abastar

From bastar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.bəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.basˈtaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastí, past participle abastat)

1. to reach (to obtain by stretching the hand)
2. to manage
3. to supply; provide

• “abastar”, 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
• “abastar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “abastar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “abastar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese abastar, from a- +‎ bastar.

• IPA^(key): [aβasˈtaɾ]

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastei, past participle abastado)

1. to suffice
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 100:

     Casandra era de tal feytura nẽ era moy grãde nẽ moy pequena, mays en tal grado que moy bẽ lle abastaua

     Cassandra's build was such that he was not very big nor very small, but in such a way that it really fits her

   Synonyms: abondar, chegar

2. to reach
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 57:

     ẽna çidade façamos hũa torre tam alta que abaste et atãga ata o çeo

     Let's build in this city a tower so high that it reaches and attains the sky

   Synonyms: abranguer, atanguer

3. to furnish

   Synonym: fornecer

• abastado
• abastamento
• abastante
• abastanza
• abasto

• abastar
• abastecer
• bastar
• bastida

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “abastar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “abast”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abastar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “abastar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abastar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

abastar

1. to suffice, be enough

From Old Galician-Portuguese abastar. By surface analysis, a- +‎ basto +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: a‧bas‧tar

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abastei, past participle abastado)

1. to supply
2. to suffice, be enough

• abastança

• “abastar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From a- +‎ bastar, from Vulgar Latin *bastō, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō). Compare Italian bastare, Portuguese bastar.

• IPA^(key): /abasˈtaɾ/ [a.β̞asˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧bas‧tar

abastar (first-person singular present abasto, first-person singular preterite abasté, past participle abastado)

1. (transitive) to supply

   Synonym: abastecer

• “abastar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024