داستان

Persian

Pronunciation

(phonemic)

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /dɔsˈtɔn/

(phonetic)

Noun
Dari داستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik достон (doston)

داستان • (dâstân) (plural داستان‌ها‎ (dâstân-hâ))

  1. tale, story
    Synonym: قصه‎ (qesse)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 694—695:
      ‏آمدیم اندر تمامی داستان / وز وفاداری جمع راستان‌ / کز پس این پیشوا برخاستند / بر مقامش نایبی می‌خواستند‎
      âmadim andar tamâmi dâstân / v-az vafâdâri-ye jam'-e râstân / k-az pas-e in pišvâ bar-xâstand / bar maqâm-aš nâ'ib-i mi-xâstand
      We come [now] to complete the tale and [speak] of the loyalty of the multitude of the righteous, who rose up after [the death of] this leader, demanding a vicar in his place.

Derived terms
  • داستان سرا‎ (dâstân-sarâ, “storyteller”)
  • داستان نویس‎ (dâstân-nevis, “storywriter”)
  • داستان کوتاه‎ (dâstân-e kutâh, “short story”)

Descendants

Urdu

Alternative forms
  • داستاں‎ (dāstā̃)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian داستان‎ (dāstān).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/
  • (Deccani) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/
  • (poetic) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑ̃ː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɑ̃ː

Noun

داسْتان • (dāstān) f (Hindi spelling दास्तान)

  1. story
  2. tale
  3. narrative

Synonyms

References
  • “داستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “داستان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

Uyghur

Etymology

Compare Persian داستان‎.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɑstɑn/

Noun

داستان • (dastan) (plural داستانلار‎ (dastanlar))

  1. tale; long poem

See also
  • 達斯坦／达斯坦 (dásītǎn)
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