Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊstə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PUSZTACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PUSZTA

Noun

puszta (plural pusztas)Category:English lemmas#PUSZTACategory:English nouns#PUSZTACategory:English countable nouns#PUSZTACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PUSZTACategory:Pages with entries#PUSZTACategory:Pages with 2 entries#PUSZTA

1. Alternative spelling of pusta.
   • 2024 May 30, Aimee Ortiz and Alexandra E. Petri, “From 74th Place to Spelling Champion: One Boy’s Journey to Win the Scripps Bee”, in The New York Times‎:

     Bruhat rattled off a head-spinning 29 correctly spelled words in 90 seconds, including heautophany, nachschläge and puszta.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PUSZTA

Etymology

Borrowed from a SlavicCategory:Hungarian terms borrowed from Slavic languages#PUSTACategory:Hungarian terms derived from Slavic languages#PUSTA language, from Proto-SlavicCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#PUSTA *pustъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian pust and Polish pusty.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpustɒ]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#PUSTA

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  Category:Hungarian terms with audio pronunciation#PUSTA
• Hyphenation: pusz‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/tɒ#PUSTACategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/tɒ/2 syllables#PUSTA

Adjective

pusztaCategory:Hungarian lemmas#PUSTACategory:Hungarian adjectives#PUSTACategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#PUSTACategory:Pages with entries#PUSZTACategory:Pages with 2 entries#PUSZTA (comparative pusztább, superlative legpusztább)

1. bare

   Synonyms: csupasz, pőre

Noun

puszta (plural puszták)Category:Hungarian lemmas#PUSTACategory:Hungarian nouns#PUSTACategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#PUSTACategory:Pages with entries#PUSZTACategory:Pages with 2 entries#PUSZTA

1. plain (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)
2. (specifically, often capitalized) Pannonian Steppe

References

Further reading

• puszta in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.