دسته

See also: دستة

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian دسته (dasta).

Noun

دسته (dästä)

1. grasp of the hand
2. handful, bunch, bouquet

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: dəstə
• Ottoman Turkish: دسته (deste, teste)
  • Turkish: deste
  • → Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta)
  • → Bulgarian: тесте (teste)
  • → Macedonian: тесте (teste)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тѐсте

    Latin script: tèste

References

• Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13^th to the 16^th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎^[1], Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 75

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دسته (dästä), from Classical Persian دسته (dasta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɛˈstɛ]

Noun

دسته • (deste, teste)

1. bundle, bunch, handful, bouquet, packet

   Synonyms: دمت (demet), قبضه (kabza), طوتام (tutam), آووج (avuç)

2. pack of cards

   Synonym: اسقامبیل (iskambil)

3. a dozen, specifically a bundle of twelve

   Synonym: دوزینه (duzına, düzine)

4. grasp of the hand

   Synonyms: صاب (sap), قبضه (kabza)

5. handle of a mortar, pestle

   Synonyms: قبضه (kabza), طوتام (tutam), طوقماق (tokmak), ال (el)

Descendants

• Turkish: deste
• → Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta)
• → Bulgarian: тесте (teste)
• → Macedonian: тесте (teste)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: тѐсте

  Latin script: tèste

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dstk' /⁠dastag⁠/, “bunch, bundle, group; handle”), equivalent to دست (dast, “hand”) +‎ ـه (-e). Akin to Old Armenian դաստակ (dastak), տստակ (tstak), Arabic دَسْتَج (dastaj), Classical Syriac ܕܣܬܩܐ (dastəqāʾ), all Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [das.ta]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æs.t̪ʰe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]

Readings
Classical reading?	dasta
Dari reading?	dasta
Iranian reading?	daste
Tajik reading?	dasta

Noun

Dari	دسته
Iranian Persian
Tajik	даста

دسته • (daste) (plural دسته‌ها (daste-hâ) or دستجات (dastejât))

1. handle; helve; haft

   دستهٔ تبر ― daste-ye tabar ― hatchet handle

   دستهٔ کارد ― daste-ye kârd ― knife handle

2. group; bunch; a number, a handful

   دستهٔ گل ― daste-ye gol ― bunch of flowers; bouquet

   دسته‌های پرندگان ― daste-hâ-ye parandegân ― flocks of birds

3. kind; variety

   دسته‌های مختلف موسیقی ― daste-hâ-ye moxtalef-e musiqi ― different kinds of music

Derived terms

• دسته کردن (daste kardan, “to group; to class”)

 

Descendants

• → Bashkir: тиҫтә (tiśtə)
• → Georgian: დასტა (dasṭa)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दस्ता (dastā)

  Urdu: دستہ (dasta)

• → Kazakh: десте (deste)
• → Kyrgyz: десте (deste)
• → Middle Armenian: դաստա (dasta), դաստայ (dastay), դաստէ (dastē)
  • Armenian: դաստա (dasta)
• → Northern Kurdish: deste
• → Old East Slavic: десть (destĭ) (via Turkic)
  • Russian: десть (destʹ)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: دسته (dästä)
  • Azerbaijani: dəstə
  • Ottoman Turkish: دسته (deste, teste)
    • Turkish: deste
    • → Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta)
    • → Bulgarian: тесте (teste)
    • → Macedonian: тесте (teste)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: тѐсте

      Latin script: tèste

• → Ossetian: даста (dasta)
• → Rajasthani: दस्तौ (dastau)
• → Romani: destó
• → Uzbek: dasta

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دسته”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul