رشته

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (lštk' /⁠rištag⁠/),^[1] from *rišt- (“to twist”, whence Classical Persian رشتن (rištan, “to twist, to spin”)) + -ag. The former is from Proto-Iranian *wrais- (“to turn, to spin”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *wriḱ-yé-ti (“to twist, to bend”).^[2] Compare Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬯𐬌𐬀 (uruuisia, “to turn”), German reihen (“to sew loosely”), Latin rīca (“veil”).

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رشته • (rešte) (plural رشته‌ها)

1. thread, string

   رشته مروارید ― rešte-ye morvârid ― string of pearls

   رشته نخ ― rešte-ye nax ― thread of string

2. (figurative) series, sequence, string

   رشته دروغ ― rešte-ye doruġ ― string of lies

3. field of study; subject

   متخصص در رشته‌های مختلف

   motaxasses dar rešte-hâ-ye moxtalef

   specialist in various fields

4. tie, bond, thread

   رشته دوستی ― rešte-ye dusti ― tie of friendship

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 113:

     درست رشته امید ما بدان خم زلفت
     مپرس سلسله ما ز شیخ و مفتی و تایب

     durust rišta-yi ummēd-i mā bad-ān xam-i zulfat
     mapurs silsila-yi mā zi šayx u muftī u tāyib

     My thread of hope is straightened by the loops in her locks of hair;
     Do not ask the sheikh or the mufti or the repentant about [these] chains [that bind] me.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

5. reshte (Persian-style noodles); (loosely) noodles (in general)
6. mountain range
7. (computing) string

• آش رشته (âš-e rešte, “aush reshteh, Persian-style noodle soup”)
• نی‌رشته (ney-rešte, “macaroni”)

• رشتار (reštâr, “spaghetti”)

• → Armenian: արիշտա (arišta), էրիշտա (ērišta), արշտա (aršta), ռշտա (ṙšta)
• → Azerbaijani: əriştə
• → Crimean Tatar: erişte
• → Libyan Arabic: رشتة
• → Hindi: रिश्ता (riśtā)
• → Northern Kurdish: herişte, rişte
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਰਿਸ਼ਤਾ (riśtā)

  Shahmukhi script: رشتہ (riśtā)

• → Turkish: erişte