كستيج

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [script needed] (kwstyk' /⁠kustīg⁠/, “ritual girdle”) (Persian کستی (kosti, kosti)), doublet of كُسْتَج (kustaj, “blite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kus.tiːd͡ʒ/

Noun

كُسْتِيج • (kustīj) m (plural كَسَاتِيج (kasātīj))

1. belt, girdle

Usage notes

In the time of ʿUmar a زُنَّار (zunnār) would mean a belt worn by Christians, Jews, Sabians, Magians and other non-Muslims; for it had become fashionable in the Byzantine Empire under Diocletian and Constantine to wear a ζώνη (zṓnē) or cingulum which was first a symbol of servitude in public office and then in religious office. For Zoroastrians parallelly the conviction developed to wear a كُسْتِيج (kustīj, “belt”), whereas Babylonian Jews wore a هِمْيَان (himyān) הֶמְיָנָא (hemyānā, “belt”). Public officials in the Iranian empire wore a كَمَر (kamar, “belt”) without which no Iranian of distinction would go out, termed in Arabic مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa, “belt”). With the new Muslim rulers the former girdles were imposed and the كَمَر (kamar) or مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa) prohibited for non-Muslims. An Arabic term for “girdle” neutral from the beginning is حِزَام (ḥizām).

Declension

Declension of noun كُسْتِيج (kustīj)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُسْتِيج kustīj	الْكُسْتِيج al-kustīj	كُسْتِيج kustīj
Nominative	كُسْتِيجٌ kustījun	الْكُسْتِيجُ al-kustīju	كُسْتِيجُ kustīju
Accusative	كُسْتِيجًا kustījan	الْكُسْتِيجَ al-kustīja	كُسْتِيجَ kustīja
Genitive	كُسْتِيجٍ kustījin	الْكُسْتِيجِ al-kustīji	كُسْتِيجِ kustīji
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كُسْتِيجَيْن kustījayn	الْكُسْتِيجَيْن al-kustījayn	كُسْتِيجَيْ kustījay
Nominative	كُسْتِيجَانِ kustījāni	الْكُسْتِيجَانِ al-kustījāni	كُسْتِيجَا kustījā
Accusative	كُسْتِيجَيْنِ kustījayni	الْكُسْتِيجَيْنِ al-kustījayni	كُسْتِيجَيْ kustījay
Genitive	كُسْتِيجَيْنِ kustījayni	الْكُسْتِيجَيْنِ al-kustījayni	كُسْتِيجَيْ kustījay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	كَسَاتِيج kasātīj	الْكَسَاتِيج al-kasātīj	كَسَاتِيج kasātīj
Nominative	كَسَاتِيجُ kasātīju	الْكَسَاتِيجُ al-kasātīju	كَسَاتِيجُ kasātīju
Accusative	كَسَاتِيجَ kasātīja	الْكَسَاتِيجَ al-kasātīja	كَسَاتِيجَ kasātīja
Genitive	كَسَاتِيجَ kasātīja	الْكَسَاتِيجِ al-kasātīji	كَسَاتِيجِ kasātīji

References

• “كستيج” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “كستيج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 33
• Levy-Rubin, Mika (2011) Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire. From Surrender to Coexistence., New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 154–157
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “كستيج”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1881