ماست

See also: ماشي

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَاسْت (māst), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (m’st' /⁠māst⁠/, “yoghurt”), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܡܣܬܐ (mastā).

Noun

مَاسْت • (māst) m

1. (obsolete) yoghurt
   • a. 1222, نَجِيب الدِّين السَّمَرْقَنْدِيّ [najīb ad-dīn as-samarqandiyy], edited by Juliane Müller, كِتَاب الْأَغْذِيَة وَٱلْأَشْرِبَة [kitāb al-ʔaḡdiya wa-l-ʔǎšriba] (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 101)‎^[1], Leiden: Brill, published 2017, →ISBN, page 120:

     الماست أبرد من اللبن الحليب يطفّئ الحرارة ويصلح أن يؤكل قبل الطعام في يوم تعب وحرّ.

     Yoghurt is colder than fresh milk, extinguishes the heat and is aptly eaten before a meal on a hard and hot day.

Declension

Declension of noun مَاسْت (māst)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	مَاسْت māst	الْمَاسْت al-māst	مَاسْت māst
nominative	مَاسْتٌ māstun	الْمَاسْتُ al-māstu	مَاسْتُ māstu
accusative	مَاسْتًا māstan	الْمَاسْتَ al-māsta	مَاسْتَ māsta
genitive	مَاسْتٍ māstin	الْمَاسْتِ al-māsti	مَاسْتِ māsti

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

مَاسَّتْ • (māssat) (form III) /maːs.sat/

1. third-person feminine singular past active of مَاسَّ (māssa)

Central Kurdish

Noun

ماست (mast)

1. yogurt

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَاسْت (māst), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (m’st' /⁠māst⁠/, “yoghurt”), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܡܣܬܐ (mastā).

Noun

ماست • (mast) (definite accusative ماستی (mastı), plural ماستلر (mastlar))

1. yogurt, a milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process

   Synonyms: ثمیل (semil), لبن (leben), یوغورت (yoğurt)

Derived terms

• ماستابه (mastabe, “whey from sour curds”)
• ماستمایه (mastmaye, “old curds used as ferment”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mast

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mast”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3073
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “mâst”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 697
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Oxygala”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1230
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ماست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4237
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ماست”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1656

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːst/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑ́ːst̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑ́ːst̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑ́ːst̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔ́ːst̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒ́ːst̪ʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ́st̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	māst
Dari reading?	māst
Iranian reading?	mâst
Tajik reading?	most

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (m’st' /⁠māst⁠/, “yoghurt”), from Classical Syriac ܡܣܬܐ (mastā).

Noun

ماست • (māst / mâst) (plural ماست‌ها (māst-hā / mâst-hâ), Tajik spelling мост)

1. yoghurt

   ماست و خیار ― māst u xiyār / mâst o xiyâr ― mast-o-khiyar, a cucumber and yoghurt side dish

Derived terms

• ماستابه (māstāba / mâstâbe)
• ماستبا (māstbā / mâstbâ)
• ماست‌بند (māst-band / mâst-band)
• ماست‌مالی (māst-mālī / mâst-mâli)
• ماست‌موسیر (māst-mūsīr / mâst-musir)

Related terms

• ماسیدن (māsīdan / mâsidan)

Descendants

• → Arabic: مَاسْت (māst)
• ‌ → Ottoman Turkish: ماست (mast)
  • Turkish: mast

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “ماست”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.

Etymology 2

Contraction

ماست • (māst / mâst)

1. contraction of ما (mā / mâ) + است (ast).

   این کشور ماست.

   īn kišwar-i  / in kešvar-e māst / mâst.

   This is our country.