پستان

See also: بستان and تستأن

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (pystʾn' /⁠pestān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *pstānáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pstānás, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pston-ó-s, from *pstḗn (“breast”).

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

Readings
Classical reading? pistān
Dari reading? pistān
Iranian reading? pestân
Tajik reading? piston

Noun
Dari پستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik пистон

پستان • (pestân) (plural پستان‌ها (pestân-hâ))

  1. breast; teat; udder
    Synonyms: (more polite) سینه (sine), (vulgar) مَمِه (mame)
    • 1963, Forugh Farrokhzad, “معشوق من”, in تولدی دیگر [Another Birth]‎:
      معشوق من
      انسان ساده‌ایست
      انسان ساده‌ای که من او را
      در سرزمین شوم عجایب
      چون آخرین نشانهٔ یک مذهب شگفت
      در لابلای بوتهٔ پستانهایم
      پنهان نموده‌ام
      ma'šuq-e man
      ensân-e sâde'i-st
      ensân-e sâde'i-st ke man u râ
      dar sarzamin-e šum-e ajâyeb
      čon âxarin nešâne-ye yek mazhab-e šegeft
      dar lâbelâ-ye bute-ye pestânhâ-yam
      penhân namude-am
      My lover
      Is a simple person
      A simple person whom I
      Have hidden
      In the folds of the thicket of my breasts
      Like the final oracle of a religion of wonders
      In a strange and ill-fortuned land

Derived terms
  • سرطانِ پستان (saratân-e pestân, “breast cancer”)
  • سیاه‌پستان (siyâh-pestân)
  • فسرده‌پستان (fesorde-pestân)
  • نارپستان (nâr-pestân)
  • نوکِ پستان (nowk-e pestân, “nipple”)
  • پستانک (pestânak, “pacifier”)
  • پستانی (pestâni)
  • پستان‌بند (pestân-band, “bra”)
  • پستان‌دار (pestân-dâr, “mammal”)

Descendants
  • → Hindustani: pistān
    Hindi: पिस्तान
    Urdu: پِستان
  • Ottoman Turkish: پِستان (pistân)

Urdu
پِستان

Etymology
PIE word
*pstḗn

Borrowed from Classical Persian پستان (pistān, “breast; udder”).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pɪs.t̪ɑːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn
  • Hyphenation: پِس‧تان

Noun

پِسْتان • (pistān) m (Hindi spelling पिस्तान)

  1. breast; bust
    لڑکیوں کے لئے پستان کا ابهار، جوانی کے آغاز کا حصّہ ہے۔
    Laṛkiyõ ke liye pistān kā ubhār, javānī ke āġāz kā hissā hai.
    For girls, the emergence of breasts is part of the onset of adolescence.
  2. bosom
  3. udder, dug

Derived terms
  • پِسْتانیَہ (pistāniya, “mammal”)
  • سَرِ پِسْتان (sar-e-pistān, “nipple”, literally “head of the breast”)

References
  • “پستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پستان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “پستان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “پستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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