آبستن

Khalaj

Adjective

آبِستَن (âbistən)

1. Arabic spelling of âbistən (“pregnant”)

Persian

Alternative forms

• اوسن (owsan) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾpwstn' /⁠ābustan, ābistan⁠/), from [script needed] (ʾpws /⁠ābus⁠/, “pregnant”), from Proto-Iranian *āpuθra- (“pregnant”), from *puθráh (“son”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (“boy; son”), from Proto-Indo-European *putlós.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.bis.ˈtan/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰän]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰän]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰän]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.bis.t̪ʰän]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.bes.t̪ʰæn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.bis.t̪ʰän]

Readings
Classical reading?	ābistan
Dari reading?	ābistan
Iranian reading?	âbestan
Tajik reading?	obistan

Adjective

Dari	آبستن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	обистан

آبستن • (âbestan)

1. (formal) pregnant

   Synonyms: (colloquial) حامله (hâmele), باردار (bârdâr)

Inflection

Predicative forms of آبستن (âbestan)

	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	آبستنم (âbestanam)	آبستنیم (âbestanim)
2nd person (“you are”)	آبستنی (âbestani)	آبستنید، آبستنین△ (âbestanid, âbestanin△)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	آبستن است، آبستنه△ (âbestan ast, âbestane△)	آبستنند، آبستنن△ (âbestanand, âbestanan△)

^△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• آبستنی (âbestani)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: આબિસ્તા (ābistā)
• → Khalaj: âbistən