busti

English translation: a locality or inhabitation

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Hindi term or phrase:	busti
English translation:	a locality or inhabitation
Entered by:	Sanjeev Poonia

12:53 Mar 6, 2010

Hindi to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

Hindi term or phrase: busti

there are two situations the word is used - both in kalimpong:

1) (this is the continuation where biju is robbed)
Biju began to quake, and fumbling, tripping, he took off the last items of clothing, stood in his white underpants.
By this time, dogs from all over the busti had arrived galloping. They were battered and balding from fights and disease, but they, like their masters, had the air of outlaws. They surrounded Biju with gangster swagger, tails curved up over them like flags, growling and barking.
Children and women peered from the shadows.
“Let me go,” he begged.

2) She walked home very slowly, sick, sick. The mist was thickening, smoke adding to the dusk and the vapor. The smell of potatoes cooking came from busti houses all along the way, a smell that would surely connote comfort to souls across the world, but that couldn’t comfort her...

both contexts refer to a number of houses/huts along the road, and it's not hard to infer they are rather poor shacks

vitaminBcomplex KudoZ activity Questions: 249 (none open) (7 closed without grading) Answers: 0
Local time: 18:56

a locality or inhabitation

Explanation:
a locality or inhabitation (small colony) of people

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Sanjeev Poonia
India
Local time: 21:26

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thanx
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Summary of answers provided

5 +2

a settlement, a village

Lalit Sati

5 +1

a locality or inhabitation

Sanjeev Poonia

Summary of reference entries provided

useful resource

Martin Cassell

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

बस्ती a settlement, a village

Explanation:
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Lalit Sati
India
Local time: 21:26
Native speaker of:

Hindi
PRO pts in category: 20

1 day 1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a locality or inhabitation

Explanation:
a locality or inhabitation (small colony) of people

Example sentence(s):

There were a small busti/ inhabitation along side of a country road.
Fishermen locality / colony (busti) was devastated by tsunami in the last month.

Sanjeev Poonia
India
Local time: 21:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Hindi
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

thanx

Reference comments

36 mins

Reference: useful resource

Reference information:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?...

Martin Cassell
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

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