Wasta vs Wanta - What's the difference?
wasta | wanta |
(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
, 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.}}
As a noun wasta
is intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood.As a contraction wanta is
eye dialect of want to|lang=en.wasta
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Noun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* connections, nepotismSee also
* (wikipedia "wasta")wanta
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Alternative forms
* wannaContraction
(en-cont)- 1937 , , Their Eyes Were Watching God , Harper Perennial (2000), page 163:
- “We don’t wanta . Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”