مست

See also: مشت

Arabic

Verb

مست (form I)

1. مَسَّتْ (massat) /mas.sat/: third-person feminine singular past active of مَسَّ (massa)
2. مُسَّتْ (mussat) /mus.sat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of مَسَّ (massa)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مست (mest).

Noun

مست • (mast, mest, mist) m (plural مسوت (mesut)) (obsolete)

1. inner shoes, slippers, chaussons

References

• Berggren, Jakob (1844) “botte”, in Guide français-arabe vulgaire des voyageurs et des Francs en Syrie et en Égypte, avec carte physique et géographique de la Syrie et plan géométrique de Jérusalem ancien et moderne. Comme supplément aux Voyages en Orient‎^[1] (in French), Uppsala^→: Leffler et Sebell, column 119
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مست”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 588b
• Wetzstein, Johann Gottfried (1857) “Der Markt in Damaskus”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 11, page 484

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian مست (mast).

Adjective

مست • (mest)

1. drunk, boozy (also figurative)

Descendants

• Turkish: mest

Etymology 2

From Arabic مِسْح (misḥ, “haircloth”).

Noun

مست • (mest)

1. moccasin

Descendants

• Turkish: mest
• → Egyptian Arabic: مز (mizz, mazz), مزد (mizd, mazd)
• → North Levantine Arabic: مست (mist, mast)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1059
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 4613

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭮𐭲 (mst /⁠mast⁠/, “drunk, bemused”). From Proto-Indo-Iranian *matˢtás (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Sanskrit मत्त (matta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mast]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæst̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

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

Adjective

مست • (mast)

1. drunk, intoxicated, inebriated
2. (literary) in rut; (of elephants) in musth
   • 10th century, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh [The Book of Kings]:

     براسبش بکردار پیلان مَست
     گرفت آن زمان پَالَهَنگش بدست

     bar asb-aš bekerdâr-e pilân-e mast
     gereft ân zamân pâlahang-aš be dast

     He grasped the rein of his horse like an elephant in musth.

Derived terms

• سرمست (sarmast)
• مستانی (mastâni)
• مستی (masti)

 

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: məst
• → Bengali: মস্ত (mosto)
• → English: musth
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मस्त (mast)

  Urdu: مست (mast)

• → Kazakh: мас (mas)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸਤ (mast)

  Shahmukhi script: مست (mast)

Noun

مست • (mast)

1. drunk; drunkard
2. (figurative) person who is intoxicated with or overcome with love for God; Sufi

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [must]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [must̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [most̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [must̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	must
Dari reading?	must
Iranian reading?	most
Tajik reading?	must

Noun

مست • (most)

1. distress
2. need
3. complaint

Derived terms

• مستمند (mostmand)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مست (mast).

Adjective

مست • (mast) (Hindi spelling मस्त)

1. drunk
2. intoxicated
3. lustful

Synonyms

• مت (matt)

Related terms

• مستی (mastī)

Noun

مست • (mast) m (Hindi spelling मस्त)

1. drunkard
2. madman

Synonyms

• مت (matt)