داستان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān, “tale, story”).

Noun

داستان • (dastan, destan)

1. tale, legend, myth, fable, any fictitious narrative told to excite wonder

   Synonyms: اسطوره (ustura), افسانه (efsane), قصه (kıssa), مثل (masal)

2. tale, chronicle, story, account, any narrative description of past events

Descendants

• Turkish: destan
• → Armenian: տէստան (tēstan)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “destan2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1180
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “destan”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 212
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “داستان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 561
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fabula”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 538
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “داستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2003
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “destan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “داستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 882

Persian

Etymology

Probably a clipping of Middle Persian [script needed] (dātistān /⁠d'tst'n'⁠/, “law, process, court case”), from Proto-Iranian *dāt-ya- (“of the law”), from Proto-Iranian *daH- (“to place, put”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Iran):

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(phonemic)

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dɑːs.ˈtɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːs.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːs.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔs.t̪ʰɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	dāstān
Dari reading?	dāstān
Iranian reading?	dâstân
Tajik reading?	doston

(phonetic)

• (Iran) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːsˈt̪ʰɒːn]

Noun

Dari	داستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	достон

داسْتان • (dâstân) (plural داستان‌ها (dâstân-hâ))

1. tale, story

   Synonym: قِصِّه (qesse)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 694—695:

     آمدیم اندر تمامی داستان / وز وفاداری جمع راستان‌ / کز پس این پیشوا برخاستند / بر مقامش نایبی می‌خواستند

     âmadim andar tamâmi-ye dâstân / v-az vafâdâri-ye jam'-e râstân / k-az pas-e in pišvâ bar-xâstand / bar maqâm-aš nâ'ib-i mi-xâstand

     We come [now] to complete the tale and [speak] of the loyalty of the multitude of the righteous, who rose up after [the death of] this leader, demanding a vicar in his place.

Derived terms

• داستان سرا (dâstân-sarâ, “storyteller”)
• داستان نویس (dâstân-nevis, “storywriter”)
• داستان کوتاه (dâstân-e kutâh, “short story”)

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: դաստան (dastan)
• → Azerbaijani: dastan
• → Bengali: দাস্তান (dastan)
• → Baluchi: دستاں (dastá̃)
• → English: dastan
• → Gujarati: દાસ્તાન (dāstān)
• → Kazakh: дастан (dastan)
• → Kyrgyz: дастан (dastan)
• → Marwari: दासतांन (dāstā̃n), दास्ताँन (dāstā̃n)
• → Middle Hindi: داستاں (dastaṉ)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: दास्तान (dāstān), दास्ताँ (dāstā̃), दास्तां (dāstā̃)

    Urdu: داسْتان (dāstān), داسْتاں (dāstā̃)

• → Ottoman Turkish: داستان (dâstân)
  • Turkish: destan
  • → Armenian: տէստան (tēstan)
• → Pashto: داستان (dāstān)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਸਤਾਨ (dāstān), ਦਾਸਤਾਂ (dāstā̃)
  • Shahmukhi script: داسْتان (dāstān), داسْتاں (dāstāṉ)
• → Tatar: дастан (dastan)
• → Uyghur: داستان (dastan)
  • Chinese: 達斯坦／达斯坦 (dásītǎn)
• → Zazaki: destan

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “داستان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Urdu

Alternative forms

• داسْتاں (dāstā̃)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān). First attested in c. 1649 as Middle Hindi داستاں (dastaṉ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/
• (poetic) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑ̃ː/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -ɑ̃ː

Noun

داسْتان • (dāstān) f (Hindi spelling दास्तान)

1. story, tale, narrative

   Synonyms: قِصَّہ (qissa), کَہانی (kahānī)

Declension

Declension of داستان
	singular	plural
direct	داسْتان (dāstān)	داسْتانیں (dāstānẽ)
oblique	داسْتان (dāstān)	داسْتانوں (dāstānõ)
vocative	داسْتان (dāstān)	داسْتانو (dāstāno)

Uyghur

Etymology

From Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑstɑn/

Noun

داستان • (dastan) (plural داستانلار (dastanlar))

1. tale; long poem

See also

• 達斯坦／达斯坦 (dásītǎn)