رشته

See also: رستہ, رشتہ, and رشتة

Persian

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (lštk' /⁠rištag⁠/),^[1] from *rišt- (“to twist”, whence Classical Persian (rištan, “to twist, to spin”)) + -ag. The former is from Proto-Iranian *wrais- (“to turn, to spin”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *wriḱ-yé-ti (“to twist, to bend”).^[2] Compare Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬯𐬌𐬀 (uruuisia, “to turn”), German reihen (“to sew loosely”), Latin rīca (“veil”).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rɪʃ.t̪ʰǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rɪʃ.t̪ʰǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [riʃ.t̪ʰǽ]

رشته • (rešte) (plural رشته‌ها (rešte-hâ))

thread, string
― rešte-ye morvârid ― string of pearls

― rešte-ye nax ― thread of string
(figurative) series, sequence, string
― rešte-ye doruğ ― string of lies
field of study; subject
motaxasses dar rešte-hâ-ye moxtalef
specialist in various fields
tie, bond, thread
― rešte-ye dusti ― tie of friendship
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 113:
  درست رشته امید ما بدان خم زلفت
  مپرس سلسله ما ز شیخ و مفتی و تایب
  durust rišta-yi ummēd-i mā bad-ān xam-i zulfat
  mapurs silsila-yi mā zi šayx u muftī u tāyib
  My thread of hope is straightened by the loops in her locks of hair;
  Do not ask the sheikh or the mufti or the repentant about [these] chains [that bind] me.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
reshte (Persian-style noodles); (loosely) noodles (in general)
mountain range
(computing) string

^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “rištag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437