بوستان

See also: توستان

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • بوصتان (bostan)

Etymology

From Persian بوستان (bôstân).

Noun

بوستان • (bostan)

  1. garden; garden patch, garden bed

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Turkish: bostan
  • → Albanian: bostan
  • → Aromanian: bustane
  • → Bulgarian: боста́н (bostán)
  • → Byzantine Greek: μποστάνι (mpostáni)
    • Greek: μποστάνι (bostáni)
  • → Crimean Tatar: bostan
  • → Ladino: bostan, bustan
  • → Macedonian: бостан (bostan)
  • → Romanian: bostan, bostană
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

References
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 923

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwdstʾn'), 𐫁𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗 (bwystʾn), 𐫁𐫇𐫏𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗 (bwyystʾn /⁠bōyestān⁠/, “(flower) garden”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫁𐫇𐫅𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗 (bwdystʾn /⁠bōδestān⁠/), Sogdian [script needed] (βōδistān, “garden”) and Iranian borrowings Aramaic בּוּסְתְּנָא (būstenā), Classical Syriac ܒܘܣܬܢܐ (būstānā), Old Armenian բուրաստան (burastan).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [boːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [boːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bʊːs.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? bōstān
Dari reading? bōstān
Iranian reading? bustân
Tajik reading? büston

Noun

بوستان • (bôstân) (plural بوستان‌ها (bôstân-hâ))

  1. garden

Derived terms
  • بوستانبان (bôstânbân)
  • بوستانی (bôstâni)

Descendants

References
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 471
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bōyestān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Uyghur
Other scripts
Perso-Arabic بوستان
Latin ‍bostan‍
Cyrillic бостан

Etymology

From Persian بوستان (bôstân).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bostɑn/

Noun

بوستان • (bostan) (plural بوستانلار (bostanlar))

  1. grove, garden, oasis

Further reading
  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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