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Wast vs Wasta - What's the difference?

wast | wasta |

As a verb wast

is second-person singular past of lang=en.

As a noun wasta is

intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood.

wast

English

Verb

  • (archaic)
  • * 1600 , William Shakespeare, As You Like It , Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),
    • "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."
  • * 1611 , The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version , (first & last usages),
    • Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
    Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast , and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
  • * 1850 , , The Blessed Damozel , lines 97-99
    • Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!
    Yea, one wast thou with me
    That once of old.

    References

    * *

    See also

    * am * are * is * art * be * being * been * beest * was * were * wert * vast

    Anagrams

    * English irregular simple past forms English auxiliary verb forms ----

    wasta

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Arab society, often, italicized) Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood
  • * {{quote-news, 2003, 15 June, Syed Rashid Husain, 'Wasta' at US Embassy, Arab News citation
    • , passage=The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta , one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.}}

    Synonyms

    * connections, nepotism

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wasta")