pasta

See also: pastá, pastā, pastă, pastą, and påstå

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta, “barley porridge”), neuter plural from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”). Doublet of paste and patty.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: păsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpæstə/
Audio (RP) (file)
(General American) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑstə/
(Canada) enPR: păsʹtə, päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpæstə/, /ˈpɑstə/
(General Australian) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːstə/
(New Zealand) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːstɘ/
Rhymes: -ɑːstə, -æstə
Homophone: pastor (Australia, New Zealand)

Noun

pasta (countable and uncountable, plural pastas)

(uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
(uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
(countable) A type of pasta.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pasta.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:pasta

Related terms

paste

Descendants

→ Cebuano: pasta
→ Indonesian: pasta
→ Hindi: पास्ता (pāstā)
→ Marathi: पास्ता (pāstā)
→ Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)
→ Welsh: pasta

Translations

dough

Arabic:
Algerian Arabic: ماقرونة‎
Hijazi Arabic: مَكَرُونَة‎ f (makarōna)
Moroccan Arabic: مقرونية‎ f (maqarūniyya)
Catalan: pasta (ca) f
Cebuano: pasta
Chinese:
Cantonese: 意大利粉 (Ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ fan²), 意粉 (Ji³ fan²) (abbreviation)
Mandarin: 意大利麵／意大利面 (zh) (Yìdàlì miàn)
Czech: těstoviny (cs) f pl
Danish: pasta (da) c
Dutch: deegwaren (nl) f pl
Esperanto: pasto (eo)
Faroese: pasta f
Finnish: pasta (fi)
French: pâtes (fr) f pl, pâtes alimentaires (fr) f pl
German: Nudeln (de) f pl; (formal, specialist) Teigwaren (de) f pl; (commercial sometimes) Pasta (de) f
Greek: ζυμαρικά (el) n pl (zymariká)
Ancient: κολλύρα f (kollúra)
Hindi: पास्ता (pāstā)
Hungarian: tészta (hu)
Icelandic: pasta n
Irish: pasta m
Italian: pasta (it) f, impasto (it) m
Japanese: パスタ (pasuta)
Korean: 파스타 (ko) (paseuta)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: meqarne
Latin: collȳra f, pasta f (Late)
Lithuanian: makaronas m, makaronai m pl
Macedonian: тестенина f (testenina)
Marathi: पास्ता m (pāstā)
Mòcheno: pasta f
Norman: pâtes f pl (Jersey)
Norwegian: pasta (no)
Persian: پاستا‎ (pâsta)
Polish: makaron (pl) m
Portuguese: massa (pt) f, (Brazil) macarrão (pt) m
Romanian: paste făinoase (ro) f pl
Russian: макаро́ны (ru) pl (makaróny), макаро́нные изде́лия n pl (makarónnyje izdélija), (slang) па́ста (ru) f (pásta) (considered non-standard and has other meanings)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: testenìna f
Slovak: cestovina f
Spanish: pasta (es) f
Swedish: pasta (sv) c
Tagalog: pasta
Tamil: மாச்சேவை (māccēvai)
Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)
Turkish: makarna (tr)
Ukrainian: макаронні ви́роби ? (makaronni výroby)
Welsh: pasta (cy) m

dish or serving

Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: مقرونية‎ f (maqarūniyya)
Finnish: pastaruoka (dish); pasta-annos (serving)
German: Nudeln (de) f pl; Nudelgericht (de) n
Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)

type of pasta

Chinese:
Mandarin: 意大利面 (zh) (yì dà lì miàn)
Finnish: pastalaji
Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)

Anagrams

ataps, patas, tapas

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/

Noun

pasta f (plural pastes)

paste, putty
pulp (for papermaking)
dough
pasta (dough made from wheat and water)
(colloquial) money, dough

Derived terms

empastar
empastifar
pasta d'ebenista
pasta de dents
pasta de te
pasta fullada
pastar
pastetes
pastís

References

“pasta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“pasta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
“pasta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“pasta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Etymology 1

From English paste, from Middle French (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

pasta

dental filling

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pasta,borrowed from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

Noun

pasta

pasta
1. dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating
2. a dish or serving of pasta
3. a type of pasta

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

pasta f

(Luserna) pasta

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta; cf. Italian pasta, English paste.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpasta]
Audio (file)

Noun

pasta f

paste

Declension

Declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pasta	pasty
genitive	pasty	past
dative	pastě	pastám
accusative	pastu	pasty
vocative	pasto	pasty
locative	pastě	pastách
instrumental	pastou	pastami

Derived terms

zubní pasta

Danish

Etymology

From Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpasda/, [ˈpʰæsd̥æ], [ˈpʰæstæ]

Noun

pasta c (singular definite pastaen, plural indefinite pastaer)

pasta (food)
paste

Declension

Declension of pasta

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pasta	pastaen	pastaer	pastaerne
genitive	pastas	pastaens	pastaers	pastaernes

Derived terms

fuldkornspasta
pastadej
pastafabrik
pastafabrikant
pastaform
pastakogebog
pastakuvert
pastamager
pastaopskrift
pastaprodukt
pastaproduktion
pastaret
pastarør
pastasalat
pastaskrue
pastastykke
pastavare
tandpasta

References

“pasta” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɑs.taː/
Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta, “barley porridge”). Displaced paste.

Noun

pasta f (plural pasta's, diminutive pastaatje n)

paste [from late 16th c.]
- 1596, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien 1579-1592, part 2, publ. by Martinus Nijhoff (1956), page 147.
  Het eerste noemen die AEgyptenaren assis, 'twelc is poyer van kennep ofte hennep bladeren, met water tot een pasta ofte deegh ghemaect, daer af zy vijf ofte meer stucxkens eten, so groot als castanien, van 't vvelcke de ghene, die sulcks ghegheten hebben, een ure daernae niet anders worden dan of zy droncken waren, met ontsinnigheyt; worden van selfs gelijc oft zy opgetrocken waren, ende haer verschynen vremde ghesichten, daer in zy groote vermakelickheyt hebben.
  The first one the Egyptians call hashish, which is a powder of cannabis or hemp leaves, made into a paste or dough with water, of which they eat five or more pieces as big as chestnuts, from which those who have eaten such, become for an hour thereafter nothing but as if they were drunk, with senselessness; [they] become on their own as if they are in an exalted state, and strange visions appear to them, in which they have great amusement.

Derived terms

chocoladepasta
hazelnootpasta
pastavreter
tandpasta

Descendants

Afrikaans: pasta
→ Indonesian: pasta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

pasta f (plural pasta's, diminutive pastaatje n)

pasta [from mid 19th c.]
- 1866, S. J. van den Bergh, "Een Engelschman onder de roovers", De Gids, vol. 30, page 334.
  Een groot vuur brandde lustig onder een ketel gevuld met pasta, eene soort van macaroni, waarboven gansche brokken sneeuw werden gesmolten die met een overvloed van warme geitenmelk, ons tot drank verstrekten.
  A large fire burned eagerly under a cauldron filled with pasta, a type of macaroni, above which entire chunks of snow were molten that served us as a beverage [together] with an abundance of warm goat milk.

Derived terms

pastamachine
pastasalade
pastasaus
pastavorm

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpʰasta/
Rhymes: -asta

Noun

pasta f (genitive singular pastu, uncountable)

pasta

Declension

Declension of pasta (singular only)
f1s	singular
f1s	indefinite	definite
nominative	pasta	pastan
accusative	pastu	pastuna
dative	pastu	pastuni
genitive	pastu	pastunnar

Finnish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɑstɑ/, [ˈpɑs̠t̪ɑ]
Rhymes: -ɑstɑ
Syllabification^(key): pas‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta

pasta

Declension

Inflection of pasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		pasta	pastat
genitive		pastan	pastojen
partitive		pastaa	pastoja
illative		pastaan	pastoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pasta	pastat
accusative	nom.	pasta	pastat
accusative	gen.	pastan	pastat
genitive		pastan	pastojen pastain^rare
partitive		pastaa	pastoja
inessive		pastassa	pastoissa
elative		pastasta	pastoista
illative		pastaan	pastoihin
adessive		pastalla	pastoilla
ablative		pastalta	pastoilta
allative		pastalle	pastoille
essive		pastana	pastoina
translative		pastaksi	pastoiksi
instructive		—	pastoin
abessive		pastatta	pastoitta
comitative		—	pastoineen

Possessive forms of pasta (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	pastani	pastamme
2nd person	pastasi	pastanne
3rd person	pastansa

Compounds

pastakone
tuorepasta

Etymology 2

From Late Latin pasta.

Noun

pasta

paste

Declension

Inflection of pasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		pasta	pastat
genitive		pastan	pastojen
partitive		pastaa	pastoja
illative		pastaan	pastoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pasta	pastat
accusative	nom.	pasta	pastat
accusative	gen.	pastan	pastat
genitive		pastan	pastojen pastain^rare
partitive		pastaa	pastoja
inessive		pastassa	pastoissa
elative		pastasta	pastoista
illative		pastaan	pastoihin
adessive		pastalla	pastoilla
ablative		pastalta	pastoilta
allative		pastalle	pastoille
essive		pastana	pastoina
translative		pastaksi	pastoiksi
instructive		—	pastoin
abessive		pastatta	pastoitta
comitative		—	pastoineen

Possessive forms of pasta (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	pastani	pastamme
2nd person	pastasi	pastanne
3rd person	pastansa

Compounds

sinkkipasta

Anagrams

Tapsa, tapas

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century. From Latin pasta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpastɐ]

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

paste
- 1409, G. Pérez Barcala (ed.), A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 172:
  filla o vinagre ben forte e a greda alva muda et pouco de sal ben mundo, e amasa todo moi ben ata que se faça ende ũa pasta mole.
  take a strong vinegar and ground white clay and a little salt, finely ground, and mix very well everything till it becames a soft paste
pasta
dough
Synonym: masa
binding, cover of a book

Derived terms

empastar

References

“pasta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“pasta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“pasta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpʰasta/
Rhymes: -asta

Noun

pasta n (genitive singular pasta, no plural)

pasta

Declension

declension of pasta

	indefinite	definite
n-w	singular
nominative	pasta	pastað
accusative	pasta	pastað
dative	pasta	pastanu
genitive	pasta	pastans

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pasta (“pasta, paste”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastel.

The sense of pasta is loaned via Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpas.ta]
Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Noun

pasta (first-person possessive pastaku, second-person possessive pastamu, third-person possessive pastanya)

paste: a soft moist mixture.
pasta:
1. dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating; a dish or serving of pasta.
2. a type of pasta.

Derived terms

berpasta

pasta gigi

Related terms

pastel

Irish

Etymology

From English pasta, from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpˠasˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

pasta m (genitive singular pasta)

pasta

Declension

Declension of pasta

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	pasta
Vocative	a phasta
Genitive	pasta
Dative	pasta

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an pasta
Genitive	an phasta
Dative	leis an bpasta don phasta

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pasta	phasta	bpasta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpa.sta/
Rhymes: -asta
Hyphenation: pà‧sta

Noun

pasta f (plural paste)

paste
pasta, noodles
dough
cake, tart
texture

Derived terms

pasta abrasiva
pasta alimentare
pasta all'uovo
pasta asciutta
pasta brisée
pasta chimica
pasta cresciuta
pasta da carta
pasta di alluminio
pasta di fondo
pasta di legno
pasta di mandorle
pasta di paglia
pasta di stracci
pasta di vetro
pasta d'uomo
pasta dura
pasta fresca
pastafrolla
pasta frolla
pasta glutinata
pasta margherita
pasta meccanica
pasta normale
pastasciutta
pasticca

Descendants

→ Afar: bastá
→ Cimbrian: pasta
→ Danish: pasta
→ Dutch: pasta
- Afrikaans: pasta
- → Indonesian: pasta
→ English: pasta (see there for further descendants)
→ Faroese: pasta
→ Finnish: pasta
→ Greek: πάστα (pásta)
- → Romanian: pastă
→ Icelandic: pasta
→ Japanese: パスタ (pasuta)
→ Korean: 파스타 (paseuta)
→ Ladin: pasta
→ Mòcheno: pasta
→ Norwegian: pasta
→ Persian: پاستا‎ (pâsta)
→ Turkish: pasta
→ West Frisian: pasta

Anagrams

spata

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta), from παστός (pastós), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäs̠t̪ä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäst̪ä]

Noun

pasta f (genitive pastae); first declension

(Late Latin) paste

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pasta	pastae
Genitive	pastae	pastārum
Dative	pastae	pastīs
Accusative	pastam	pastās
Ablative	pastā	pastīs
Vocative	pasta	pastae

Derived terms

*pastīcius

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pasta (see there for further descendants)
- Sicilian: pasta
North Italian:
- Venetian: pasta
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: paste
  - Middle French: paste
    - French: pâte
  - → Middle English: paste
    - English: paste
      - → Cebuano: pasta
    - Scots: paste, paist
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: pasta
- Occitan: pasta
Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: pasta
- Portuguese: pasta
- Spanish: pasta

Unsorted borrowings (many or all via French/Italian):

→ Belarusian: паста (pasta)
→ Czech: pasta
→ Dutch: pasta
- Afrikaans: pasta
- → Indonesian: pasta
→ Finnish: pasta
→ German: Paste
- → Japanese: パスタ (pasuta)
→ Hungarian: paszta
→ Macedonian: паста (pasta)
→ Polish: pasta
→ Russian: паста (pasta)
→ Serbo-Croatian: pasta / паста
→ Slovak: pasta
→ Ukrainian: паста (pasta)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

pāsta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.ta/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪ä]

pāsta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäst̪ä]
pāstā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.taː/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪äː]

pāstā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäst̪ä]

Participle

pāsta

inflection of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”):
1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

pāstā

ablative feminine singular of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

References

“pasta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pasta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
pasta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1123
pasta in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1502

Latvian

Noun

pasta m

genitive singular form of pasts

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

pasta f

pasta

References

“pasta” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta m (definite singular pastaen, indefinite plural pastaer, definite plural pastaene)

pasta (usually uncountable)
paste

Derived terms

(sense 2) tannpasta

References

“pasta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta m (definite singular pastaen, indefinite plural pastaer or pastaar, definite plural pastaene or pastaane)

pasta (usually uncountable)
paste

Derived terms

(sense 2) tannpasta

References

“pasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -asta
Syllabification: pas‧ta

Noun

pasta f

A soft mixture, paste

Declension

Declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pasta	pasty
genitive	pasty	past
dative	paście	pastom
accusative	pastę	pasty
instrumental	pastą	pastami
locative	paście	pastach
vocative	pasto	pasty

Derived terms

pasta do butów
pasta do zębów
pasta kanapkowa
pasta ścierna
pasta termoprzewodząca

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʃ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʃ.tɐ/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

(cooking) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)
Synonym: massa
paste
Eu gosto de escovar os dentes com essa pasta de dente. ― I like to brush my teeth with this toothpaste.
folder (organizer)
(computing) folder (container of computer files)
Synonym: diretório
briefcase (case used for carrying documents)
Synonym: maleta
(politics) ministry; portfolio (responsibilities of a government department)

Derived terms

pasta dentífrica, pasta dos dentes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pasta

inflection of pastar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Sardinian

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

paste
pasta
dough

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pâsta/
Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Noun

pȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling па̏ста)

paste, polish
pasta za zube ― toothpaste
pasta za cipele ― shoe polish

Declension

Declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pȁsta	paste
genitive	paste	pȃstā / pȃstī
dative	pasti	pastama
accusative	pastu	paste
vocative	pasto	paste
locative	pasti	pastama
instrumental	pastom	pastama

Derived terms

pasta za zube
pasta za cipele

Sicilian

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/, [ˈpaʃta]
Hyphenation: pàs‧ta

Noun

pasta f

pasta
dough

Derived terms

pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
sculapasta

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta; cf. Italian pasta, English paste.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpasta]

Noun

pasta f (genitive singular pasty, nominative plural pasty, genitive plural pást, declension pattern of žena)

paste

Declension

Declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pasta	pasty
genitive	pasty	pást
dative	paste	pastám
accusative	pastu	pasty
locative	paste	pastách
instrumental	pastou	pastami

Derived terms

pastička
pastový

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.t̪a]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -asta
Syllabification: pas‧ta

Etymology 1

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

pasta
paste, dough
biscuit
(Spain, slang) money, dough
- 2006, Irvine Welsh, Federico Corriente Basús transl., Porno, Anagrama (→ISBN)
  No está tan engreído como de costumbre; parece bien jodido. «No lo entiendo, Spud. Pensé que me quedaba mucha pasta para las vacaciones; tenía previsto llevarme a mi hija por ahí. […]»
(slang) Short for pasta de cocaína (“cocaine paste”).
Short for pasta de dientes (“toothpaste”).

Derived terms

pasta base
pasta de dientes
pasta de papel
pasta de té (“tea-cake”)
pasta para untar (“spread”) (culinary)

Related terms

pastar
pasto
pastor

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pasta

inflection of pastar:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پاسته‎ (pasta, “pasta”), borrowed from Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɑ.stɑ/

Noun

pasta (definite accusative pastayı, plural pastalar)

(cooking) cake
Doğum günü pastası çok güzeldi. ― The birthday cake was very nice.

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

pasta

Definite accusative

pastayı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

pasta

pastalar

Definite accusative

pastayı

pastaları

Dative

pastaya

pastalara

Locative

pastada

pastalarda

Ablative

pastadan

pastalardan

Genitive

pastanın

pastaların

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	pastam	pastalarım
2nd singular	pastan	pastaların
3rd singular	pastası	pastaları
1st plural	pastamız	pastalarımız
2nd plural	pastanız	pastalarınız
3rd plural	pastaları	pastaları
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	pastamı	pastalarımı
2nd singular	pastanı	pastalarını
3rd singular	pastasını	pastalarını
1st plural	pastamızı	pastalarımızı
2nd plural	pastanızı	pastalarınızı
3rd plural	pastalarını	pastalarını
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	pastama	pastalarıma
2nd singular	pastana	pastalarına
3rd singular	pastasına	pastalarına
1st plural	pastamıza	pastalarımıza
2nd plural	pastanıza	pastalarınıza
3rd plural	pastalarına	pastalarına
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	pastamda	pastalarımda
2nd singular	pastanda	pastalarında
3rd singular	pastasında	pastalarında
1st plural	pastamızda	pastalarımızda
2nd plural	pastanızda	pastalarınızda
3rd plural	pastalarında	pastalarında
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	pastamdan	pastalarımdan
2nd singular	pastandan	pastalarından
3rd singular	pastasından	pastalarından
1st plural	pastamızdan	pastalarımızdan
2nd plural	pastanızdan	pastalarınızdan
3rd plural	pastalarından	pastalarından
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	pastamın	pastalarımın
2nd singular	pastanın	pastalarının
3rd singular	pastasının	pastalarının
1st plural	pastamızın	pastalarımızın
2nd plural	pastanızın	pastalarınızın
3rd plural	pastalarının	pastalarının

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پاسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 433

Welsh

Etymology

From English pasta, from Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpasda/, [ˈpʰasta]

Noun

pasta m (uncountable)

pasta

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pasta	basta	mhasta	phasta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch pasta, from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta c (plural pasta's)

pasta

pasta

English

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Catalan

Etymology

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Noun

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References

Cebuano

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Cimbrian

Etymology

Noun

References

Czech

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Further reading

Danish

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See also

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

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Faroese

Etymology

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Noun

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Finnish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Compounds

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

Compounds

Anagrams

Galician

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Noun

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Icelandic

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Noun

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology