داستان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān, “tale, story”).
Noun
داستان • (dastan, destan)
- tale, legend, myth, fable, any fictitious narrative told to excite wonder
- tale, chronicle, story, account, any narrative description of past events
Descendants
- Turkish: destan
- → Armenian: տէստան (tēstan)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “destan2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1180
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “destan”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 212
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “داستان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 561
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fabula”, 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[3], Vienna, column 538
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “داستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2003
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “destan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “داستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 882
Persian
Etymology
Probably a clipping of Middle Persian [script needed] (dātistān /d'tst'n'/, “law, process, court case”), from Proto-Iranian *dāt-ya- (“of the law”), from Proto-Iranian *daH- (“to place, put”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Audio (Iran): (file)
(phonemic)
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /daːs.ˈtaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɑːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɒːs.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɔs.t̪ʰɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dāstān |
| Dari reading? | dāstān |
| Iranian reading? | dâstân |
| Tajik reading? | doston |
(phonetic)
- (Iran) IPA(key): [d̪ɒːsˈt̪ʰɒːn]
Noun
| Dari | داستان |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | достон |
داسْتان • (dâstân) (plural داستانها)
- tale, story
- Synonym: قِصِّه (qesse)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 694—695:
- آمدیم اندر تمامی داستان / وز وفاداری جمع راستان / کز پس این پیشوا برخاستند / بر مقامش نایبی میخواستند
- âmadim andar tamâmi-ye dâstân / v-az vafâdâri-ye jam'-e râstân / k-az pas-e in pišvâ bar-xâstand / bar maqâm-aš nâ'ib-i mi-xâstand
- We come [now] to complete the tale and [speak] of the loyalty of the multitude of the righteous, who rose up after [the death of] this leader, demanding a vicar in his place.
Derived terms
- داستان سرا (dâstân-sarâ, “storyteller”)
- داستان نویس (dâstân-nevis, “storywriter”)
- داستان کوتاه (dâstân-e kutâh, “short story”)
Descendants
- → Armenian: դաստան (dastan)
- → Azerbaijani: dastan
- → Bengali: দাস্তান (dastan)
- → Baluchi: دستاں (dastá̃)
- → English: dastan
- → Gujarati: દાસ્તાન (dāstān)
- → Kazakh: дастан (dastan)
- → Kyrgyz: дастан (dastan)
- → Marwari: दासतांन (dāstā̃n), दास्ताँन (dāstā̃n)
- → Middle Hindi: داستاں (dastaṉ)
- → Ottoman Turkish: داستان (dâstân)
- Turkish: destan
- → Armenian: տէստան (tēstan)
- → Pashto: داستان (dāstān)
- → Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਸਤਾਨ (dāstān), ਦਾਸਤਾਂ (dāstā̃)
- Shahmukhi script: داسْتان (dāstān), داسْتاں (dāstāṉ)
- → Tatar: дастан (dastan)
- → Uyghur: داستان (dastan)
- → Zazaki: destan
References
- ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 424
- ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 94
Further reading
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “داستان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
Urdu
Alternative forms
- داسْتاں (dāstā̃)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).[1] First attested in c. 1649[2] as Middle Hindi داستاں (dastaṉ).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/
- (poetic) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑ̃ː/
- Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɑ̃ː
Noun
داسْتان • (dāstān) f (Hindi spelling दास्तान)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | داسْتان (dāstān) | داسْتانیں (dāstānẽ) |
| oblique | داسْتان (dāstān) | داسْتانوں (dāstānõ) |
| vocative | داسْتان (dāstān) | داسْتانو (dāstāno) |
References
- ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “dāstān”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 197.
- ^ “داستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Uyghur
Etymology
From Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑstɑn/
Noun
داستان • (dastan) (plural داستانلار (dastanlar))