مشته

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian *muštak, whence Arabic مُسْتَقَة (mustaqa) and Middle Armenian մուշտակ (muštak). Perhaps a derivative of Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšt' /⁠mušt⁠/, “fist”).

Noun

مشته • (mošta)

1. fur garment with long sleeves

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: مشته (müşte, “a kind of garment made of hair”)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մուշտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 361
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 176a
• Fīrūzābādī (1834) Al-uqiyānūs al-basīt‎^[2], 2nd edition, volume II, translated from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish by Aḥmad ʻĀṣim, Constantinople, page 924
• Justi, Ferdinand (1901) “Mütze und Verwantes”, in Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum‎^[3], volume 45, pages 420–426
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1520, page 122