دستان

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [das.tɑːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɑːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɑːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɔːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æs.t̪ʰɒːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɔn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dastān
Dari reading^?	dastān
Iranian reading^?	dastân
Tajik reading^?	daston


Iranian Persian	دستان
Dari	دستان
Tajik	дастон

Noun

دستان • (dastân)

story, romance, fable
slyness, cunning
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 147:
  خود گرفتی این عصا در دست راست
  دست را دستان موسی از کجاست‏
  xwad giriftī īn 'asā dar dast rāst
  dast rā dastān-i Mūsa az kujāst
  (Suppose that) thou hast grasped this rod firmly in thy hand:
  whence will accrue to thy hand the cunning of Moses?”

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دستان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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