بستن

بستن (form I)

1. بُسْتُنَّ (bustunna) /bus.tun.na/: second-person feminine plural past active of بَاسَ (bāsa)
2. بِسْتُنَّ (bistunna) /bis.tun.na/: second-person feminine plural past passive of بَاسَ (bāsa)

From Proto-Iranian *band-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰandʰ-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-, cognate to English bend, bind.

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بستن • (bastan) (present stem بند (band)) (now especially Iran)

1. to close, to shut
   • c. 1260, Rumi, “6:2275”, in The Masnavi:

     لیک گوید با شما من بسته‌ام، بی‌شما من .تا ابد پیوسته‌ام

     lik guyad: bâ šomâ man baste-am, bi-šomâ man tâ abad peyvaste-am.

     But says: with you, I am shut off; without you, I continue until eternity.

2. to bind
3. to tie

While the verb is understood throughout the modern Persophone world, it is most common in Iran. Speakers from Afghanistan tend to use the derived compound verb بند کردن (band kardan), especially in colloquial speech. For the sense of "to close", Tajiks prefer пӯшидан (püšidan), equivalent to Iranian پوشیدن (pušidan, “to cover”). For the sense of "to tie" or "to bind", Tajiks often use қӯш кардан (qüš kardan).

• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 4-6