different between karst vs kast

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) have a common origin in Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso); the metathesis in the Slovene term precludes German borrowing from Slovene.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: käst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• (US) enPR: kärst, IPA^(key): /k??st/
• Rhymes: -??(r)st

  Homophones: cast, caste (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

karst (plural karsts)

1. (geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
   • 1978, M. M. Sweeting, “The Karst of Kweilin, Southern China,” The Geographical Journal, vol. 144, no. 2, p. 200:

     In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.

   • 2009, Katherine Harmon, “Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008,” ScientificAmerican.com, May 29, 2009:

     The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.

Derived terms

• karstology
• thermokarst
• glaciokarst
• paleokarst

Translations

Further reading

• karst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Stark, Trask, karts, skart, stark

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Karst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rst/
• Hyphenation: karst
• Rhymes: -?rst

Noun

karst m (plural karsten)

1. (geology) karst (terrain with caves formed by limestone dissolution by underground drainage)

Derived terms

• karstbron

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?st/

Noun

karst m (plural karsts)

1. (geology) karst

Further reading

• “karst” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ar?st/
• Rhymes: -ar?st

Noun

karst n (genitive singular karsts, no plural)

1. (geology) karst

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• carst

Etymology

From German der Karst, name of a limestone region in Slovenia.

Noun

karst m (plural karstes)

1. (geology) karst

   Synonym: malpaís

English

Etymology

From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kast?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æst

Noun

kast (plural kasts or kasten)

1. A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries

Anagrams

• AKST, askt, kats, skat, task

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Noun

kast n (singular definite kastet, plural indefinite kast)

1. throw

Declension

Related terms

• give sig i kast med
• opkast
• indkast
• udkast

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kaste

References

• “kast” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto, from Proto-West Germanic *kast? (“chest, reservoir”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/
• Hyphenation: kast
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

kast f (plural kasten, diminutive kastje n)

1. cupboard, closet, wardrobe

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kas
• ? Indonesian: kas
  • ? Ternate: kas
• ? Papiamentu: kashi (from the diminutive)
• ? Sranan Tongo: kasi

Anagrams

• stak

Estonian

Noun

kast (genitive kasti, partitive kasti)

1. box, chest, crate

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

kas +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k??t]
• Hyphenation: kast

Noun

kast

1. accusative singular of kas

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ast/
• Rhymes: -ast

Noun

kast n (genitive singular kasts, nominative plural köst)

1. throw
2. fit, seizure

Declension

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) kastõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kastadak.

Verb

kast

1. water
2. wet

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kast

Noun

kast n (definite singular kastet, indefinite plural kast, definite plural kasta or kastene)

1. throw

Derived terms

Related terms

• kaste (verb)

Etymology 2

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kaste

References

• “kast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/

Noun

kast n (definite singular kastet, indefinite plural kast, definite plural kasta)

1. throw (act of throwing something)

Derived terms

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kasta and kaste

References

• “kast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Pronunciation

Noun

kast n or c

1. throw; the flight of a thrown object
2. caste; an Indian hereditary social class

Declension

Derived terms

• uppkast
• nedkast
• inkast
• utkast

See also

• kasta

Anagrams

• akts, taks