-istan
Appearance
See also: -stan
Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).
Suffix
[edit]preceding vowel | |||
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A / I | E / Ə / İ | O / U | Ö / Ü |
-ıstan | -istan | -ustan | -üstan |
-istan
Derived terms
[edit]Northern Kurdish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Persian ـِستَان (-estân), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam (“act of standing; place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂nom, derived from the root *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-istan f (Arabic spelling ـستان)
- Used to form feminine nouns of regions and countries
- Used to form feminine collective nouns, meaning “a place in which to find a great quantity of the object expressed by the root noun”
Derived terms
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـستان (-istan), from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).
Suffix
[edit]-istan
- -stan
- (dialectal) a diminutive suffix
- Synonym: -cık
Derived terms
[edit]Turkmen
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān).
Suffix
[edit]-istan
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Azerbaijani terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Azerbaijani terms derived from Classical Persian
- Azerbaijani lemmas
- Azerbaijani suffixes
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh₂-
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Northern Kurdish 2-syllable words
- Northern Kurdish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Northern Kurdish lemmas
- Northern Kurdish suffixes
- Northern Kurdish noun-forming suffixes
- Northern Kurdish feminine suffixes
- Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Turkish terms derived from Classical Persian
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish suffixes
- Turkish dialectal terms
- Turkmen terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Turkmen terms derived from Classical Persian
- Turkmen lemmas
- Turkmen suffixes