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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).[1] First attested in c. 1649[2] as Middle Hindi داستاں (dastaṉ).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/,
- Hyphenation: दा‧स्तान, दास्‧तान
- Rhymes: -ɑːn
Noun
दास्तान • (dāstān) f (Urdu spelling داسْتان)[3][4][5]
- tale, story, romance; narrative
- Synonyms: कहानी (kahānī), क़िस्सा (qissā)
Declension
Declension of दास्तान (fem cons-stem)
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singular
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plural
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दास्तान
dāstān
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दास्तानें
dāstānẽ
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| oblique
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दास्तान
dāstān
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दास्तानों
dāstānõ
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| vocative
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दास्तान
dāstān
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दास्तानो
dāstāno
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References
More information
- ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “dāstān”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 197.
- ^ “داسْتان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दास्तान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 493
- ^ “दास्तान”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- ^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “दास्तान”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 2267