چاشت

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See also: حاسب

Baluchi

Noun

چاشت (cášt)

  1. lunch

Khalaj

Noun

چاشت (çâşt) (definite accusative چاشتؽ, plural چاشتلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of çâşt (noon, lunch, lunchtime)

Declension

Mazanderani

Noun

چاشت (čâšt)

  1. lunch

Persian

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian (čʾšt' /⁠čāšt⁠/, lunch, meal). Akin to Old Armenian ճաշ (čaš), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? čāšt
Dari reading? čāšt
Iranian reading? čâšt
Tajik reading? čošt

Noun

Dari چاشت
Iranian Persian
Tajik чошт

چاشت (čâšt)

  1. meal eaten between sunrise and noon; brunch; morning meal
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:
      به راه آبخوری و چاشت خوران به سمنان آمدم و آنجا مدتی مقام کردم و طلب اهل علم کردم.
      ba rāh ābxwarē u čāšt xwarān ba simnān āmadam u ānjā muddatē maqām kardam u talab-i ahl-i ilm kardam.
      Drinking and having a morning meal while on the road, I came to Simnān. I stayed there for a while, and looked for a man of knowledge.
  2. (Dari, uncommon elsewhere) noon, midday
    • 2024 May, “سیلاب‌های بغلان؛ دامنه این فاجعه گسترش یافته است [Baghlan floods; The Scope of This Disaster Has Expanded]”, in طلع‌نیوز [Tolo News]‎:
      ولسوالی‌های برکه، نهرین، گذرگاه نور، خوست و فرنگ و حومه‌های شهر پلخمری مرکز ولایت بغلان پس از چاشت روز گذشته (جمعه، ۲۱ ثور) گواه سرازیر شدن سیلاب‌های ویران‌گر بود.
      wuluswālī-hā-yi burka, nahrīn, guzargāh-i nūr, xōst wa firing wa hawma-hā-yi šahr-i pul-i-xumrī markaz-i wilāyat bağlān pas az čāšt-i rōz-i guzašta (jum'a, 21 sawr) guwāh sarāzēr šudan saylāb-hā-yi wayrān-gar būd.
      The districts of Burka, Nahrīn, Guzargāh-i Nūr, Khōst wa Firing and suburbs of Pul-i-Khumrī, the capital of the Baghlan Province, witnessed devastating downward flowing floods yesterday afternoon (Friday, 21 Sawr)

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References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “čāst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 22

Urdu

Pronunciation

Noun

چاشت (cāśtm (Hindi spelling चाश्त)

  1. breakfast
    Synonym: ناشتا (nāśtā)
  2. collation
  3. the middle hour between sunrise and the meridian
  4. a type of prayer offered at the time of sunrise; a morning prayer