آبستن

Khalaj

Adjective

آبِستَن (âbistən)

1. Arabic spelling of âbistən (“pregnant”)

Persian

Alternative forms

• اوسن (owsan) (dialectal, Khesht, Konartakhteh)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾpwstn' /⁠ābustan, ābistan⁠/), from [script needed] (ʾpws /⁠ābus⁠/, “pregnant”), from Proto-Iranian *āpuθra- (“pregnant”), from *puθráh (“son”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (“boy; son”), from Proto-Indo-European *putlós.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.βis.tan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰän]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰän]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰän]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.bis.t̪ʰän]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.bes.t̪ʰæn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.bis.t̪ʰän]

Readings
Classical reading?	āḇistan
Dari reading?	ābistan
Iranian reading?	âbestan
Tajik reading?	obistan

Adjective

Dari	آبستن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	обистан

آبستن • (âbestan)

1. (formal) pregnant

   Synonyms: (colloquial) حامله (hâmele), باردار (bârdâr)

Inflection

Predicative forms of آبستن (âbestan)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	آبستنم (âbestanam)	آبستنیم (âbestanim)
2nd person (“you are”)	آبستنی (âbestani)	آبستنید (âbestanid) آبستنین △ (âbestanin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	آبستن است (âbestan ast) آبستنه △ (âbestane)	آبستنند (âbestanand) آبستنن △ (âbestanan)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• آبستنی (âbestani)

Descendants

• → Gujarati: આબિસ્તા (ābistā)
• → Khalaj: âbistən