پوستین

Persian

Etymology

پوست (pust, “skin”) +‎ ـین (-in), from Middle Persian [script needed] (pwstyn' /⁠pōstēn⁠/, “made of leather”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [poːs.teːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰiːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰiːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰiːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰʊːs.t̪ʰin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰuːs.t̪ʰiːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɵs.t̪ʰin]

Readings
Classical reading?	pōstēn
Dari reading?	pōstīn
Iranian reading?	pustin
Tajik reading?	püstin

Noun

پوستین • (pustin)

1. winter fur or leather coat
   • c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Rubaʿī 18”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎^[1]:

     آن ماه که گفتی ملک رحمانست
     این بار اگرش نگه کنی شیطانست
     رویی که چو آتش به زمستان خوش بود
     امروز چو پوستین به تابستانست

     ān māh ki guftī malak-i rahmān ast
     īn bār agar-aš nigah kunī šaytān ast
     rōyē ki čō ātiš ba zimistān xwaš būd
     imrōz čō pōstēn ba tābistān ast

     That beauty whom you said was the angel of the Lord:
     If you see him this time, he is the Devil!
     That face which was pleasant like fire in winter,
     Is today like a fur coat in summer.

     (Classical Persian transliteration.)
     (The poem references the growth of facial hair, which spoils the beauty of the adolescent male beloved.)

Adjective

پوستین • (pustin)

1. (obsolete) made of leather