بستر

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See also: تشتر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بستر (bestar).

Noun

بستر • (bister)

  1. bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep
    Synonym: یاتاق (yatak)
  2. (in general) anything spread out on which one may lie or sleep
    Synonyms: مرقد (merkad), مهاد (mihad), یاتاق (yatak)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bister”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 627
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 929
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بستر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 818
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بستر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 364

Persian

Etymology

    From Middle Persian (wstl /⁠wistar⁠/, “bedding”), from Proto-Iranian *Habí (“to, for”) + *starH- (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰí (“to, for”) + Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, stretch out”).[1]

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? bistar
    Dari reading? bistar
    Iranian reading? bestar
    Tajik reading? bistar

    Noun

    Dari بستر
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik бистар

    بِسْتَر • (bestar)

    1. bed; mattress
    2. bedding
    3. floor

    Synonyms

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365

    Urdu

    Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
      Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi
      Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰí
      Proto-Indo-European *ster-
      Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
      Classical Persian بِسْتَر (bistar)bor.
      Urdu بستر

      Borrowed from Classical Persian بِسْتَر (bistar).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      بِسْتَر • (bistar) m (Hindi spelling बिस्तर)

      1. bed, mattress
      2. bedding
      3. pillow
      4. carpet
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