See also: کاشتن

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *kas- (to be small, diminish, lessen), of uncertain further origin; compare perhaps German hager (gaunt) and Lithuanian kašėti (to lessen, become thin, dry, weaken).[1][2] Cognate with که (keh, small), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬯𐬫𐬀𐬵 (kasyah, smaller, lesser), Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ks, small(er), less(er), young(er)), Nayini käs (small), Bactrian κισατο (kisato, least, youngest), Baluchi [script needed] (kisān, kasān, small), Sanskrit कशु (kaśu, a name denoting 'the Small One'), and Old Armenian կէս (kēs, half; in part), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? kāstan
Dari reading? kāstan
Iranian reading? kâstan
Tajik reading? kostan

Verb edit

Dari کاستن
Iranian Persian
Tajik костан

کاستن (kâstan) (present stem کاه (kâh))

  1. to decrease

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Antonyms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 247
  2. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 331–337