सस्ता
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सस्ता
- /səs.t̪ɑː/ Hindi, Standard
- [sɐs.t̪äː] Hindi, Standard
Where it comes from
Unclear. Cognate to Punjabi ਸਸਤਾ (sastā), Nepali सस्तो (sasto), Gujarati સસ્તું (sastũ), Sindhi سَستو (sasto), Bengali সস্তা (śosta), Odia ଶସ୍ତା (śastā), Assamese সস্তা (xosta), Sylheti ꠢꠍꠔꠣ (hosta), and the hypercorrected Marathi स्वस्त (svasta) (earlier सस्त (sasta)).
The preservation of the cluster -st- universally rules out Sanskrit inheritance; most Indo-Aryan languages would have assimilated that to -tt-. Given the widespread distribution of the term, it would have been an early borrowing or a borrowing from an influential language.
Several theories have been put forward:
# An assimilation of Classical Persian سست (sust, “languid, lazy; loose”), making it a doublet of सुस्त (sust).
# The likely wrong suggestion of inheritance from Sanskrit समर्घ (samargha, “having a low price”). This already yielded Hindi सहंगा (sahaṅgā, “cheap”), which is not very common now. The only redeeming quality of this suggestion is that offers a direct contrast to Hindi महंगा (mahaṅgā, “expensive”), from Sanskrit महार्घ (mahārgha, “having a high price”). Compare Old Marathi सवंग (savaṃga), Gujarati સોંઘું (soṅghũ).
In English
- cheap low and/or reduced in price
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