Etymology

pusta

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Today it means: A temperate grassland biome of the Great Hungarian Plain; an exclave of the Pannonian Steppe. Full definition →

Hungarian puszta ← Proto-Slavic *pustъ
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  1. Proto-Slavic · derived from*pustъ
  2. Hungarian · borrowed frompuszta
  3. English todaypusta

From Hungarian puszta. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *pustъ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.