رشت

رشت (form I)

1. رَشَّتْ (raššat) /raʃ.ʃat/: third-person feminine singular past active of رَشَّ (rašša)
2. رُشَّتْ (ruššat) /ruʃ.ʃat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of رَشَّ (rašša)

Compare روز (ruz) and روشن (rošan). All from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”).

• IPA^(key): /roʃt/

رشت • (rošt)

1. bright

• IPA^(key): /ræʃt/

رشت • (Rašt)

1. Rasht (a city in Iran, the seat of Rasht County's Central District and the capital of Gilan Province, located on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea)
2. Rasht (a county of Iran, around the city)

• English: Rasht

Akin to Old Armenian երաշտ (erašt, “dry; drought”), an Iranian borrowing.

رشت • (rašt)

1. very dry

رشت • (rašt)

1. earth, dust

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul