مشت
See also: مست
Arabic
Verb
مَشَتْ • (mašat) (form I) /ma.ʃat/
- third-person feminine singular past active of مَشَى (mašā)
Mazanderani
Adjective
مشت (mašt)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مشت (mušt, “fist, punch”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwšt' /mušt/, “fist”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *muštíš (“fist”).
Noun
مشت • (muşt) (definite accusative مشتی (muştu), plural مشتلر (muştlar))
- fist, a hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward against the palm
- Synonym: یومروق (yumruk)
- punch, box, a blow, hit, or strike made using the hand closed into a fist
- Synonym: یومروق (yumruk)
Descendants
- Turkish: muşt
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “muşt2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3320
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “muşt”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 824
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مشت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1171
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugnus”, 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 4672
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مشت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4700
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مشت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1864
Persian
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwšt' /mušt/, “fist”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *muštíš (“fist”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬌 (mušti) and Sanskrit मुष्टि (muṣṭi). Also compare Old Armenian մշտիկ (mštik), an Iranian borrowing.
Noun
مشت • (mošt)
Descendants
- → Classical Azerbaijani: müşt
- → Middle Georgian: მუშტი (mušṭi)
- → Armenian: մուշտի (mušti)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مشت (muşt)
- Turkish: muşt
Etymology 2
Adjective
مشت • (mašt) (comparative مشتتَر, superlative مشتتَرین)