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Wasta vs Hasta - What's the difference?

wasta | hasta |

As nouns the difference between wasta and hasta

is that wasta is intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood while hasta is a hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song.

As a verb hasta is

third-person singular of hafta: has to; is required to.

As an interjection hasta is

goodbye.

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")

    hasta

    English

    Etymology 1

    Written form of a of "has to".

    Verb

    (head)
  • (colloquial) (hafta): has to; is required to.
    • He hasta visit the doctor.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Interjection

    (head)
  • (colloquial) goodbye

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 21, Joe Fiorito, Tamil dance fine gesture even for our crop of snow, Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around. }}

    See also

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