آبدست

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian آبدست (âbdast).

Noun

آبدست • (âbdest)

1. (Islam) abdest

Descendants

• Turkish: abdest, abdes, abdez (dialectal)
  • → English: abdest
  • → Portuguese: abdeste
  • → Spanish: abdesto
• → Albanian: avdes
• → Armenian: ապտես (aptes), ավդա̈սթ (avdästʻ)
• → Laz: აბდეზი (abdezi), აბდესი (abdesi) — Batumi, აპტეზი (ap̌ťezi) — Atina, Vizha, აპტესი (ap̌ťesi) — Okordule
• → Macedonian: абдест (abdest)
• → Russian: абдест (abdest)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀бдест, а̀бдес, а̀вдест

  Latin script: àbdest, àbdes, àvdest

Further reading

• Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 23

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Persian

Etymology

From آب (âb, “water”) +‎ دست (dast, “hand”).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	ā
Dari reading?	ā
Iranian reading?	â
Tajik reading?	o

Noun

آبدست • (âbdast)

1. (archaic, Islam) abdest, wudu

   Synonym: وضو (vozu)

2. (archaic) ablution

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: abdəst
• → Malay: abdas
  • Indonesian: abdas
• → Northern Kurdish: avdest
• → Ottoman Turkish: آبدست (âbdest)
  • Turkish: abdest, abdes, abdez (dialectal)
    • → English: abdest
    • → Portuguese: abdeste
    • → Spanish: abdesto
  • → Albanian: avdes
  • → Armenian: ապտես (aptes), ավդա̈սթ (avdästʻ)
  • → Laz: აბდეზი (abdezi), აბდესი (abdesi) — Batumi, აპტეზი (ap̌ťezi) — Atina, Vizha, აპტესი (ap̌ťesi) — Okordule
  • → Macedonian: абдест (abdest)
  • → Russian: абдест (abdest)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: а̀бдест, а̀бдес, а̀вдест

    Latin script: àbdest, àbdes, àvdest

• → Urdu: آبدست (ābdast)