رستم

Persian

Dari رستم
Iranian Persian
Tajik Рустам
رستم در حال کشتن اژدها (rostam dar hâl-e koštan-e aždahâ, “Rostam slaying the dragon”)

Etymology

From Middle Persian lwtsthm (/⁠rōdstahm⁠/), from Middle Persian lwd (/⁠rōd⁠/, “river”, whence modern رود (rud)) and stʾhmb (/⁠stahm⁠/, “force, power”, whence ستم (setam, “injustice, tyranny”)), i.e. “strong as a river”. Akin to Old Armenian Առոստոմ (Aṙostom), Ռոստոմ (Ṙostom), Ռաստոմ (Ṙastom), from Middle Iranian.

Firdawsī’s great epic, the Shāhnāma, gives the name a folk etymology from رستم (rastam, “I escaped”), because the hero was born by Caesarean section.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [rʊs.t̪ʰǽm]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [rʊs.t̪ʰǽm]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [rus.t̪ʰǽm]

Readings
Classical reading? rustam
Dari reading? rustam
Iranian reading? rostam
Tajik reading? rustam

Proper noun

رستم • (rostam)

  1. (Iranian mythology) Rostam, the greatest hero of Iranian mythology
  2. a male given name, Rostam or Rustam, from Middle Persian

Derived terms

  • رستم‌پور (rostam-pur)

Descendants

  • → Arabic: رُسْتُم (rustum)
  • → Azerbaijani: Rüstəm
  • → Bashkir: Рөстәм (Röstəm)
  • → Chagatai: رستم (Rustäm)
    • Uyghur: رۇستەم (rustem)
    • Uzbek: Rustam
  • → Georgian: როსტომი (rosṭomi)
  • → Gujarati: રૂસ્તમ (rūstam), રુસ્તમ (rustam)
  • → Hindustani: rustam
    Hindi: रुस्तम
    Urdu: رستم
  • → Kazakh: Рүстем (Rüstem)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: رستم (Rüstem)
    • Turkish: Rüstem
    • → Albanian: Rustem
    • → Russian: Рустем (Rustem)
  • → Tatar: Рөстәм (Röstäm)
  • → Turkmen: Rüstem

Noun

رستم • (rostam)

  1. (figurative) great hero

Urdu

Pronunciation

Noun

رستم • (rustam) m (Hindi spelling रुस्तम)

  1. knight, champion
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