पुश्त

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پشت (pušt), from Proto-Iranian *pr̥štáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pr̥štʰás (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European pr̥-sth₂-ós, from *per- + *steh₂- + *-ós. Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬙𐬀 (paršta), Sanskrit पृष्ठ (pṛṣṭha). Doublet of पृष्ठ (pŕṣṭh)

Noun

पुश्त • (puśt) f (Urdu spelling پشت)

1. the back
2. generation, descent, extraction
3. rearguard
4. back (of a chair)

Declension

Declension of पुश्त (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	पुश्त puśt	पुश्तें puśtẽ
oblique	पुश्त puśt	पुश्तों puśtõ
vocative	पुश्त puśt	पुश्तो puśto

Related terms

• पुश्तैनी (puśtainī, “ancestral”)
• पुश्तनामा (puśtanāmā, “genealogy”)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पुश्त”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press