پیشتخته

Persian

Etymology

From (piš) +‎ (taxte).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /peːʃ.tax.ˈta/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰeːʃ.t̪ʰäx.t̪ʰä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰiːʃ.t̪ʰæx.t̪ʰe]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰeʃ.t̪ʰäχ.t̪ʰä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pēštaxta
Dari reading^?	pēštaxta
Iranian reading^?	pištaxte
Tajik reading^?	peštaxta

Noun

پیشتخته • (pištaxte)

desk, counter in a shop
Synonym: پیشخوان
cashbox in a shop
springboard

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: piştaxta
→ Ottoman Turkish: پشتخته (peştahta), փէշթախթա (peştahta), փիշթախթէ (piştahte) — Armeno-Turkish
- Turkish: peştahta
- → Albanian: peshtaf
- → Armenian: փեշթախթա (pʻeštʻaxtʻa)
- → Georgian: ფიშტახტი (pišṭaxṭi)
- → Greek: μπεζαχτάς (bezachtás)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pèštahta, пѐштахта

Further reading

Rubinčik Ju. A., editor (1985), “پیشتخته”, in Persidsko-russkij slovarʹ [Persian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پیشتخته”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 216