dost

• doest, do'st

From do +‎ -st.

• IPA^(key): /dʌst/

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• Homophones: dussed, dust
• Rhymes: -ʌst

dost

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of do

Dost and doth are generally used as auxiliary verbs; doest and doeth are generally used as main verbs.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dost.

• stød, DTOs, ToDs, TODs, T.O.D.s, T. o. D.s, T.o.D.s, T. O. D.s, dots, stod, ODTs, tods, DOTs

From Classical Persian دوست (dōst).

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dost (definite accusative dostu, plural dostlar)

1. friend

   Synonyms: rəfiq, arxadaş

• dostluq (“friendship”)
• dost-tanış (“friends and acquaintances”)

From Persian دوست.

dost

1. friend

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk ‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “dost”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• dosti

Inherited from Old Czech dosti, dost, from Old Czech do- + syt. Compare Polish dość.

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dost

1. enough
2. pretty, rather

• “dost”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “dost”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “dost”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Classical Persian دوست (dōst).

• IPA^(key): /doːst/

dost ?

1. friend

Borrowed from German Dosten.

dost n (plural dosturi)

1. oregano

• dost in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Clipping of dosta.

• IPA^(key): /dôst/

dost (Cyrillic spelling дост)

1. (colloquial) enough, sufficiently
2. (colloquial) lots of, plenty of
3. (colloquial) rather, quite (+ adjective or adverb)

   Dost depresivno... ― So depressing...

• dosta

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دوست (dost, “lover, friend, sweetheart”), from Classical Persian دوست (dōst).

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dost (definite accusative dostu, plural dostlar)

1. friend (often, arkadaş is used instead of dost)

   Synonym: (informal) kanka

2. paramour; an illicit male or female lover

   Synonyms: (a female paramour) metres, (slang) zamazingo

• düşman

• arkadaş

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوست”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 921

From Classical Persian دوست (dōst).

dost (definite accusative dosty, plural dostlar)

1. friend, mate
2. friend (term of address)

• “dost” in Enedilim.com
• “dost” in Webonary.org

• dōšt (Zhonchigal)

From Proto-Nuristani *dasta, alteration of Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰástas, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- (“hand”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdost/

dost (Nisheigram)

1. hand

• Jakob Halfmann (2022) Advances in the historical phonology of the Nuristani languages, in 'International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 19, page 127

• IPA^(key): /dɔst/

dost

1. soft mutation of tost

From Persian دوست (dôst).

dost

1. friend

   Synonyms: olboz, ombaz