آستین

See also: اسپین

Persian

Etymology

First attested in Firdawsī, 1010 AD.

Of unknown etymology due to not having any clear cognates, but potentially borrowed from Southeastern Iranian; Herzenberg compares Pashto لستوڼي (lastúṇay, “sleeve”) which is related to Pashto لاس (lás, “hand”) with a /d-/ > /l-/ sound shift in some Eastern Iranian languages, then cites some dialectal Persian terms borrowed from Pashto or a related language where the initial /l-/ has been dropped.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːs.tiːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːs.t̪ʰiːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːs.t̪ʰiːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːs.t̪ʰiːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔːs.t̪ʰin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒːs.t̪ʰiːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔs.t̪ʰin]

Readings
Classical reading?	āstīn
Dari reading?	āstīn
Iranian reading?	âstin
Tajik reading?	ostin

Noun

Dari	آستین
Iranian Persian
Tajik	остин

آستین • (âstin)

1. sleeve
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 392”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[2]:

     ترسم کز این چمن نبری آستین گل
     کز گلشنش تحمل خاری نمی‌کنی

     tarsam k-az īn čaman na-barī āstīn-i gul
     k-az gulšan-aš tahammul-i xārē na-mē-kunī

     I fear that you will not bring a sleeveful of roses from this meadow
     Because you cannot bear a single thorn from its rose fields.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

• → Bengali: আস্তিন (astin)
• → Gujarati: આસ્તીન (āstīn)
• → Urdu: آستین (āstīn)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian آستین (āstīn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːs.t̪iːn/

Noun

آستین • (āstīn) f (Hindi spelling आस्तीन)

1. sleeve

Declension

Declension of آستین
	singular	plural
direct	آستین (āstīn)	آستینیں (āstīnẽ)
oblique	آستین (āstīn)	آستینوں (āstīnõ)
vocative	آستین (āstīn)	آستینو (āstīno)

Derived terms

• آسْتِینِ شَمْع (āstīn-e-šam', “sleeve of a lamp”)
• آستین میں چُھری رَکھنا (āstīn mẽ churī rakhnā, “[to be] ready for an attack”, literally “to have a dagger in the sleeve”)
• آسْتِین کا سانپ (āstīn kā samp, “wolf in sheep's clothing”, literally “snake in the sleeve”)
• نِیمَہ آستِین (nīma-āstīn, “half-sleeved tunic”)
  • نِیم آستِین (nīm-āstīn)
• فَراخ آسْتِین (farāx-āstīn, “generous”)

References

• “آستین”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آستین”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “آستین”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.