ـستان

See also: شبان, ستان, and -stan

Northern Kurdish

Suffix

ـستان (-istan or -stan) f

1. Arabic spelling of -istan
2. Arabic spelling of -stan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـستان (-istān). By surface analysis, suffix form of ستان (sitan, “place where something abounds”).

Suffix

ـستان • (-istan)

1. -stan

Derived terms

Ottoman Turkish terms suffixed with ـستان

Descendants

• Turkish: -istan

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1039

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian -stʾn' (-estān), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n /⁠stāna⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *stā́nam (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬁𐬥𐬀 (stāna)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्थान (sthāna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [.ʔis.ˈtɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [.ʔɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [.ʔɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [.ʔɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [.ʔis.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [.ʔes.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [.ʔis.t̪ʰɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?
Dari reading?
Iranian reading?
Tajik reading?

Suffix

Dari	ـِستَان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	-истон

ـِستَان • (-estân)

1. -istan, -estan, -stan

Derived terms

Persian terms suffixed with ـستان

Descendants

• Dari: ـستان (-istân)
• Iranian Persian: ـستان (-estân)
• Tajik: -истон (-iston)
• → Armenian: -ստան (-stan)
• → Assamese: -স্তান (-stan)
• → Azerbaijani: -istan
• → Bashkir: -стан (-stan)
• → Bengali: -স্তান (-stan)
• → Chagatai: ـستان
  • Uyghur: ـىستان (-istan)
  • Uzbek: -iston
• → English: -stan
• → Georgian: -სტანი (-sṭani)
• → Gujarati: -સ્તાન (-stān)
• → Hindi: -स्तान (-stān)
• → Kazakh: -стан (-stan)
• → Kyrgyz: -стан (-stan)
• → Malayalam: -സ്ഥാന് (-sthānŭ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ـستان (-istan)
  • Turkish: -istan
• → Punjabi: -ਸਤਾਨ (-satān)
• → Tamil: -ஸ்தான் (-stāṉ)
• → Tatar: -стан (-stan)
• → Turkmen: -istan
• → Urdu: سِتان (sítan, -stan)