| Word form | astaren |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | to catch; seize, grasp; touch |
| Czech translation | chytit; uchopit; dotknout se, sahat (na) |
| Hungarian translation | (meg)fog; megragad, elkap; (meg)érint, fogdos |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *astar- |
| Etymological note | No convincing etymology. |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 12: perhaps < OIA *sthārayati ‘festmachen’ |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 117: < OIA *haste har- ‘catch; steal’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 28–29: perhaps < Sanskrit sthā- [Turner 14832] |
| Turner's etymology | 14832? |