پستان

See also: بستان‎ and تستأن‎

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (pystʾn' /pestān/), from Proto-Iranian *pstānáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pstānás, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pston-ó-s, from *pstḗn (“breast”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /pisˈtɔn/

Noun
Dari پستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik пистон (piston)

پستان • (pestân) (plural پستان‌ها‎ (pestân-hâ))

  1. (anatomy) breast
  2. (anatomy) udder

Synonyms
  • پستانک‎ (pestânak, “pacifier”)
  • پستان‌بند‎ (pestân band, “bra”)
  • پستان‌دار‎ (pestân-dâr, “mammal”)
  • نوکِ پستان‎ (nok-e pestân, “nipple”)
  • سرطانِ پستان‎ (saratân-e pestân, “breast cancer”)
  • نارپستان‎ (nâr-pestân)
  • سیاه‌پستان‎ (siyâh-pestân)
  • فسرده‌پستان‎ (fesorde-pestân)

See also

Urdu
پِستان

Etymology
PIE word
*pstḗn

Borrowed from Classical Persian پستان‎ (pistān, “breast; udder”).

Pronunciation

Noun

پستان • (pistān) m (Hindi spelling पिस्तान)

  1. breast; bust
    ‏لڑکیوں کے لئے پستان کا ابهار، جوانی کے آغاز کا حصّہ ہے۔‎‎
    Laṛkiyõ ke liye pistān kā ubhār, javānī ke āġāz kā hissā hai.
    For girls, the emergence of breasts is part of the onset of adolescence.
  2. bosom
  3. udder, dug

Derived terms
  • پِسْتانیَہ‎ (pistāniya, “mammal”)
  • سَرِ پِسْتان‎ (sar-e-pistān, “nipple”, literally “head of the breast”)

References
  • “پستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “پستان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “پستان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • “پستان”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
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