pstk'

Middle Persian edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

pstk' • (pistag)

(Book Pahlavi) pistachio nut

Descendants edit

taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian

Persian: پسته (peste)
- → Azerbaijani: püstə
- → Bengali: পেস্তা (pesta)
- → Georgian: ფისტა (pisṭa)
- → Gujarati: પિસ્તા (pistā)
- → Hindustani: pistā
  - Hindi: पिस्ता
  - Urdu: پستہ
- → Kazakh: пісте (pıste)
- → Khalaj: pistə
- → Marathi: पिस्ता (pistā)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پسته (piste)
- → Pashto: پسته (pistá)
- → Punjabi:
  Gurmukhi script: ਪਿਸਤਾ (pistā)
  Shahmukhi script: پستا (pistā)
- → Sindhi: پستو (pisto)
- → Tatar: пестә (pestä)
- → Uzbek: pista
→ Ancient Greek: πιστάκη (pistákē)
- ⇒ Ancient Greek: πιστάκιον (pistákion) (see there for further descendants)
→ Arabic: فُسْتُق (fustuq)
- Maltese: fosdoq
- → Middle Armenian: ֆստուխ (fstux)
  - Armenian: ֆստըխ (fstəx), ֆըստըխ (fəstəx), ֆստխ (fstx), ֆստուղ (fstuġ), ֆստուխ (fstux), փստուղ (pʻstuġ), փստուխ (pʻstux)
- → Old Catalan: festuchs, festuch, festuc
  - Catalan: festuc
- → Spanish: alfóncigo, alfónsigo, alfóstiga
- → Middle French: festuce, festue
- → Old Occitan: festuc
  - →⇒ Old Occitan: fustet
    - Occitan: fustet
    - → Middle French: fustet, fustel, fustec, fustot
      - French: fustet, fustel, fustic, fustoc
        → English: fustet, fustic, fustoc
        → German: Fustet, Fustic, Fustetholz, Fusticholz, Fisetholz
        → Spanish: fustoc
    - → Piedmontese: fustot
- → Persian: فستق (fostoq, fostaq)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: فستق (fıstık)
    - Turkish: fıstık
    - → Albanian: fistik, fëstëk
    - → Belarusian: фісташка (fistaška) (influenced by French pistache)
    - → Bulgarian: фъстъ́к (fǎstǎ́k)
    - → Crimean Tatar: fıstıq
    - → English: fistichnut, fisticknut, fistinut
    - → Middle French: fistique
    - → Greek: φιστίκι (fistíki)
    - → Ladino: fustuk
    - → Macedonian: фастак (fastak), ф’стак (f’stak)
    - → Portuguese: fistico
    - → Romanian: fistic
    - → Russian: фиста́шка (fistáška)
      - → Armenian: ֆիստաշկա (fistaška)
      - → Bashkir: фисташка (fistaşka)
      - → Georgian: ფისტაშკა (pisṭašḳa) (informal)
      - → Polish: fistaszek
      - → Yiddish: פֿיסטאַשקע (fistashke)
    - → Ukrainian: фіста́шка (fistáška) (influenced by French pistache)
- → Portuguese: alfóstico, alfóstigo, fóstico
- → Swahili: fistiki
→ Aramaic:
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פיסתקא (pistəqā), פסתקא (pistəqā)

Classical Syriac: ܦܘܣܬܩܐ (pustəqā), ܦܷܣܬܩܐ (pestəqā)
→ Old Armenian: պիստակ (pistak), պստակ (pstak)
- Armenian: պիստակ (pistak)

References edit

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պիստակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 85ab
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pistag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 69
Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1664, page 133b