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Clipping of English Asturian or Asturian asturianu.

ast

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Asturian.

ast

  1. Pronunciation spelling of asked, simple past and past participle of ask.
    • 1988 October 21, Bryan Miller, “Strangers in a Train Station”, in Chicago Reader[2]:

      I just ast her.

From Latin hasta (spear, lance).

ast m (plural asts or astos)

  1. spit, skewer

    pollastre a l'ast

    chicken on the skewer
  • “ast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle High German ast, from Old High German ast.

ast m (plural éste)

  1. (Sette Comuni) conifer branch

    Dar ast ist guuts holtz so prönnan.

    Conifer branches make excellent firewood.
  • “ast” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Spatial inflection of ast
→○ illative asse
inessive as
○→ elative ast

Derived from astua in a manner similar to Finnish asti. Later analyzed as containing the elative ending.

ast (+ illative or allative)

  1. (of time) up to, until
  2. (of distance or motion) all the way to

ast (+ elative or ablative)

  1. (of time) ever since
  2. (of distance or motion) all the way from
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 22
Perso-Arabic اَست

Cognate with Turkish ast.

  • (Talxâbî) IPA(key): [ɒsd̥], [ɑsd̥]

ast

  1. under, below
    Synonym: asra

ast (definite accusative astı, plural astlar)

  1. under, bottom
  2. underside
    Synonyms: alt, asra

Probably a univerbation of at +‎ est with subsequent contraction.

ast

  1. (law, protasis) but if, and if (in double stipulations)
    Synonyms: sīn autem, porrō
  2. (literary, often followed by a vowel) but, however, whereas
    1. while, and
    Synonyms: at, sed
  3. (literary) and then, forthwith, whereupon (followed immediately by a subject switch, normally a personal pronoun)
  • ast” on page 209 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ast”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
  • ast”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ast”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

ast

  1. Salaca form of astõ (to step)

The sense to climb does not appear to be attested in Salaca Livonian.

From Central Kurdish ئاست (ast).

ast m or f (Arabic spelling ئاست)

  1. level (degree or amount)
  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “ast”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 15

From Proto-West Germanic *ast.

ast m

  1. branch

From Proto-West Germanic *ast.

ast m

  1. branch
  • Middle Low German: ast

Borrowed from Old Norse ást, from Proto-Germanic *anstiz.

ast

  1. (obsolete) love
    Synonym: kärlek