ستاره

Borrowed from Persian ستاره‎ (setâre, “star; fate”).

ستاره • (sitare) (plural ستاره‌گان‎)

1. (astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma

   Synonyms: اختر‎ (ahter), نجم‎ (necm), یلدز‎ (yıldız)

2. (figuratively) one's star, fortune, fate, chance, destiny

   Synonym: اختر‎ (ahter)

• Turkish: sitare

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sitare2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4265
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ستاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 665
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Stella”, 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 1595
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ستاره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2547
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ستاره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1039

• ستار‎ (satâr, setâr), استاره‎ (estâre)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (stʾlk' /stārag/), [script needed] (stl /star/), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎫𐎼 (star-), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hstā́, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognate with English star.

• Rhymes: -e

• Iranian phonetic transcription: IPA^(key): [set̪ʰɒːˈɾe]

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ستارگان‎ (setâregân)

ستاره • (setâre) (plural ستارگان‎ (setâregân) or ستاره‌ها‎ (setâre-hâ))

1. star
   • 1985, قیصر امینپور (Qeysar Aminpour), “شعری برای جنگ”, in تنفس صبح:

     ‏دیگر ستارگان را حتی هیچ اعتماد نیست. شاید ستاره‌ها شبگردهای دشمن ما باشند.‎‎

     digar setâregân-râ hattâ hič e'temâd nist. šâyad setâre--hâ šabgard-hâ-ye došman-e mâ bâšand.

     Even the stars are no longer reliable. Perhaps the stars are our enemy's night patrols.

2. fate, destiny
3. star (actors, athletes, etc.)
4. asterisk, the symbol "*"
5. (archaic) spark
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 384:

     ‏بس ستاره‌ی آتش از آهن جهید، و ان دل سوزیده پذرفت و کشید‎

     bas setâre-ye âtaš az âhan jahid, v-ân del-e suzide pazroft o kašid

     Many a spark of fire shot forth from the iron, and that burning heart received and drew [them] in.

The plural ستارگان‎ (setâregân) is used for astronomical stars, sparks, etc., but not for human "stars" or asterisks.

• Bengali: সেতার (setar)
• Urdu: ستارہ‎ (sitāra)

ستاره • (setâre)

1. a female given name, Setareh, from Middle Persian

• اختر‎ (axtar)
• کوکب‎ (kowkab)