پوسته

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta (“mail, post”). Doublet of پوشته (poşta, “messenger, courier”), an earlier borrowing from Hungarian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.ta/

Noun

پوسته • (posta) (plural پوستلر (postalar))

1. mail, post, the postal service or system in general

   پوسته و تلغراف نظارتی

   posta ve telgraf nezareti

   Ministry of Post and Telegraph

2. mail, post, the material conveyed by the postal service

Derived terms

• شهر پوسته‌سی (şehir postası, “city post”)
• قاره پوسته‌سی (kara postası, “overland post”)
• پوسته ایتمك (posta etmek, “to take someone to the police station”)
• پوسته مأموری (posta meʼmuru, “post office employee”)
• پوسته ناظری (posta nazırı, “postmaster general”)
• پوسته پاكتی (posta paketi, “mailpack”)
• پوسته چانطه‌سی (posta çantası, “mailbag”)
• پوسته یولی (posta yolu, “postal road”)
• پوسته‌جی (postacı, “postman”)
• پوسته‌خانه (postahane, “post office”)

Descendants

• Turkish: posta
• → Armenian: փոստա (pʻosta)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “posta1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3885
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “پوسته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 327
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912), “posta”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 345
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “posta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “پوسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 457

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /poːs.ˈta/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰá]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰá]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰá]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰʊːs.t̪ʰá]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰuːs.t̪ʰé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɵs.t̪ʰá]

• Rhymes: -a

Readings
Classical reading?	pōsta
Dari reading?	pōsta
Iranian reading?	puste
Tajik reading?	püsta

Noun

پوسته • (pōsta / puste) (plural پوسته‌ها (pōsta-hā / puste-hâ), Tajik spelling пӯста)

1. membrane
2. crust
3. flake

Related terms

• پوست (pust)