اسطوره

Borrowed from Arabic أُسْطُورَة (ʔusṭūra, “fable, myth”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía, “inquiry, examination”).

اسطوره • (ustura) (plural اساطیر (esatir))

1. tale, legend, myth, fable, any fictitious narrative told to excite wonder

   Synonyms: افسانه (efsane), داستان (dastan), قصه (kıssa), مثل (masal)

• Turkish: ustura

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ustura”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4999
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسطوره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 89
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسطوره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 213
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسطوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 110

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Borrowed from Arabic أُسْطُورَة (ʔusṭūra, “fable, myth”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía, “inquiry, examination”).

اسطوره • (osture) (plural اساطیر (asâtir) or اسطوره‌ها (osture-hâ))

1. myth

   Synonyms: افسانه (afsâne), افسان (afsân), اندار (andâr)

   • late 1100s, Khāqānī, “Qaṣīda 97”, in دیوان خاقانی‎:

     قفل اسطورهٔ ارسطو را
     بر در احسن الملل منهید

     qufl-i ustūra-yi arastū rā
     bar dar-i ahsanu-l-milal ma-nihēd

     Do not put the padlock of Aristotle's myths on the door of the best of nations.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)