φουστάνι

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Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek φουστάνιν (phoustánin), φυστάνιον (phustánion), from Italian fustagno or Venetan fustagno (“fustian”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fuˈsta.ni/

Noun

φουστάνι • (foustáni) n (plural φουστάνια)

dress
(colloquial) woman, women

Declension

Declension of φουστάνι

	singular	plural
nominative	φουστάνι •	φουστάνια •
genitive	φουστανιού •	φουστανιών •
accusative	φουστάνι •	φουστάνια •
vocative	φουστάνι •	φουστάνια •

Related terms

see: φούστα f (foústa, “skirt”)

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: فستان (fistan, fustan)
- Turkish: fistan, (dialectal) fustan, fıstan, fiston, fisdan
- → Albanian: fistan, fustan
- → Armenian: ֆիստան (fistan), ֆստան (fstan) — Van, ֆիսդան (fisdan)
- → Bulgarian: фиста́н (fistán), фуста́н (fustán)
- → Hungarian: fosztán, foszlán, fosztány, foszlány, foszlyán, foszláng, foszláncz, foszlánk
- → Ladino: fostan
- → Macedonian: фустан (fustan), (dialectal) фастан (fastan), фистан (fistan)
- → Persian: فستان (festân)
- → Serbo-Croatian: fìstān, fùstān, vìstān / фѝста̄н, фу̀ста̄н, вѝста̄н

Further reading

φουστάνι - Andriotis (Ανδριώτης), Nikolaos Pantelis (1983) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής (in Greek, polytonic) 3rd ed. (1st ed. 1951), Thessaloniki: Aristotelian University, the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
φυστάνιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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