پستان

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See also: بستان and تستأن

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Alternative forms

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

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

Noun

Dari پستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik пистон

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

  1. 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

Descendants

  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: पिस्तान (pistān)
    Urdu: پِستان (pistān)
  • Ottoman Turkish: پِستان (pistân)

Urdu

پِستان

Etymology

PIE word
*pstḗn

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

Pronunciation

Noun

پِسْتان (pistānm (Hindi spelling पिस्तान)

  1. 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.
  2. bosom
  3. udder, dug

Derived terms

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.