kasta

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese casta (“lineage, breed”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkasta]

kasta f (relational adjective kastovní)

1. caste

• “kasta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną. Cognate with Icelandic and Swedish kasta, Norwegian and Danish kaste, and English cast.

• IPA^(key): /kʰasta/

kasta (third person singular past indicative kastaði, third person plural past indicative kastað, supine kastað)

1. to throw

   Synonyms: blaka, tveita

kasta

1. inflection of kastaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• kasat, sakat, takas, taksa

From Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną. Cognate with Faroese and Swedish kasta, Norwegian and Danish kaste, and English cast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰasta/
• Rhymes: -asta

kasta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kastaði, supine kastað)

1. to throw, to fling, to hurl, to toss [intransitive or with dative]

   Synonyms: varpa, fleygja, henda

   Kastaðu boltanum hingað!

   Toss the ball here!

   Að kasta sér í sjóinn.

   To hurl oneself into the ocean.

2. (baseball) to pitch [with dative ‘something’]
3. (basketball) to shoot [with dative ‘something’]
4. (equestrianism) to foal; to give birth to, to bear [with dative ‘offspring’]

• kast

• verpa

kasta

1. indefinite genitive plural of kast

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kasta

1. indefinite genitive plural of köstur

• skata, taska

From Portuguese casta, possibly from the feminine of casto (“chaste”), from Old Galician-Portuguese casto, from Latin castus) or from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (*kastan) or *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), *kastuz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkast̪a]
• Hyphenation: kas‧ta

kasta (plural kasta-kasta)

1. caste: a separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other, especially hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies

• “kasta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from German Kasten.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ta/
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: kas‧ta

kasta m inan (diminutive kastka)

1. chest

   Synonyms: czista, skrzënia

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “skrzynia”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “skrzynia”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• “kasta”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• kastene (of noun)
• kastet (of verb)

kasta n

1. definite plural of kast

kasta

1. inflection of kaste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• kaste

From Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną.

• IPA^(key): /²kɑstɑ/

kasta (present tense kastar, past tense kasta, past participle kasta, passive infinitive kastast, present participle kastande, imperative kasta/kast)

1. to throw

   Kor langt kan du kasta denne?

   How far can you throw this one?

• “kasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *kastōną.

kasta

1. to cast, to throw [with dative]

• kasta um (“to throw about, turn around (something)”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kasta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną.

kasta

1. to throw, cast

• Swedish: kasta

• kasta in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L

Internationalism; compare English caste, French caste, German Kaste, ultimately from Portuguese casta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.ta/

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• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: kas‧ta

kasta f (related adjective kastowy)

1. (Hinduism) caste (any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies)
2. caste (separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other)
3. (zoology) caste (class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony)

• kasta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kasta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• kasta in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese casta (“lineage, breed”).

kȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ста)

1. caste

From Old Swedish kasta, from Old Norse kasta, from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk kasta, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål kaste and English cast.

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kasta (present kastar, preterite kastade, supine kastat, imperative kasta)

1. to throw (make an object fly through the air)

   Han kastade ett spjut

   He threw a spear

   1. to roll (a die)

      Hon kastade tärningen

      She rolled the dice [die] [not figurative]

2. to throw away, discard, dispose of

   Han kastade prylen han inte längre använde

   He threw away the thing he no longer used

3. (reflexive) to throw oneself

   Han kastade sig till marken

   He threw himself to the ground

4. to cast (a shadow)

   Träden kastade långa skuggor

   The trees cast long shadows

5. (card games) to discard, slough

   Han kastade kortet

   He discarded the card

• slänga (bit less powerful- and more sloppy-sounding)

• kasta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kasta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kasta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• aktas, askat, kasat, sakat, sakta, skata

From Middle High German kaste, from Old High German kasto. Cognate with German Kasten.

kasta m (diminutive kastła)

1. chest (strong box)

kasta

1. beauty