πιστάκη

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Of Iranian origin. Compare Northern Kurdish pisteq, Persian پسته (pesta, peste), Middle Persian pstk' (pistag, pistachio nut), Old Armenian պիստակ (pistak) (from Iranian).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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πῐστᾰ́κη (pistákēf (genitive πῐστᾰ́κης); first declension

  1. pistachio-tree (Pistacia vera)

Inflection

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πιστάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1197

Further reading

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