Waasta (वास्ता) (noun masculine)
Origin: Arabic
Waasta is an Urdu word, it means “account, sake, reason, means, motive” in English, while in Hindi it’s called as “khaata/खाता, liye/लिए, kaaran/कारण, maadhyam/माध्यम, prerna/प्रेरणा.”