canasta
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish canasta. The game originates from Uruguay.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kəˈnæstə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]canasta (plural canastas)
- (uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.
- 1951 July, Henry F. Tenney, “Per Stirpes and Not Per Capita: Or, What Your Clients Can Never Tell You”, in ABA Journal, page 492:
- “Do you know something, Fred?” she announced, “I won four dollars and eighty-five cents playing Canasta this afternoon.”
“Canasta!” exclaimed Mr. Grimes, “I didn′t know you could play that silly game.”
- 2004, Gregory Bateson, “15: A Theory of Play and Fantasy”, in Henry Bial, editor, The Performance Studies Reader, page 130:
- Imagine, first, two players who engage in a game of canasta according to a standard set of rules. […] We may imagine, however, that at a certain moment the two canasta players cease to play canasta and start a discussion of the rules.
- 2011, Barry Rigal, Card Games For Dummies, unnumbered page:
- Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here.
- (countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.
- 1949 December 19, “The Canasta Craze”, in Life (magazine), page 47:
- Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta.
Translations
[edit]card game
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Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish canasta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canasta f (plural canasta's)
- (uncountable) canasta (Uruguayan cardgame)
- (countable) canasta (meld of seven cards in the above game)
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canasta
- canasta (card game)
- canasta (meld of seven cards in above)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of canasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | canasta | canastat | |
genitive | canastan | canastojen | |
partitive | canastaa | canastoja | |
illative | canastaan | canastoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | canasta | canastat | |
accusative | nom. | canasta | canastat |
gen. | canastan | ||
genitive | canastan | canastojen canastain rare | |
partitive | canastaa | canastoja | |
inessive | canastassa | canastoissa | |
elative | canastasta | canastoista | |
illative | canastaan | canastoihin | |
adessive | canastalla | canastoilla | |
ablative | canastalta | canastoilta | |
allative | canastalle | canastoille | |
essive | canastana | canastoina | |
translative | canastaksi | canastoiksi | |
abessive | canastatta | canastoitta | |
instructive | — | canastoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “canasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish canasta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canasta f (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “canasta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish canasta.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]canasta f (plural canastas)
- (card games) canasta (game for two or four players, in which two decks of 52 cards are used, and whose objective is to obtain series of seven cards of equal value)
References
[edit]- ^ “canasta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “canasta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin canistrum. Cognate with English canister.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]canasta f (plural canastas)
- basket
- (card games) canasta
- (basketball) basket, hoop
- (Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Venezuela) laundry basket, hamper (made of plastic)
Derived terms
[edit]- canasta de mimbre (“wicker basket”)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: кана́ста (kanásta)
- → Czech: kanasta
- → Dutch: canasta
- → English: canasta
- → Finnish: canasta, kanasta
- → French: canasta
- → German: Canasta
- → Hebrew: קנסטה
- → Hungarian: kanaszta
- → Macedonian: кана́ста (kanásta)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: canasta
- → Polish: kanasta
- → Portuguese: canasta
- → Russian: кана́ста (kanásta)
Further reading
[edit]- “canasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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