मस्त

Borrowed from Classical Persian مست (mast). Doublet of मत्त (matt). Compare Bengali মস্ত (mosto), Gujarati મસ્ત (mast), Punjabi ਮਸਤ (mast), English musth.

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /məst̪/, [mɐst̪]

मस्त • (mast) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling مَست)

1. drunk, intoxicated

   Synonyms: नशे में (naśe mẽ), मत्त (matt), धुत्त (dhutt)

2. passionate, lustful

   मस्त आँखें ― mast ā̃khẽ ― lustful eyes

3. (colloquial) good, fine, nice, cool
   • 2020 May 31, Dr. Kshama Sisodiya, कथा सीपिका, Kavya Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

     “कैसे हो? कहाँ रहते हो जो तुम्हारे दर्शन ही नहीं होते हैं?”
     “एकदम स्वस्थ और मस्त हूँ डॉक्टर साहब!”

     “kaise ho? kahā̃ rahte ho jo tumhāre darśan hī nahī̃ hote ha͠i?”
     “ekdam svasth aur mast hū̃ ḍŏkṭar sāhab!”

     “How are you? Where do you live that you are never seen?”
     “Completely healthy and fine, Doctor!”

4. carefree, unworried

   Synonyms: लापरवाह (lāparvāh), बेफ़िक्र (befikra), निश्चिंत (niścint)

   • 2009, रणविजय सिंह सत्यकेतु, अकथ, Bhartiya Jnanpith, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:

     आँखें उसकी पतंग पर टिकी होती और भागता वह जमीन पर होता था, इसलिए कभी ठोकर खाकर गिर पड़ता तो कभी झाड़ियों या कीचड़ में जा फँसता था। फिर भी वह मस्त था।

     ā̃khẽ uskī pataṅg par ṭikī hotī aur bhāgtā vah jamīn par hotā thā, islie kabhī ṭhokar khākar gir paṛtā to kabhī jhāṛiyõ yā kīcaṛ mẽ jā phãstā thā. phir bhī vah mast thā.

     His eyes would be fixed on his kite and he used to be running on the ground, so sometimes he would stumble and fall and sometimes he would get stuck in the bushes or mud. Still he was carefree.

5. engrossed, occupied, busy

   Synonyms: लीन (līn), रत (rat)

   • 2022 November 22, Shobha Madhwal, मेरी अनुभूतियाँ [My realizations], Booksclinic Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:

     हरेक अपने में मस्त और व्यस्त है,
     हर एक के हाथ में मोबाइल है। तल्लीन उसमें इतने खोए हैं,
     एक-दूजे की सूरत तक से बेख़बर हैं।

     harek apne mẽ mast aur vyast hai,
     har ek ke hāth mẽ mobāil hai. tallīn usmẽ itne khoe ha͠i,
     ek-dūje kī sūrat tak se bexbar ha͠i.

     Everyone is occupied and busy with themselves, everyone has a mobile in their hands. They are so lost and engrossed in it that they are unaware of even each other's faces.

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “मस्त”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 499.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “मस्त”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 797

Borrowed from Classical Persian مست (mast). Compare Gujarati મસ્ત (mast), Hindustani مَسْت (mast) / मस्त (mast), Punjabi ਮਸਤ (mast) / مَست (mast).

• IPA^(key): /məs.t̪ə/

मस्त • (masta)

1. intoxicated

   Synonyms: धुंद (dhunda), मत्त (matta)

2. (colloquial) good, fine

• Berntsen, Maxine, “मस्त”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983, page 115.
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “मस्त”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, page 636
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “मस्त”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 2435.

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐs̪.t̪ɐ/

मस्त • (masta) stem, m or n (Classical Sanskrit)

1. (anatomy) head, forehead
   • Dhūrtasamāgama 11.1:

     दण्डकमण्डलुमण्डितहस्तः सुललिततिलकविभूषितमस्तः ।

     daṇḍakamaṇḍalumaṇḍitahastaḥ sulalitatilakavibhūṣitamastaḥ.

     His hands adorned with a stick and a kamandalu, his beautiful forehead decorated with a tilak […]

• मस्तक (mastaka)

• Pali: mattha
• Prakrit: 𑀫𑀢𑁆𑀣 (mattha) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मस्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 793, column 3.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “masta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 571