verst

English

Alternative forms

• versta
• verste
• werst

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian верста́ (verstá), partly through German Werst and French verste.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɜːst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vɝst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
• Homophone: versed

Noun

verst (plural versts)

1. A Russian unit of length, equivalent to about 1.07 kilometres or about ²⁄₃ of a mile.
   • 1849, "The Observatory at Pulkowa" The North American Review Volume 0069 Issue 144 (July 1849):

     |The hill Pulkowa, twelve miles (seventeen wersts) south of Admiralty Palace in St. Petersburg, […]

   • 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Reginald in Russia”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 6:

     Her particular part of the country was a few hundred versts the other side of Tamboff, with some fifteen miles of agrarian disturbance between her and the nearest neighbour.

   • 1918, Aylmer and Louise Maude, translated by Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 604:

     ‘Is it much further, Michael?’ she asked the clerk, to dispel the thoughts that frightened her. ‘They say it's seven versts from this village.’

   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists.

Translations

unit of length

• Armenian: վերստ (hy) (verst)
• Azerbaijani: verst
• Bashkir: саҡрым (saqrım)
• Belarusian: вярста́ f (vjarstá)
• Bulgarian: ве́рста f (vérsta)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 俄里 (ngo⁴ lei⁵)

  Mandarin: 俄里 (zh) (élǐ)

• Czech: versta f
• Dutch: werst (nl) f
• Estonian: verst (et)
• Finnish: virsta (fi)
• French: verste (fr) f
• Georgian: ვერსი (versi)
• German: Werst (de) f
• Greek: βέρστι (vérsti)
• Hebrew: וֶרְסְטָה f
• Hungarian: verszta
• Ingrian: versta, virsta
• Italian: versta (it) f
• Japanese: 露里 (ja) (ろり, rori), ベルスタ (berusuta), ヴェルスタ (verusuta)
• Kazakh: шақырым (şaqyrym)
• Korean: 베르스타 (ko) (bereuseuta)
• Kyrgyz: чакырым (ky) (cakırım)
• Latvian: versts m
• Lithuanian: varstas m
• Macedonian: врста f (vrsta)
• Ottoman Turkish: وه‌رست (verst)
• Persian: ورست (fa) (verst)
• Polish: wiorsta (pl) f
• Portuguese: versta f
• Romanian: verstă (ro) f
• Russian: верста́ (ru) f (verstá)
• Slovak: versta f
• Slovene: vrsta (sl) f
• Southern Altai: чакырым (čakïrïm)
• Swedish: verst (sv) c
• Tatar: чакрым (tt) (çaqrım)
• Turkish: verst, çakrım
• Ukrainian: верста́ f (verstá)
• Uyghur: چاقىرىم (chaqirim)
• Uzbek: chaqirim (uz)
• Yakut: биэрэстэ (biereste)
• Yiddish: ווערסט m (verst), וויאָרסט m (vyorst)

Anagrams

• 'verts, trevs, verts

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrst

Adjective

verst

1. superlative degree of ver

Adjective

verst

1. superlative degree of vers

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɛst]

Adverb

verst

1. worst, superlative degree of illa

Icelandic

Adverb

verst

1. worst, superlative degree of illa

Middle English

Noun

verst

1. first

Adjective

verst

1. first

Adverb

verst

1. first

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• vondest

Etymology

From Old Norse verstr.

Pronunciation

• (Fredrikstad dialect) IPA^(key): [ʋɛ̝ʂːʈ]

• Audio:

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Adjective

verst

1. indefinite singular superlative degree of vond: worst
2. indefinite singular superlative degree of ille: worst
3. indefinite singular superlative degree of ond: worst

References

• “verst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse verst.

Adverb

verst

1. worst

References

• “verst” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.