipagpista
• kapistahan
• magpista
• makipamista
• mamimista
• mamista
• pagpistahan
• pamista
• Pista ng Tatlong Hari
• pista-opisyal

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pisˈtaʔ/ [pɪsˈt̪aʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pis‧ta

Noun

pistâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. act of undervaluing or underrating, in a mean manner, the merits of someone or something; faultfinding; belittlement

   Synonyms: pintas, puna, pula, pagmamaliit

Derived terms

• ipista
• magpista
• pagpista
• pamimista
• pamista
• pistaan
• pumista

See also

• ulupista

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish pista (“track; course”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pisˈtaʔ/ [pɪsˈt̪aʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pis‧ta

Noun

pistâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. lane

   Synonym: daan

References

• “pista”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Rosalio Serrano (1854), Diccionario de terminos comunes tagalo-castellano‎^[1] (in Spanish), page 110
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[2] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[3] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 320: “Fieſta) Piſta ([pc]) C. que ſe guarda fuera del domingo ola fieſta del patron”
  • page 417: “Menos preciar) Piſta (pc) C. teniẽdo [a otro] en poco”

Anagrams

• patis, sipat, pitas, sapit, tapis

Waigali

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pisˈta/

Adjective

pista (Nisheigram)

1. salty