خشت
Khalaj edit
Noun edit
خِشت (xişt) (definite accusative خِشتی, plural خِشتلَر)
Declension edit
Persian edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [xiʃt]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [xeʃt̪]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [χiʃt̪]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | xišt |
Dari reading? | xišt |
Iranian reading? | xešt |
Tajik reading? | xišt |
Etymology 1 edit
See Old Armenian աշտեայ (ašteay).
Noun edit
خِشْت • (xešt) (plural خشتها (xešt-hâ))
Descendants edit
References edit
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 510
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Persian [script needed] (hšt' /xišt/, “brick”), from Old Persian 𐎡𐏁𐎫𐎡 (i-š-t-i /išti-/, “sun-dried brick”), possibly borrowed from the BMAC substrate.[1][2] Cognate with Avestan 𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌𐬌𐬀 (ištiia, “brick”), 𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌 (išti), 𐬰𐬆𐬨𐬋𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬎𐬎𐬀 (zəmōištuua, “clay brick”), Sanskrit इष्टका (iṣṭakā, “brick”), Tocharian B iścem (“clay”), Pashto خښته (ḵẖaś̱ẖtaʿh), and possibly Parthian 𐫍𐫏𐫢𐫎𐫏𐫃 (hyšṯyg, “brick”).
Noun edit
خِشْت • (xešt) (plural خشتها (xešt-hâ))
Derived terms edit
- خشتی (xešti)
Descendants edit
- Tajik: хишт (xišt)
- → Uzbek: gʻisht
- → Hindi: ख़िश्त (xiśt)
- → Gujarati: ખિશ્ત (khiśt)
- → Khalaj: xişt
- → Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خشت (xişt)
- → Urdu: خِشْت (xiśt)
References edit
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Lubotsky, Alexander (1999) “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations[1], Helsinki, page 4 - ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (2017–2018) “Chapter XVII: Indo-Iranian”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The lexicon of Indo-Iranian, page 1949: “*išta-, *išti- ‘brick’”
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian خِشت (xišt, “brick”), doublet of اِیْنٹ (ī̃ṭ). Ultimately derived from the BMAC substrate.
Cognate with Punjabi اِٹّ (īṭṭ), Pashto خښته (ḵẖaś̱ẖtaʿh), Khowar اݰٹو (ušṭu), Phalura اݜٹو (iṣṭū́),
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xɪʃt̪/
Noun edit
خِشْت • (xiśt) f (Hindi spelling ख़िश्त)
Derived terms edit
- خِشْتِی (xiśtī, “(made of) brick”)
- خِشْتَک (xiśtak, “small brick”)
- خِشْت ساز (xiśt sāz, “brick-maker”)
- خِشْت زَنِی (xiśt zanī, “brick-making”)
References edit
- “خشت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خشت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “خشت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- “خشت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.