rasta

Short for Rastafarian or Rastafari.

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• Rhymes: -æstə

rasta (plural rastas)

1. (informal) Rastafarian
2. (informal) Diminutive of rastaquouère

• rasta hat

• rasta roko

• STAAR, astar, atars, ratas

English rasta

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑstɑ/, [ˈrɑ̝s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑstɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ras‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): ras‧ta

rasta

1. rasta, Rastafarian (person)
2. dreadlock (single strand of dreadlocks)

• (rasta): rastafari

• “rasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• ratas, sarat, stara

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rasta m or f by sense (plural rastas)

1. rasta; Rastafarian

• “rasta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

rasta

1. romanization of 𐍂𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰

From rastafariano. First attested in 1951.

rasta m or f by sense (uncountable)

1. rasta; Rastafarian

rasta m or f (masculine plural rasti, feminine plural raste)

1. of or relating to Rastafarians

rasta

1. inflection of rasts:
   1. genitive singular masculine
   2. nominative singular feminine

From Proto-West Germanic *rastu, see also Old English ræst, Old Norse rǫst.

rasta f

1. rest

• German: Rast

• grasta

From Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “belly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾast̪a/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sta

rasta f (plural rasti)

1. flower pot.

Borrowed from English; shortened from Rastafarian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrasta/ [ˈras.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: ras‧ta

rasta m or f (masculine and feminine plural rastas)

1. rasta

rasta m or f by sense (plural rastas)

1. rasta, Rastafarian
2. dreadlocks (a hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings)

• “rasta”, 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

Borrowed from English rasta.

rasta class IX (plural rasta class X)

1. dreadlock

rast +‎ -a

rasta (present rastar, preterite rastade, supine rastat, imperative rasta)

1. to stop and take a rest (while traveling)

   Vi rastade på en rastplats

   We stopped and took a rest at a rest area

2. to take (a dog or other animal) outside for exercise (letting it run around freely) and urination/defecation

   rasta hunden

   take the dog outside

3. to let or bring prisoners, institutionalized patients, or the like outside (onto a yard or the like, for fresh air, exercise, etc.)

   rasta fångarna

   let the prisoners out onto the prison yard

"Walk the dog" is "gå ut med hunden."

• rastgård
• rastplats

• rastning

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

• rasat, trasa