داستان

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān, tale, story).

Noun

داستان (dastan, destan)

  1. tale, legend, myth, fable, any fictitious narrative told to excite wonder
    Synonyms: اسطوره (ustura), افسانه (efsane), قصه (kıssa), مثل (masal)
  2. tale, chronicle, story, account, any narrative description of past events

Descendants

  • Turkish: destan
  • Armenian: տէստան (tēstan)

Further reading

Persian

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Etymology

Probably a clipping of Middle Persian (dātistān /⁠d'tst'n'⁠/, law, process, court case), from Proto-Iranian *dāt-ya- (of the law), from Proto-Iranian *daH- (to place, put), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (to do, place).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Iran):(file)

(phonemic)

Readings
Classical reading? dāstān
Dari reading? dāstān
Iranian reading? dâstân
Tajik reading? doston

(phonetic)

Noun

Dari داستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik достон

داسْتان (dâstân) (plural داستان‌ها (dâstân-hâ))

  1. tale, story
    Synonym: قِصِّه (qesse)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 694—695:
      آمدیم اندر تمامی داستان / وز وفاداری جمع راستان‌ / کز پس این پیشوا برخاستند / بر مقامش نایبی می‌خواستند
      âmadim andar tamâmi-ye dâstân / v-az vafâdâri-ye jam'-e râstân / k-az pas-e in pišvâ bar-xâstand / bar maqâm-aš nâ'ib-i mi-xâstand
      We come to complete the tale and of the loyalty of the multitude of the righteous, who rose up after this leader, demanding a vicar in his place.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 424
  2. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 94

Further reading

Urdu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).[1] First attested in c. 1649[2] as Middle Hindi داستاں (dastaṉ).

Pronunciation

Noun

داسْتان (dāstānf (Hindi spelling दास्तान)

  1. story, tale, narrative
    Synonyms: قِصَّہ (qissa), کَہانی (kahānī)

Declension

    Declension of داستان
singular plural
direct داسْتان (dāstān) داسْتانیں (dāstānẽ)
oblique داسْتان (dāstān) داسْتانوں (dāstānõ)
vocative داسْتان (dāstān) داسْتانو (dāstāno)

References

  1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “dāstān”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 197.
  2. ^ داستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Uyghur

Etymology

From Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).

Pronunciation

Noun

داستان (dastan) (plural داستانلار (dastanlar))

  1. tale; long poem

See also