نشست

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ni.ˈʃast]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɪ.ʃǽst̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nɪ.ʃǽst̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nɪ.ʃǽst̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ni.ʃǽst̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ne.ʃǽst̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ni.ʃǽst̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	nišast
Dari reading?	nišast
Iranian reading?	nešast
Tajik reading?	nišast

Verb

نشست • (nešast)

1. past stem of نشستن (nešastan)
2. third-person singular past of نشستن (nešastan)

Noun

نشست • (nešast)

1. session, meeting

   نشست مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل

   nešast-e majma'-e omumi-ye sâzmân-e melal

   United Nations General Assembly meeting

2. sagging, sinking

   نشست دیوار ― nešast-e divâr ― sinking of the wall

   نشست ساختمان ― nešast-e sâxtemân ― sinking of the building

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “نشست”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “نشست”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian نَشِسْت (nišast), from نشستن (nišastan, “to sit down”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /nə.ʃɪst̪/
• Rhymes: -ɪst̪

Noun

نشست • (naśist, niśast) f

1. seat
2. (politics) seat
3. session
4. gathering, sitting

Declension

Declension of نشست
	singular	plural
direct	نشست (naśist)	نشستیں (naśistẽ)
oblique	نشست (naśist)	نشستوں (naśistõ)
vocative	نشست (naśist)	نشستو (naśisto)

References

• “نشست”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “نشست”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.