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दास्तान

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian دَاسْتَان (dāstān).[1] First attested in c. 1649[2] as Middle Hindi داستاں (dastaṉ).

Pronunciation

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  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /d̪ɑːs.t̪ɑːn/, [d̪äːs.t̪ä̃ːn]
  • Hyphenation: दा‧स्तान, दास्‧तान
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

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दास्तान • (dāstān) f (Urdu spelling داسْتان)[3][4][5]

  1. tale, story, romance; narrative
    Synonyms: कहानी (kahānī), क़िस्सा (qissā)

Declension

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Declension of दास्तान (fem cons-stem)
singular plural
direct दास्तान
dāstān 		दास्तानें
dāstānẽ
oblique दास्तान
dāstān 		दास्तानों
dāstānõ
vocative दास्तान
dāstān 		दास्तानो
dāstāno

References

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More information
  1. ^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “dāstān”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 197.
  2. ^ “داسْتان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  3. ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दास्तान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 493
  4. ^ “दास्तान”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  5. ^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “दास्तान”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 2267
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