گشت

Persian

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Iranian *gártati

Persian گَشْتَن

Persian گَشْتَ

From گَشْتَن (gaštan).

Noun

گشت • (gašt)

1. patrol, watch

   گشت بودن ― gašt budan ― to be on patrol

Derived terms

• گشت زدن (gašt zadan)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: gəşt
• → Urdu: گشت (gaśt)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كشت (geşt)
  • → Armenian: կեշտ (kešt)
• → Hindi: गश्त (gaśt)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian 𐮅𐮍𐮎𐮈 (wspy), from Old Persian 𐎻𐎿𐎱 (vi-s-p /⁠vispa⁠/), a borrowing from Old Median [Term?] (/⁠*vispa⁠/). Inherited from Proto-Iranian *wícwah (“all, every; whole”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *wíćwas (“all, every”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wiḱ/wo-.

Perhaps influenced from the Book Pahlavi script; >wisp >*gisp/t >*gišp/t >gišt.

Cognate with Parthian 𐭅𐭉𐭎𐭐 (wysp /⁠wisp⁠/), Sogdian 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫛 (wysp /⁠wisp⁠/), Bactrian οισπο (oispo /⁠wīsp⁠/), Old Persian 𐎻𐎿 (vi-s /⁠visa⁠/), and Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬞𐬀 (vīspa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡiʃt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɪʃt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɪʃt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡɪʃt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡiʃt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʲeʃt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡiʃt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	gišt
Dari reading?	gišt
Iranian reading?	gešt
Tajik reading?	gišt

Adjective

گشت • (gešt)

1. all, everyone

   Synonym: (Classical Persian Zoroastrian texts) وسف (wisf)