शिस्त

See also: शस्त, शस्ति, शासित, and शास्तृ

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شَسْت (šast) with a semantic shift from “thumb, fishhook, net, snare” to “discipline”.

Cognates

Compare Gujarati શિસ્ત (śist), Kannada ಶಿಸ್ತು (śistu), Konkani शिस्त (śista) / xist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɕis.t̪ə/
• Hyphenation: शिस्‧त, शि‧स्त
• Rhymes: -ə

Noun

शिस्त • (śista) f

1. discipline

   Synonym: वळण (vaḷaṇ)

   Antonym: बेशिस्त (beśista)

   शिस्त लावणे ― śista lāvṇe ― to discipline

Derived terms

• बेशिस्त (beśista)
• शिस्तबद्ध (śistabaddha)
• शिस्तभंग (śistabhaṅga)
• शिस्तवार (śistavār)
• शिस्तशीर (śistaśīr)
• स्वयंशिस्त (svayamśista, “self-discipline”)

 

Further reading

More information

• Berntsen, Maxine, “शिस्त”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983, page 147.
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “शिस्त”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press, page 794
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “शिस्त”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ), page 2946.