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خشت

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Noun

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خِشت (xişt) (definite accusative خِشتی, plural خِشتلَر)

  1. Arabic spelling of xişt (brick, bar, ingot)

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xišt
Dari reading? xišt
Iranian reading? xešt
Tajik reading? xišt

Etymology 1

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See Old Armenian աշտեայ (ašteay).

Noun

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خِشْت (xešt) (plural خشت‌ها (xešt-hâ))

  1. (archaic) javelin, dart, spear, halberd, poleaxe
Descendants
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  • Old Armenian: խիշտ (xišt)
    • Armenian: խիշտ (xišt)
  • Georgian: ხიშტი (xišṭi)
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (hšt' /⁠xišt⁠/, brick), from Old Persian 𐎡𐏁𐎫𐎡 (i-š-t-i /⁠išti-⁠/, sun-dried brick), possibly borrowed from the BMAC substrate.[1][2] Cognate with Avestan 𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌𐬌𐬀 (ištiia, brick), 𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌 (išti), 𐬰𐬆𐬨𐬋𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬎𐬎𐬀 (zəmōištuua, clay brick), Sanskrit इष्टका (iṣṭakā, brick), Tocharian B iścem (clay), Pashto خښته (ḵẖaś̱ẖtaʿh), and possibly Parthian 𐫍𐫏𐫢𐫎𐫏𐫃 (hyšṯyg, brick).

Noun

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خِشْت (xešt) (plural خشت‌ها (xešt-hâ))

خشت
  1. adobe, sun-dried brick
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References

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  1. ^ The template Template:R:iir:Lubotsky:1999 does not use the parameter(s):
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    Lubotsky, Alexander (1999) “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations[1], Helsinki, page 4
  2. ^ Schmitt, Rüdiger (2017–2018) “Chapter XVII: Indo-Iranian”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The lexicon of Indo-Iranian, page 1949:*išta-, *išti- ‘brick’

Urdu

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خِشت کا گَھر
a brick house

Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خِشت (xišt, brick), doublet of اِیْنٹ (ī̃ṭ). Ultimately derived from the BMAC substrate.

Cognate with Punjabi اِٹّ (īṭṭ), Pashto خښته (ḵẖaś̱ẖtaʿh), Khowar اݰٹو (ušṭu), Phalura اݜٹو (iṣṭū́),

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خِشْت (xiśtf (Hindi spelling ख़िश्त)

  1. brick
  2. tile; slab

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References

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  • خشت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خشت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خشت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • خشت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.