سست

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Malay

Adjective

سست

  1. Jawi spelling of sesat‎

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (swst' /⁠sust⁠/, “slack, lazy”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫘𐫇𐫘𐫤 (sust, “soft, slack, lax”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish sist (“weak, powerless, limp; loose, slipshod, slack”), Talysh сыс (sıs, “weak”), Sanglechi sust (“lazy”), Khwarezmian (swst, “low, contemptible”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Iranian *θrusta- (“pressed forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push, thrust”), whence Old English þrēotan (“to weary”).

Compare Old Armenian շուշտ (šušt), possibly an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sust
Dari reading? sust
Iranian reading? sost
Tajik reading? sust

Adjective

سست • (sost) (comparative سست‌تَر (sost-tar), superlative سست‌تَرین (sost-tarin))

  1. (dated, literary) feeble, weak
  2. (dated, literary) soft (giving way under pressure)
  3. (dated, literary) lazy, idle
  4. (obsolete) slow
  5. (literary) relaxed, negligent, phlegmatic

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Descendants

Further reading

  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 467
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 267
  • Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Iranian Pamir Languages (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi) (Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages), volume II, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 412a
  • Nalbandyan, G. M. (1987) “سست”, in Parskeren-hayeren baṙaran [Persian–Armenian Dictionary], Yerevan: Luys, page 347a
  • Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “սիւսթ”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 507b
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 78
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سست”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 681

Urdu

Pronunciation

Adjective

سست • (sust) (Hindi spelling सुस्त)

  1. slow, sluggish
    یہ گاڑی بہت سست ہے۔ ― ye gāṛī bahut sust hai ― This car is very slow
  2. lazy, leisurely, idle
  3. relaxed, negligent, lethargic
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