بستر
See also: تشتر
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian بستر (bestar).
Noun
بستر • (bister)
- bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep
- Synonym: یاتاق (yatak)
- (in general) anything spread out on which one may lie or sleep
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bister”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 627
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 929
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بستر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 818
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بستر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 364
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (wstl /wistar/, “bedding”), from Proto-Iranian *Habí (“to, for”) + *starH- (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰí (“to, for”) + Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, stretch out”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /bis.ˈtaɾ/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bɪs.t̪ʰäɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [bæs.t̪ʰæɹ], [bes.t̪ʰæɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [bis.t̪ʰäɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | bistar |
| Dari reading? | bistar |
| Iranian reading? | bastar, bestar |
| Tajik reading? | bistar |
Noun
| Dari | بِسْتَر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | بَسْتَر |
| Tajik | бистар |
بَسْتَر or بِسْتَر • (bastar or bestar)
Synonyms
- یاتاق (yâtâq)
Descendants
- → Gujarati: બિસ્ત્રો (bistro), બિસ્તરો (bistaro), બિસ્તર (bistar)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ottoman Turkish: بستر (bister)
- → Punjabi:
References
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365
Urdu
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Classical Persian بِسْتَر (bistar).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bɪs.t̪əɾ/
Noun
بِسْتَر • (bistar) m (Hindi spelling बिस्तर)