जुष्ट

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́uṣṭás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́uštás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵus-tó-s, from *ǵews- (“to try, taste”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬀 (zušta), Persian دوست (dust, “friend”), Latin gustō (“I taste”), Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to choose”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to taste”), Old Irish do·goa (“to choose, select”). The Sanskrit root is जुष् (juṣ).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑúʂ.ʈɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʑuʂ.ʈɐ/

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /d͡ʑuʂ.ʈɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʑuʂ.ʈɐ/

जुष्ट • (juṣṭá)

1. pleased, propitious
2. liked, wished, loved, welcome, agreeable, usual (with dative or genitive, rarely instrumental)
3. frequented, visited, inhabited
4. swept over (by the wind)
5. afflicted by (instrumental or in compounds)
6. served, obliged, worshipped
7. practised
8. furnished with, possessed of (instrumental or in compounds)

• अजुष्ट (ájuṣṭa)

जुष्ट • (júṣṭa) stem, n

1. the remnants of a meal

• (?) Prakrit: 𑀛𑀼𑀝𑁆𑀞 (jhuṭṭha, “false”) (see there for more)
• Prakrit: 𑀚𑀼𑀝𑁆𑀞 (juṭṭha)
  • Central:
    • Hindustani: jūṭh, jūṭhā, jhūṭh, jhūṭhā, jhūṭ
      • Hindi: जूठ (“secondhand (food)”), जूठा, झूठ, झूठा, झूट
      • Urdu: جُوٹھ (“secondhand (food)”), جُوٹھا, جھُوٹھ, جھُوٹھا, جھُوٹ
  • Eastern:
    • Assamese: জুঠা (zutha, “ort”)
    • Bengali: ঝুঁটা (jhũṭa)
    • Odia: ଜୁଠା (juṭhā), ଜୁଟ (juṭa), ଝୁଟା (jhuṭā)
  • Northern:
    • Kumaoni: जूठो (jūṭho)
    • Nepali: जुठो (juṭho)
  • Northwestern:
    • Punjabi: juṭṭhā, jūṭhā, jhūṭhā

      Gurmukhi script: ਜੁੱਠ, ਜੂਠਾ, ਝੂਠਾ

      Shahmukhi script: جُٹّھا, جُوٹھا, جھُوٹھا

    • Sindhi: jūṭho, joṭho

      Arabic script: جُٺو, جوٺو

      Devanagari script: जूठो, जोठो

  • Southern:
    • Marathi: झुठा (j̈huṭā)
  • Western:
    • Gujarati: ઝુઠું (jhuṭhũ)

• Monier Williams (1899) “जुष्ट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0424/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 599
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “juṣṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press