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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hástā (“archer, shooter”), from *Has- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognate with Sanskrit अस्तर् (astar, “archer”).
𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭 • (astar) m[1]
- a marksman, archer, shooter
- ^ Kanga, Kavasji Edalji (1909) “Marksman”, in An English–Avesta Dictionary[1], Bombay: The Fort Printing Press, →OCLC, page 323
