دستان

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Persian

Etymology

See داستان (dâstân).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? dastān
Dari reading? dastān
Iranian reading? dastân
Tajik reading? daston
Dari دستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik дастон

Noun

دستان • (dastân)

  1. Alternative form of داستان (dâstân, “story, tale”).
  2. slyness, cunning
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 147:
      خود گرفتی این عصا در دست راست
      دست را دستان موسی از کجاست
      xwad giriftī īn asā dar dast rāst
      dast rā dastān-i Mūsā az kujā-st
      (Suppose that) thou hast grasped this rod firmly in thy hand:
      whence will accrue to thy hand the cunning of Moses?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  3. song, melody, tune
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 495”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:
      هر مرغ به دستانی در گلشن شاه آمد
      بلبل به نواسازی حافظ به غزل‌گویی
      har murğ ba dastānē dar gulšan-i šāh āmad
      bulbul ba nawāsāzī hāfiz ba ğazal-gūyī
      Every bird has come to the king's rose garden with a melody;
      The nightingale by singing tunes, Ḥāfiẓ by uttering love poems.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Proper noun

دستان • (dastân)

  1. (Iranian mythology) Alternative name of the hero زال (zâl).

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