پستان

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See also: بستان and تستأن

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پستان

Alternative forms

پستون (pestun) (colloquial, Tehrani)

Etymology

From Middle Persian (pystʾn' /⁠pestān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *pstānáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pstānás, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pston-ó-s, from *pstḗn (“breast”).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	pistān
Dari reading^?	pistān
Iranian reading^?	pestân
Tajik reading^?	piston

Noun


Iranian Persian	پستان
Dari	پستان
Tajik	пистон

پستان • (pestân) (plural پستان‌ها (pestân-hâ))

breast; teat; udder
Synonyms: (more polite) سینه (sine), (vulgar) مَمِه (mame)
- 1963, Forugh Farrokhzad, “معشوق من”, in تولدی دیگر [Another Birth]‎:
  معشوق من
  انسان ساده‌ایست
  انسان ساده‌ای که من او را
  در سرزمین شوم عجایب
  چون آخرین نشانهٔ یک مذهب شگفت
  در لابلای بوتهٔ پستانهایم
  پنهان نموده‌ام
  ma'šuq-e man
  ensân-e sâde'i-st
  ensân-e sâde'i-st ke man u râ
  dar sarzamin-e šum-e ajâyeb
  čon âxarin nešâne-ye yek mazhab-e šegeft
  dar lâbelâ-ye bute-ye pestânhâ-yam
  penhân namude-am
  My lover
  Is a simple person
  A simple person whom I
  Have hidden
  In the folds of the thicket of my breasts
  Like the final oracle of a religion of wonders
  In a strange and ill-fortuned land

Derived terms

سرطانِ پستان (saratân-e pestân, “breast cancer”)
سیاه‌پستان (siyâh-pestân)
فسرده‌پستان (fesorde-pestân)
نارپستان (nâr-pestân)
نوکِ پستان (nowk-e pestân, “nipple”)
پستانک (pestânak, “pacifier”)
پستانی (pestâni)
پستان‌بند (pestân-band, “bra”)
پستان‌دار (pestân-dâr, “mammal”)

Descendants

→ Hindustani:
Hindi: पिस्तान (pistān)

Urdu: پِستان (pistān)
Ottoman Turkish: پِستان (pistân)

Urdu

پِستان

Etymology

PIE word
*pstḗn

Borrowed from Classical Persian (pistān, “breast; udder”).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɪs.t̪ɑːn/
Rhymes: -ɑːn
Hyphenation: پِس‧تان

Noun

پِسْتان • (pistān) m (Hindi spelling पिस्तान)

breast; bust
لڑکیوں کے لئے پستان کا ابهار، جوانی کے آغاز کا حصّہ ہے۔
Laṛkiyõ ke liye pistān kā ubhār, javānī ke āġāz kā hissā hai.
For girls, the emergence of breasts is part of the onset of adolescence.
bosom
udder, dug

Derived terms

پِسْتانیَہ (pistāniya, “mammal”)
سَرِ پِسْتان (sar-e-pistān, “nipple”, literally “head of the breast”)

References

“پستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پستان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Platts, John T. (1884) “پستان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
“پستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

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