See also: -stan

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).

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preceding vowel
A / I E / Ə / İ O / U Ö / Ü
-ıstan -istan -ustan -üstan

-istan

  1. -stan

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Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Compare Persian ـِستَان (-estân), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam (act of standing; place), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂nom, derived from the root *steh₂- (to stand).

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-istan f (Arabic spelling ـستان)

  1. Used to form feminine nouns of regions and countries
    kurd (Kurd) + ‎-istan → ‎Kurdistan (the Middle Eastern region of Kurdistan)
  2. Used to form feminine collective nouns, meaning “a place in which to find a great quantity of the object expressed by the root noun”
    dar (tree) + ‎-istan → ‎daristan (forest)

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـستان (-istan), from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).

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-istan

  1. -stan
  2. (dialectal) a diminutive suffix
    Synonym: -cık

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Turkmen

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).

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-istan

  1. -stan

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