بستر

See also: تشتر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بستر (bestar).

Noun

بستر • (bister)

  1. bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep
    Synonym: یاتاق (yatak)
  2. (in general) anything spread out on which one may lie or sleep
    Synonyms: مرقد (merkad), مهاد (mihad), یاتاق (yatak)

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bister”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 627
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 929
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بستر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 818
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بستر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 364

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wstl /⁠wistar⁠/, “bedding”), from Proto-Iranian *Habí (“to, for”) + *starH- (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰí (“to, for”) + Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, stretch out”).[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [bɪs.t̪ʰäɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [bɪs.t̪ʰäɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [bis.t̪ʰäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? bistar
Dari reading? bistar
Iranian reading? bestar
Tajik reading? bistar

Noun
Dari بستر
Iranian Persian
Tajik бистар

بِسْتَر • (bestar)

  1. bed; mattress
  2. bedding
  3. floor

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: बिस्तर (bistar)
    Urdu: بِسْتَر (bistar)
  • Ottoman Turkish: بستر (bister)
  • → Punjabi:
    Shahmukhi script: بستر (bistar)
    Gurmukhi script: ਬਿਸਤਰ (bistar)
  • Urdu: بستر (bistar)

References
  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian بِسْتَر (bistar).

Pronunciation

Noun

بِسْتَر • (bistar) m (Hindi spelling बिस्तर)

  1. bed, mattress
  2. bedding
  3. pillow
  4. carpet
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