tšt'

See also: TST and ṯst

Middle Persian

Etymology

Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬱𐬙𐬀 (tašta, bowl), Manichaean Parthian 𐫤𐫀𐫘𐫤 (tʾst /⁠tāst⁠/, cup), Northern Kurdish teşt, Pashto طشت (tašt), Ormuri طشت. Ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian *taš- (to make, construct; to cut, verb), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tā́ćšti, from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti ~ *tétḱ-n̥ti, from *tetḱ- (to create).

Noun

tšt' • (tašt)

  1. bowl

Descendants

  • Persian: تَشْت (tašt), طَشْت (tašt)
    • Azerbaijani: taşt, teşt
    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: तश्त (taśt)
      Urdu: تَشْت (taśt), طَشْت (t̤aśt)
    • Ottoman Turkish: طشت (tašt), تشت (tešt)
      • Turkish: taşt, teşt (dialectal)
    • Punjabi:
      Gurmukhi script: ਤਸ਼ਤ (taśat)
      Shahmukhi script: تَشْت (taśt), طَشْت (t̤aśt)
  • Arabic: طَشْت (ṭašt), طَسْت (ṭast), Arabic: طَاس (ṭās)
  • Aramaic:
    • Classical Syriac: ܛܫܬ (ṭašt)
  • Old Armenian: տաշտ (tašt)

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tašt”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 82
  • Horn, Paul (1893) “tešt”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 389, page 87
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 251
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տաշտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 370–371
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 384–385