اشتر

See also: أشتر, استر, آشپز, and آستر

Arabic

Verb

اِشْتَرِ • (ištari) (form VIII)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of اِشْتَرَى (ištarā)

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Baluchi

Noun

اشتر • (uštar)

1. camel

See also

• ہشتر (huštur, huštir)

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Persian

Alternative forms

• شتر (šotor)

Etymology

From Middle Persian GMRA, ʾwštl (uštar, “camel”), from Proto-Iranian *uštrah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *úštras. Cognate with Avestan 𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (uštra, “camel”), Old Persian 𐎢𐏁𐎲𐎠𐎼𐎡 (uša-bāri-, “camel-borne”), Sanskrit उष्ट्र (úṣṭra, “camel, buffalo”), Perhaps related to Old Armenian ուղտ (ułt).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔoʃˈtoɾ/

Noun

اشتر • (oštor) (plural اشتران (oštorân) or اشترها (oštor-hâ))

1. (archaic) camel
   • Saadi, Gulistan, chapter 2, story 27

     اشتر به شعر عرب در حالتست و طرب
     گر ذوق نیست ترا، کژطبع جانوری

     uštšr ba ši'r-i Arab dar hālat-ast u tarab
     gar ḏawq nēst tu-rā, kaž-tab' jāniwarē

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “اشتر”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• "Camel - i. Etymology" in David Neil MacKenzie (December 15, 1990), Encyclopædia Iranica
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “uštar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press