canasta

canasta

English

Etymology

From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnæstə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

canasta (plural canastas)

1. (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
   • 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You, ABA Journal, page 492,

     “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”

     “Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”

   • 2004, Gregory Bateson, 15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy, Henry Bial (editor), The Performance Studies Reader, page 130,

     Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.

   • 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page,

     Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.

2. (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
   • 1949 December 19, The Canasta Craze, Life (magazine), page 47,

     Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.

Translations

card game

Bulgarian: канаста f (kanasta) Czech: kanasta f Finnish: canasta (fi) French: canasta (fr) f German: Canasta (de) n Hebrew: קנסטה‎ f (kanásta) Hungarian: kanaszta (hu) Macedonian: кана́ста f (kanásta) Norwegian: Bokmål: canasta (no) m Polish: kanasta (pl) f Portuguese: canastra (pt) f Russian: кана́ста (ru) f (kanásta) Spanish: canasta (es) f

seven cards

Norwegian: Bokmål: canasta (no) m

Anagrams

• Castana

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaːˈnɑs.taː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ca‧nas‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɑstaː

Noun

canasta f (plural canasta's)

1. (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
2. (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• kanasta

Etymology

From Spanish canasta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑstɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑs̠t̪ɑ]

Noun

canasta

1. canasta (card game)
2. canasta (meld of seven cards in above)

Declension

Inflection of canasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		canasta	canastat
genitive		canastan	canastojen
partitive		canastaa	canastoja
illative		canastaan	canastoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		canasta	canastat
accusative	nom.	canasta	canastat
	gen.	canastan
genitive		canastan	canastojen canastainrare
partitive		canastaa	canastoja
inessive		canastassa	canastoissa
elative		canastasta	canastoista
illative		canastaan	canastoihin
adessive		canastalla	canastoilla
ablative		canastalta	canastoilta
allative		canastalle	canastoille
essive		canastana	canastoina
translative		canastaksi	canastoiksi
instructive		—	canastoin
abessive		canastatta	canastoitta
comitative		—	canastoineen

Possessive forms of canasta (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	canastani	canastamme
2nd person	canastasi	canastanne
3rd person	canastansa

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.nas.ta/

• Audio

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Noun

canasta f (uncountable)

1. canasta

Further reading

• “canasta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canasta.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈnas.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈnas.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaˈnaʃ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈnas.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈnaʃ.tɐ/

Noun

canasta f (plural canastas)

1. (card games) canasta

References

1. “canasta” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
2. “canasta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin canistrum. Cognate with English canister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnasta/ [kaˈnas.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: ca‧nas‧ta

Noun

canasta f (plural canastas)

1. basket

   Synonyms: cesto, cesta

2. (card games) canasta
3. (basketball) basket, hoop
4. (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)

Derived terms

• canasta de mimbre (“wicker basket”)

Related terms

• canasto

Further reading

• “canasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014