پستان
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Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- پستون (pestun) (colloquial, Tehrani)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian [script needed] (pystʾn' /pestān/), from Proto-Iranian *pstānáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pstānás, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pston-ó-s, from *pstḗn (“breast”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [pis.ˈtɑːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [pʰis.t̪ʰɔ́n]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | pistān |
Dari reading? | pistān |
Iranian reading? | pestân |
Tajik reading? | piston |
Noun
[edit]Dari | پستان |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | пистон |
پستان • (pestân) (plural پستانها (pestân-hâ))
- breast; teat; udder
- 1963, Forugh Farrokhzad, “معشوق من”, in تولدی دیگر [Another Birth][1]:
- معشوق من
انسان سادهایست
انسان سادهای که من او را
در سرزمین شوم عجایب
چون آخرین نشانهٔ یک مذهب شگفت
در لابلای بوتهٔ پستانهایم
پنهان نمودهام- ma'šuq-e man
ensân-e sâde'i-st
ensân-e sâde'i-st ke man u râ
dar sarzamin-e šum-e ajâyeb
čon âxarin nešâne-ye yek mazhab-e šegeft
dar lâbelâ-ye bute-ye pestânhâ-yam
penhân namude-am - My lover
Is a simple person
A simple person whom I
Have hidden
In the folds of the thicket of my breasts
Like the final oracle of a religion of wonders
In a strange and ill-fortuned land
- ma'šuq-e man
Derived terms
[edit]- سرطانِ پستان (saratân-e pestân, “breast cancer”)
- سیاهپستان (siyâh-pestân)
- فسردهپستان (fesorde-pestân)
- نارپستان (nâr-pestân)
- نوکِ پستان (nowk-e pestân, “nipple”)
- پستانک (pestânak, “pacifier”)
- پستانی (pestâni)
- پستانبند (pestân-band, “bra”)
- پستاندار (pestân-dâr, “mammal”)
Descendants
[edit]Urdu
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Etymology
[edit]PIE word |
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*pstḗn |
Borrowed from Classical Persian پستان (pistān, “breast; udder”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pɪs.t̪ɑːn/
- Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Hyphenation: پِس‧تان
Noun
[edit]پِسْتان • (pistān) m (Hindi spelling पिस्तान)
- breast; bust
- لڑکیوں کے لئے پستان کا ابهار، جوانی کے آغاز کا حصّہ ہے۔
- Laṛkiyõ ke liye pistān kā ubhār, javānī ke āġāz kā hissā hai.
- For girls, the emergence of breasts is part of the onset of adolescence.
- bosom
- udder, dug
Derived terms
[edit]- پِسْتانیَہ (pistāniya, “mammal”)
- سَرِ پِسْتان (sar-e-pistān, “nipple”, literally “head of the breast”)
References
[edit]- “پستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پستان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “پستان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- “پستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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