رشت

See also: زشت and ژست

Arabic

Verb

رشت (form I)

1. رَشَّتْ (raššat) /raʃ.ʃat/: third-person feminine singular past active of رَشَّ (rašša)
2. رُشَّتْ (ruššat) /ruʃ.ʃat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of رَشَّ (rašša)

Persian

Etymology 1

Compare روز (ruz) and روشن (rošan). All from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roʃt/

Adjective

رشت • (rošt)

1. bright

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ræʃt/

Proper noun

رشت • (Rašt)

1. Rasht (a city in Iran)

Descendants

• English: Rasht

Etymology 3

Akin to Old Armenian երաշտ (erašt, “dry; drought”), an Iranian borrowing.

Adjective

رشت • (rašt)

1. very dry

Noun

رشت • (rašt)

1. earth, dust

Further reading

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