ستون

سِتّ (sitt, “six”) +‎ ـُون (-ūn)

• IPA^(key): /sit.tuː.na/

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) m or f (oblique سِتِّينَ (sittīna))

1. sixty

• سِتِّينِيّ (sittīniyy)

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) (feminine سِتُّونَ (sittūna))

1. sixtieth

   اَلصَّفْحَةُ السِّتُّونَ ― aṣ-ṣafḥatu s-sittūna ― the sixtieth page

Borrowed from Persian ستون (sotun, “column”).

• IPA^(key): /syˈtun/

ستون • (sütun)

1. column, pillar, pilaster, post

   Synonyms: دستك (destek), دیرك (direk), عمود (ʿamud)

2. (figurative) prop, support
3. pole, stick of timber, mast

   Synonym: (mast) دیرك (direk)

4. column in a newspaper or in a text

• ستونه (sütune, “anything comparable to a column”)

• Turkish: sütun

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sütun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4402
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ستون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 666
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columna”, 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 206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ستون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2553
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sütun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ستون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1040

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stwn'), 𐫙𐫘𐫤𐫇𐫗 (ʿstwn /⁠stūn⁠/, “column, pillar”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎬𐎢𐎴𐎠 (stūnā, “column, pillar”), from Proto-Iranian *stuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬏𐬥𐬀 (stūna)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Sanskrit स्थूणा (sthūṇā)).

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [sʊˈtʰuːn]
  • (Dialectal) IPA^(key): [seˈtʰuːn]

ستون • (sotun) (plural ستون‌ها (sotun-hâ))

1. column, pillar

• → Hindustani:
  • Urdu: ستون (sutūn, sitūn)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ستون (sütün)
  • Turkish: sütun
• → Turkmen: sütün

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “stūn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Classical Persian ستون (sutūn).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sʊ.t̪uːn/

ستون • (sutūn, satūn) m (Hindi spelling सतून)

1. pillar, support, column, prop, beam
2. obelisk,

• “ستون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ستون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.