Said to be from the Egyptian city الفُسْطَاط (al-fusṭāṭ), originally being markedly a raiment of Egyptian women, or so called because it was coloured with fustet, or related to the fabric fustian, the first usually derived as from Arabic فُسْتُق (fustuq) with an Occitanized ending and the second word family (see its translations), present in the early Middle Ages, derived sometimes via فُسْتَان (fustān) from الفُسْطَاط (al-fusṭāṭ) but this is probably not the case due to its arising early in the Middle Ages unlike the Arabic which is but known from the end of the European Middle Ages and the fustian family is rather from Latin fūstis (“cudgel”) relating to the fabrication of the material, and from the Old Occitan plant name fustet there is no way to this Arabic form. The appearance of ش (š), irregular for an Arabic derivation, the mere variation itself, and the ending variation ـَان (-ān) instead of ـَال (-āl) hint an adaptation from Romance, by way of the international textiles trade in the Old World – though this must have been the case already as early as the 14th century when this word already appears in the Ḥijāz –, compare قُرْصَان (qurṣān), بُرْتُقَان (burtuqān) and قَشْقَوَان (qašqawān), all with underlying -āl auslaut, which suggests a first formation in Medieval Latin -ālis, -āneum respectively its Romance equivalents.
فُسْتَان • (fustān) m (dual فُسْتَانَانِ (fustānāni), plural فَسَاتِين (fasātīn))
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | فُسْتَان fustān |
الْفُسْتَان al-fustān |
فُسْتَان fustān |
| nominative | فُسْتَانٌ fustānun |
الْفُسْتَانُ al-fustānu |
فُسْتَانُ fustānu |
| accusative | فُسْتَانًا fustānan |
الْفُسْتَانَ al-fustāna |
فُسْتَانَ fustāna |
| genitive | فُسْتَانٍ fustānin |
الْفُسْتَانِ al-fustāni |
فُسْتَانِ fustāni |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | فُسْتَانَيْن fustānayn |
الْفُسْتَانَيْن al-fustānayn |
فُسْتَانَيْ fustānay |
| nominative | فُسْتَانَانِ fustānāni |
الْفُسْتَانَانِ al-fustānāni |
فُسْتَانَا fustānā |
| accusative | فُسْتَانَيْنِ fustānayni |
الْفُسْتَانَيْنِ al-fustānayni |
فُسْتَانَيْ fustānay |
| genitive | فُسْتَانَيْنِ fustānayni |
الْفُسْتَانَيْنِ al-fustānayni |
فُسْتَانَيْ fustānay |
| plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | فَسَاتِين fasātīn |
الْفَسَاتِين al-fasātīn |
فَسَاتِين fasātīn |
| nominative | فَسَاتِينُ fasātīnu |
الْفَسَاتِينُ al-fasātīnu |
فَسَاتِينُ fasātīnu |
| accusative | فَسَاتِينَ fasātīna |
الْفَسَاتِينَ al-fasātīna |
فَسَاتِينَ fasātīna |
| genitive | فَسَاتِينَ fasātīna |
الْفَسَاتِينِ al-fasātīni |
فَسَاتِينِ fasātīni |
From Arabic فُسْتَان (fustān).
فستان • (fustān) m (plural فساتين (fasātīn))
From Greek φουστάνι (foustáni, “dress”), from Romance. Some descendants listed here may be directly borrowed from Romance or Greek.
فستان • (fistan, fustan)
From Arabic فُسْتَان (fustān).
فستان • (fustān) m (plural فساتين (fasātīn))