شست

Persian

Etymology

Clipping of (angošt-e šast, literally “thumb's finger”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃast/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäst̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäst̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäst̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæst̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäst̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	šast
Dari reading^?	šast
Iranian reading^?	šast
Tajik reading^?	šast

Noun


Iranian Persian	شست
Dari	شست
Tajik	шаст

شست • (šast) (plural شست‌ها (šast-hâ))

thumb
fish-hook, snare
thumbstall
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 3375:
  گفت تیری جست از شست ای پسر
  نیست سنت کید آن واپس به سر
  guft tīr-ē jast az šast ay pesar
  nist sunnat k-ayad ān wāpas ba sar
  He (Moses) said, “An arrow sped from the (archer's) 'thumb-stall, my lad:
  ’tis not the rule that it should come back to the source

Descendants

→ Gujarati: શિસ્ત (śist)
→ Kannada: ಶಿಸ್ತು (śistu)
→ Konkani:
Devanagari script: शिस्त (śista)

Latin script: xist
→ Marathi:
Devanagari script: शिस्त (śista)

Modi script: 𑘫𑘲𑘭𑘿𑘝 (śīsta)

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شست”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim