دستان

Persian

Etymology

See داستان (dâstân).

Pronunciation

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

 

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

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

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

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

Readings
Classical reading?	dastān
Dari reading?	dastān
Iranian reading?	dastân
Tajik reading?	daston

Dari	دستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дастон

Noun

دستان • (dastân)

1. Alternative form of داستان (dâstân, “story, tale”).
2. slyness, cunning
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 147:

     خود گرفتی این عصا در دست راست
     دست را دستان موسی از کجاست

     xwad giriftī īn asā dar dast rāst
     dast rā dastān-i Mūsā az kujā-st

     (Suppose that) thou hast grasped this rod firmly in thy hand:
     whence will accrue to thy hand the cunning of Moses?

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. song, melody, tune
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 495”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     هر مرغ به دستانی در گلشن شاه آمد
     بلبل به نواسازی حافظ به غزل‌گویی

     har murğ ba dastānē dar gulšan-i šāh āmad
     bulbul ba nawāsāzī hāfiz ba ğazal-gūyī

     Every bird has come to the king's rose garden with a melody;
     The nightingale by singing tunes, Ḥāfiẓ by uttering love poems.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Proper noun

دستان • (dastân)

1. (Iranian mythology) Alternative name of the hero زال (zâl).

References

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