уста

From Proto-Slavic *usta.

• IPA^(key): [oˈsta]

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уста́ • (ustá) f

1. (also figurative) mouth
2. (collective) lips

• “уста”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “уста”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

From Proto-Slavic *usta.

• IPA^(key): [usˈta]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ус‧та

уста́ • (ustá) n pl

1. mouth

• Kercha, Ihor (2012) Словник русько-русинськый: у 2 т. [Russian-Rusyn Dictionary: in 2 vols] (overall work in Russian and Carpathian Rusyn), Uzhhorod: PoliPrint

• IPA^(key): [ˈusta]

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta.

уста • (usta) f (plural усти, relational adjective устен, diminutive усте or устичка)

1. mouth

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوسته (Turkish usta), from Persian استاد (ostâd).

уста • (usta) m

1. (archaic, poetic) master, mason

From Proto-Slavic *usta. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic оуста (usta) and Old Polish usta.

• Hyphenation: у‧ста

уста (usta) n (plural only)

1. mouth
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 2:

     не рече оустꙑ тъчью иꙁгл҃аахъ·

     ne reče usty tŭčĭju izgl:aaxŭ·

     He didn't say: I just pronounced [them] with [my] mouth;

• Old Ruthenian: уста (usta)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: уста́ (ustá)
  • Ukrainian: вуста́ (vustá), уста́ (ustá)
• Russian: уста́ (ustá)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙋста”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1273

Inherited from Old Slovak usta, from Proto-Slavic *usta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈusta]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Hyphenation: уста

уста (usta) n pl (related adjective усни)

1. (anatomy) mouth
2. jaw

   Synonym: писки (piski)

   Near-synonym: видлїца (vidljica)

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “уста”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “mouth”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 184

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”). Cognates include Sanskrit आस् (ās, “mouth”) and Latin ōs (“mouth”). Compare Polish usta.

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈsta]

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уста́ • (ustá) n inan pl (genitive уст, plural only)

1. (archaic or poetic) mouth, lips

   Synonyms: (mouth) рот (rot), (lips) гу́бы (gúby)

   • 1873, Николай Лесков [Nikolai Leskov], “Глава тринадцатая”, in Очарованный странник, Санкт-Петербург: Русский мир; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Enchanted Wanderer, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:

     Кому́ она́ пода́ст стака́н, тот сейча́с вино́ вы́пьет и на подно́с, ско́лько чу́вствует усе́рдия, де́нег ме́чет, зо́лото и́ли ассигна́ции; а она́ его́ тогда́ в уста́ поцелу́ет и покло́нится.

     Komú oná podást stakán, tot sejčás vinó výpʹjet i na podnós, skólʹko čúvstvujet usérdija, déneg méčet, zóloto íli assignácii; a oná jevó togdá v ustá pocelújet i poklónitsja.

     Whoever she offered a glass to drank the wine at once and flung money on the tray, gold or banknotes, as much as his zeal prompted him to; and she would then kiss him on the lips and bow to him.

• у́стный (ústnyj)
• у́стье (ústʹje)
• наизу́сть (naizústʹ)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *usta.

• IPA^(key): /ǔːsta/
• Hyphenation: у‧ста

у́ста n pl (Latin spelling ústa)

1. (plural only) mouth

• “уста”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Turkic, ultimately from Persian استاد. Compare Azerbaijani usta.

уста • (usta)

1. master

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈsta]

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уста́ • (ustá) n inan pl (genitive уст, plural only)

1. alternative form of вуста́ (vustá)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “уста”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “уста”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

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уста • (usta)

1. (geometry, general) length (spatial)

   сыһыы устата ― sıhıı ustata ― the length of the field

   суол устата ― suol ustata ― the length of the road

2. length (temporal), duration

   сыл устата ― sıl ustata ― the length of the year

• устата (ustata, “during, throughout”)