مست

See also: مشت

Arabic

Verb

مست (form I)

مَسَّتْ (massat) /mas.sat/: third-person feminine singular past active of مَسَّ (massa)
مُسَّتْ (mussat) /mus.sat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of مَسَّ (massa)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مست (mest).

Noun

مست • (mast, mest, mist) m (plural مسوت (mesut))

(obsolete) indoor shoes, slippers, chaussons
Synonym: شحاطة (šuḥḥāṭa)

References

Berggren, Jakob (1844), “botte”, in Guide français-arabe vulgaire des voyageurs et des Francs en Syrie et en Égypte, avec carte physique et géographique de la Syrie et plan géométrique de Jérusalem ancien et moderne. Comme supplément aux Voyages en Orient‎^[1] (in French), Uppsala^→: Leffler et Sebell, column 119
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “مست”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 588b
Wetzstein, Johann Gottfried (1857), “Der Markt in Damaskus”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 11, page 484

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian (mast).

Adjective

مست • (mest)

drunk, boozy (also figurative)

Descendants

Turkish: mest

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic مِسْح (misḥ, “haircloth”).

Noun

مست • (mest)

moccasin

Descendants

Turkish: mest
→ Egyptian Arabic: مز (mizz, mazz), مزد (mizd, mazd)
→ North Levantine Arabic: مست (mist, mast)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1059
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 4613

Persian

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-Iranian *matˢtás

Persian

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭮𐭲 (mst /⁠mast⁠/, “drunk, bemused”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *matˢtás (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Sanskrit मत्त (matta).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈmast/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæst̪ʰ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	mast
Dari reading^?	mast
Iranian reading^?	mast
Tajik reading^?	mast

Adjective

مست • (mast) (Tajik spelling маст)

drunk, intoxicated, inebriated
(Dari) happy, delightful
― āhang-i mast-i afġānī ― happy Afghan song
(literary) in rut; (of elephants) in musth
- c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of the twelve champions”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎^[6]:
  برفتند و نیزه گرفته به دست
  خروشان به کردار پیلان مست
  biraftand u nēza girifta ba dast
  xurōšān ba kirdār-i pilān-i mast
  He went and took the lance in his hand,
  Roaring in the manner of elephants in musth.
  (Classical Persian romanization)

Derived terms

سرمست (sarmast)
مستانی (mastānī)
مستانی (mastān)
مستی (mastī)

Descendants

Tajik: маст (mast)
→ Azerbaijani: məst
→ Bengali: মস্ত (mosto), মস্তা (mosta)
→ Chagatai: مَسْت (mst /⁠mast⁠/)
Uyghur: مەس (mes)

Uzbek: mast
→ English: (also borrowed through Hindustani as well) musth, must
→ Gujarati: મસ્ત (mast)
→ Kazakh: мас (mas)
→ Marathi:
Devanagari script: मस्त (masta)

Modi script: 𑘦𑘭𑘿𑘝 (masta)
→ Middle Hindi: مَسْت (mst /⁠mast⁠/)
- Hindustani:
  Hindi: मस्त (mast)
  
  Urdu: مَسْت (mast)
→ Ottoman Turkish: مَسْت (mest)
- Turkish: mest
→ Old Punjabi: ਮਸਤੁ (masatu)
- Punjabi:
  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸਤ (mast)
  
  Shahmukhi script: مَسْت (mast)
→ Turkmen: mes

Noun

مست • (mast) (Tajik spelling маст)

drunk; drunkard
(Islam, Sufism, figurative) person who is intoxicated with or overcome with love for God; Sufi

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈmust/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [must̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [most̪ʰ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [must̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	must
Dari reading^?	must
Iranian reading^?	most
Tajik reading^?	must

Noun

مست • (must / most) (Tajik spelling муст)

Derived terms

مستمند (mustmand)

Urdu

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məst̪/

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (mast).

Adjective

مست • (mast) (Hindi spelling मस्त)

Notes

Transliterated mustt in the song and album title Mustt Mustt.

Synonyms

مت (matt)

Related terms

مستی (mastī)

Noun

مست • (mast) m (Hindi spelling मस्त)

Synonyms

مت (matt)