-istan

-istan

1. Alternative form of -stan.

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).

-istan

1. -stan

• -stan

Compare Persian ـِستَان (-estân), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam (“act of standing; place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂nom, derived from the root *steh₂- (“to stand”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪsˈtɑːn/

-istan f (Arabic spelling ـستان)

1. Used to form feminine nouns of regions and countries

   ‎kurd (“Kurd”) + ‎-istan → ‎Kurdistan (“the Middle Eastern region of Kurdistan”)

2. Used to form feminine collective nouns, meaning “a place in which to find a great quantity of the object expressed by the root noun”

   ‎dar (“tree”) + ‎-istan → ‎daristan (“forest”)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـستان (-istan), from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).

-istan

1. -stan
2. (dialectal) a diminutive suffix

   Synonym: -cık

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).

-istan

1. -stan