خجسته

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xu.d͡ʒas.ta]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊ.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xu.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xo.d͡ʒæs.t̪ʰe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χu.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]

Readings
Classical reading?	xujasta
Dari reading?	xujasta
Iranian reading?	xojaste
Tajik reading?	xujasta

Dari	خجسته
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хуҷаста

Adjective

خجسته • (xojaste)

1. fortunate, auspicious
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3831:

     بس خجسته معصیت کان کرد مرد
     نی ز خاری بر دمد اوراق ورد

     bas xujasta ma'siyat kān kard mard
     nay za xārī bar damad awrāq ward

     Very fortunate the sin which the man committed:
     do not rose-leaves spring from a thorn?

Derived terms

• خجستگی (xojastegi, “auspiciousness”)

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خجسته”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim