مشت

See also: مست

Arabic

Verb

مَشَتْ • (mašat) (form I) /ma.ʃat/

1. third-person feminine singular past active of مَشَى (mašā)

Mazanderani

Adjective

مشت (mašt)

1. full

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مشت (mušt, “fist, punch”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwšt' /⁠mušt⁠/, “fist”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *muštíš (“fist”).

Noun

مشت • (muşt) (definite accusative مشتی (muştu), plural مشتلر (muştlar))

1. fist, a hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward against the palm

   Synonym: یومروق (yumruk)

2. punch, box, a blow, hit, or strike made using the hand closed into a fist

   Synonym: یومروق (yumruk)

Descendants

• Turkish: muşt

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “muşt2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3320
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “muşt”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 824
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مشت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1171
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pugnus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4672
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مشت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4700
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مشت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1864

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mwšt' /⁠mušt⁠/, “fist”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *muštíš (“fist”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬌 (mušti) and Sanskrit मुष्टि (muṣṭi). Also compare Old Armenian մշտիկ (mštik), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

مشت • (mošt)

1. fist
2. punch
3. handful

Descendants

• → Classical Azerbaijani: müşt
• → Middle Georgian: მუშტი (mušṭi)
  • → Armenian: մուշտի (mušti)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مشت (muşt)
  • Turkish: muşt

Etymology 2

Adjective

مشت • (mašt) (comparative مشت‌تَر (mašt-tar), superlative مشت‌تَرین (mašt-tarin))

1. plentiful
2. (dialectal, Kazerun) thick, dense