داستان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian داستان‎ (dâstân, “tale, story”).

Noun

داستان • (dastan, destan)

1. tale, legend, myth, fable, any fictitious narrative told to excite wonder

   Synonyms: اسطوره‎ (ustura), افسانه‎ (efsane), قصه‎ (kıssa), مثل‎ (masal)

2. tale, chronicle, story, account, any narrative description of past events

Descendants

• Turkish: destan
• → Armenian: տէստան (tēstan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “destan2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1180
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “destan”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 212
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “داستان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 561
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Fabula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 538
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “داستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2003
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “destan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “داستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 882

Persian

Pronunciation

(phonemic)

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dɑːs.ˈtɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi/approx.) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːs.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal/TEH) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːs.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal/DUS) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔs.t̪ʰɔ́n]

• Phonetic Persian:

Traditional: [داسْتان]‎

Iranian: [داسْتان]‎

Readings
Classical reading?	dāstān
Dari reading?	dāstān
Iranian reading?	dâstân
Tajik reading?	doston

(phonetic)

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːsˈt̪ʰɒːn]

Noun

Dari	داستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	достон

داستان • (dâstân) (plural داستان‌ها‎ (dâstân-hâ))

1. tale, story

   Synonym: قصه‎ (qesse)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 694—695:

     ‏آمدیم اندر تمامی داستان / وز وفاداری جمع راستان‌ / کز پس این پیشوا برخاستند / بر مقامش نایبی می‌خواستند‎

     âmadim andar tamâmi dâstân / v-az vafâdâri-ye jam'-e râstân / k-az pas-e in pišvâ bar-xâstand / bar maqâm-aš nâ'ib-i mi-xâstand

     We come [now] to complete the tale and [speak] of the loyalty of the multitude of the righteous, who rose up after [the death of] this leader, demanding a vicar in his place.

Derived terms

• داستان سرا‎ (dâstân-sarâ, “storyteller”)
• داستان نویس‎ (dâstân-nevis, “storywriter”)
• داستان کوتاه‎ (dâstân-e kutâh, “short story”)

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: դաստան (dastan)
• → Azerbaijani: dastan
• → Bengali: দাস্তান (dastan)
• → Baluchi: دستاں‎ (dastá̃)
• → English: dastan
• → Hindustani: dāstān

  Hindi: दास्तान

  Urdu: داستان‎

• → Kazakh: дастан (dastan)
• → Kyrgyz: дастан (dastan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: داستان‎ (dastan)
  • Turkish: destan
• → Pashto: داستان‎ (dāstān)
• → Rajasthani: दासतांन
• → Tatar: дастан (dastan)
• → Zazaki: destan

Urdu

Alternative forms

• داستاں‎ (dāstā̃)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian داستان‎ (dāstān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/
• (poetic) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑ̃ː/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɑ̃ː

Noun

داسْتان • (dāstān) f (Hindi spelling दास्तान)

1. story
2. tale
3. narrative

Synonyms

• قصہ‎ (qissā)
• کہانی‎ (kahānī)

References

• “داستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “داستان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

Uyghur

Etymology

Compare Persian داستان‎.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑstɑn/

Noun

داستان • (dastan) (plural داستانلار‎ (dastanlar))

1. tale; long poem

See also

• 達斯坦／达斯坦 (dásītǎn)