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هستي — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

hastí
Pronunciation:Standard: /hastí/
Noun (Feminine)plural: هستيېOrigin: Persian → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

هستي (hastí) is a Pashto n-f meaning “wealth; property” in English او په اردو کې د «مال، دولت، رقم» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form هستيې, and 8 verified thesaurus relations.

Meanings4

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
wealth; property
مال، دولت، رقم
Example in context:

فلاهی په هستۍ که نیستمن دی

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2
wealth, riches; existence, being[general_modern]
Example in context:

هستی کوی مستی، نیستی کوی سستی

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3
living being
علاقہ، معاش، ہستی
Example in context:

د انسان هستی د الله تعالی په لاس کې ده.

“Human existence is in the hands of God.”

انسان کی ہستی اللہ تعالیٰ کے ہاتھ میں ہے۔

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4
[Classical] Existence, entity, world[classical]
Page 1060 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Persian
Example in context:

د انسان هستی د الله تعالی په لاس کې ده.

“Human existence is in the hands of God.”

انسان کی ہستی اللہ تعالیٰ کے ہاتھ میں ہے۔

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Proverbs (Mataloona)2 unique

ولسي متلونه
ولسي متل (Proverb)· 3 variants grouped

«هستى کوى مستى ، نيستى کوى سستى ۔»

“Wealth brings arrogance, while poverty brings laziness.”

دولت سے مستی آئے اور خواری سے بے کاری ۔

Cultural context: A cautionary saying about how surplus wealth can cause moral corruption, while extreme hardship can dishearten a person.
Show all 3 historical variants▼
  • • هستی کوی مستی، نیستی کوی سستی.
  • • هستی کوی، مستی، نیستی، کوی سستی،
  • • هستی کوی مستی، نیستی کوی سستی
ولسي متل (Proverb)· 1 variant grouped

«فلاهی په هستۍ که نیستمن دي»

“So-and-so is poor despite having wealth.”

فلاں شخص مال و دولت کے ہوتے ہوئے بھی محتاج و کنگال ہے۔

Cultural context: Highlights the miserly nature of a wealthy person who lives like a beggar because they refuse to spend or share.
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  • • فلاهی په هستۍ که نیستمن دی

Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms(مترادفات او متضادات)

Semantic lexical relations verified from Achakzai Pashto Thesaurus & corpus data

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
Dir Plural (-e)
هستيېhastí-e
Obl Plural (-o)
هستيوhastí-o

Examples from corpora8

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

Attested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.

OALD Master Corpus

فلاهی په هستۍ که نیستمن دی

OALD Master Corpus

هستی کوی مستی، نیستی کوی سستی

PashDict Unified Lexicon

د انسان هستی د الله تعالی په لاس کې ده.

“Human existence is in the hands of God.”

انسان کی ہستی اللہ تعالیٰ کے ہاتھ میں ہے۔

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
کتل ▼

Persian

Persian (Raverty 1860)

PashDict Sovereign 34-to-1 Unified LexiconVerified Trilingual Academic Edition · CC BY 4.0

Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword هستي (hastí) functions as a n-f in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition

Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه