رشته

See also: رستہ, رشتہ, and رشتة

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (lštk' /⁠rištag⁠/),[1] from *rišt- (“to twist”, whence Classical Persian رشتن (rištan, “to twist, to spin”)) + -ag. The former is from Proto-Iranian *wrais- (“to turn, to spin”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *wriḱ-yé-ti (“to twist, to bend”).[2] Compare Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬯𐬌𐬀 (uruuisia, “to turn”), German reihen (“to sew loosely”), Latin rīca (“veil”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [rɪʃ.t̪ʰǽ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [rɪʃ.t̪ʰǽ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [riʃ.t̪ʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading? rišta
Dari reading? rišta
Iranian reading? rešte
Tajik reading? rišta
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Noun

رشته • (rešte) (plural رشته‌ها (rešte-hâ))

  1. thread, string
    رشته مروارید ― rešte-ye morvârid ― string of pearls
    رشته نخ ― rešte-ye nax ― thread of string
    1. (figurative) series, sequence, string
      رشته دروغ ― rešte-ye doruğ ― string of lies
    2. mountain range
    3. (computing) string
  2. field of study; subject
    متخصص در رشته‌های مختلف
    motaxasses dar rešte-hâ-ye moxtalef
    specialist in various fields
  3. tie, bond (between people)
  4. reshte (Persian-style noodles); (loosely) noodles (in general)

Descendants

  • → Armenian: արիշտա (arišta), էրիշտա (ērišta), արշտա (aršta), ռշտա (ṙšta)
  • → Azerbaijani: əriştə
  • → Crimean Tatar: erişte
  • → Libyan Arabic: رشتة
  • → Hindi: रिश्ता (riśtā)
  • → Northern Kurdish: herişte, rişte
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਰਿਸ਼ਤਾ (riśtā)
    Shahmukhi script: رشتہ (riśtā)
  • → Turkish: erişte

References

  1. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “rištag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  2. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437
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