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گشت

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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    From گَشْتَن (gaštan).

    Noun

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    گشت (gašt)

    1. patrol, watch
      گشت بودنgašt budanto be on patrol
    Derived terms
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    Descendants
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    • Azerbaijani: gəşt
    • Hindustani:
      Hindi: गश्त (gaśt)
      Urdu: گشت (gaśt)
    • Ottoman Turkish: كشت (geşt)
    • Punjabi:
      Gurmukhi script: ਗਸ਼ਤ (gaśat)
      Shahmukhi script: گشت (gaśt)

    Etymology 2

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    From Middle Persian 𐮅𐮍𐮎𐮈 (wspy), from Old Persian 𐎻𐎿𐎱 (vi-s-p /⁠vispa⁠/), a borrowing from Old Median [Term?] (/⁠*vispa⁠/). Inherited from Proto-Iranian *wícwah (all, every; whole), Proto-Indo-Iranian *wíćwas (all, every), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wiḱ/wo-.

    Perhaps influenced from the Book Pahlavi script; >wisp >*gisp/t >*gišp/t >gist (whence Doublet of وسف).

    Cognate with Sanskrit विश्व (víśva, all, every; universe), Parthian 𐭅𐭉𐭎𐭐 (wysp /⁠wisp⁠/), Sogdian 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫛 (wysp /⁠wisp⁠/), Bactrian οισπο (oispo /⁠wīsp⁠/), Old Persian 𐎻𐎿 (vi-s /⁠visa⁠/), and Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬞𐬀 (vīspa).

    Pronunciation

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    Readings
    Classical reading? gišt
    Dari reading? gišt
    Iranian reading? gešt
    Tajik reading? gišt

    Adjective

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    گشت (gešt)

    1. all, everyone
      Synonym: (Classical Persian Zoroastrian texts) وسف (wisf)

    Urdu

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Classical Persian گشت.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    گَشْت (gaśtm (Hindi spelling गश्त)

    1. patrol, watch
    2. (Islam) practice by the Tablighi Jamaat of visiting local Muslims in the vicinity and invite them to the mosque

    Further reading

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    • گشت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
    • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “گشت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.