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Baluchi
Noun
چاشت • (cášt)
- lunch
Khalaj
Noun
چاشت (çâşt) (definite accusative چاشتؽ, plural چاشتلار)
- Arabic spelling of çâşt (“noon, lunch, lunchtime”)
Declension
Mazanderani
Noun
چاشت (čâšt)
- lunch
Persian
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian (čʾšt' /čāšt/, “lunch, meal”). Akin to Old Armenian ճաշ (čaš), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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čāšt
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Dari reading?
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čāšt
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Iranian reading?
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čâšt
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Tajik reading?
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čošt
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Noun
Dari
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چاشت
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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чошт
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چاشت • (čâšt)
- meal eaten between sunrise and noon; brunch; morning meal
c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]:به راه آبخوری و چاشت خوران به سمنان آمدم و آنجا مدتی مقام کردم و طلب اهل علم کردم.- ba rāh ābxwarē u čāšt xwarān ba simnān āmadam u ānjā muddatē maqām kardam u talab-i ahl-i ilm kardam.
- Drinking and having a morning meal while on the road, I came to Simnān. I stayed there for a while, and looked for a man of knowledge.
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References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “čāst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 22
Urdu
Pronunciation
Noun
چاشت • (cāśt) m (Hindi spelling चाश्त)
- breakfast
- Synonym: ناشتا (nāśtā)
- collation
- the middle hour between sunrise and the meridian
- a type of prayer offered at the time of sunrise; a morning prayer