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Cebuano
Etymology
Final clipping of English prostitute, from Latin prōstitutus.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pros‧ti
Noun
prosti
Hungarian
Etymology
Clipping of prostituált (“prostitute”).
Pronunciation
Noun
prosti (plural prostik)
Declension
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Kashubian
Etymology
Etymology tree
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *prȍstъ.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prosti (comparative prostszi or proscészi or proszczészi, superlative nôprostszi or nôproscészi or nôproszczészi, derived adverb prosto)
Declension
Further reading
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “prosty”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Low German [Term?].
Noun
prosti n (definite singular prostiet, indefinite plural prosti or prostier, definite plural prostia or prostiene)
- a deanery
Related terms
References
- “prosti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Low German [Term?].
Noun
prosti n (definite singular prostiet, indefinite plural prosti, definite plural prostia)
- a deanery
Related terms
References
- “prosti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
a prosti (third-person singular present prostește, past participle prostit) 4th conjugation
- (transitive) to fool, to trick
- Synonym: păcăli
- 1896, Garabet Ibrăileanu, Bel-Ami, translation of original by Guy de Maupassant, part 2, chapter 8:
- Mă amețise ca pe un nătărău, mă prostise și mă fermecase.
- She had misled me like a tool, she had fooled me and enchanted me.
- 2007 December 2, Groovy Swing, “parada”, in soc.culture.romania (Usenet):
- Daca iei la purecat biografiile greilor ofiterimii superioare, ai sa vezi ca si vorba asta de prostit pro$tii e mai degraba ceea ce la voi in SUA se cheama "urban legend".
- If you comb over the biographies of the heavyweights of the upper ranks, you’ll see that this notion made to fool fools is also more like what you in the USA call “urban legend”.
- (reflexive) to act goofy, fool around
- 2016 November 26, forum poster, “Anxietate [Anxiety]”, in ROmedic forums, archived from the original on 2017/1/1:
- Mereu mi-a fost frica de boli adica am avut momente in care daca ma prosteam putin sau imitam o persoana credeam ca am dubla personalitate […]
- I've always been afraid of diseases, like, I've had moments where, if I was fooling around a bit or imitating a person, I'd think I had a split personality […]
- (reflexive or transitive, often participle) to stupefy, make unable to think
- Synonym: tâmpi
- 1876, Alexandru Macedonski, Cârjaliul, chapter 3:
- Smărăndița nu mai știa de bucurie, iar Dobre sta prostit în mijlocul casei neștiind cum să explice o asemenea întîmplare.
- Smărăndița was beside herself with joy, and Dobre was sitting stupefied in the middle of the house, not knowing how to explain such an event.
- 1920, Liviu Rebreanu, Ion, volume 2, chapter 4:
- Se uita drept în ochii lui iscoditori, zăpăcindu‑l și prostindu‑l.
- She was looking right into his curious eyes, flustering him and stupefying him.
- (reflexive) to become stupid
- 1872, Mihai Eminescu, Poor Dionis:
- — Maistre Ruben, te-ai prostit rău de când nu ne-am mai văzut, zise tânărul zâmbind, ori eu am devenit o ființă superioară magistrului meu… se poate și asta.
- “Master Ruben, you’ve become severely stupid since we last saw each other”, said the youth with a smile, “or perhaps I am become a being superior to my magister… that’s also possible.”
- (reflexive, rare, of things) to lose quality, deteriorate, no longer correspond
- 1989, Grigore Moisil, Viorica Moisil, O familie ca oricare alta, →ISBN, page 141:
- Mangalia anul acesta nu se prezintă tocmai fermecătoare, pentru că s-au prostit restaurantele.
- This year, Mangalia isn't exactly charming, because the restaurants became worse in quality.
- (reflexive, rare) to become weak
- (rare, obsolete) to pretend to be something else
- (reflexive or transitive, vanishingly rare, obsolete) to make or become ugly
- 1825, various authors, “Prostescu”, in Lesicon roma̓nescu-la̓tinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu [Lexicon of Buda], Budapest, page 555:
- Prostescu, tire, titu. Просте́ск, ти́ре, ти́т, I. verb. act. pre quineva […] 2) i. e. facu uri̓tu: deturpo, deformem facio: rutítani: garſtig machen — II. reciprocum: me̓ prostescu […] b) me̓ facu uri̓tu: turpis fio: rútúlni: garſtig werden.
- Prostesc. I. active verb: [somebody] […] 2) I make ugly; II. reciprocal: […] b) I become ugly
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic простити (prostiti, “to forgive”).
Verb
a prosti (third-person singular present prostește, past participle prostit) 4th conjugation
- (intransitive, regional) synonym of cerși (“beg for alms”)
- (transitive, obsolete) to allow for a dispensation
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) to spare someone of a punishment
- (reciprocal, obsolete, rare) to make up (make peace)
- (reflexive, obsolete, rare) to step down, or specifically to abdicate [with de ‘from an office’]
- (reflexive, obsolete, rare) to retreat to a place
Conjugation
Synonyms
References
- “prosti”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
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Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
prosti (Cyrillic spelling прости)
Tagalog
Etymology
Clipping of English prostitute, from Latin prōstitutus.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpɾosti/ [ˈpɾos.t̪ɪ]
- Rhymes: -osti
- Syllabification: pros‧ti
Noun
prosti (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜓᜐ᜔ᜆᜒ) (colloquial, derogatory, vulgar)
- prostitute
- Synonym: puta
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