بستر

بستر

See also: تشتر‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بستر‎ (bestar).

Noun

بستر • (bister)

1. bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep

   Synonym: یاتاق‎ (yatak)

2. (in general) anything spread out on which one may lie or sleep

   Synonyms: مرقد‎ (merkad), مهاد‎ (mihad), یاتاق‎ (yatak)

Descendants

• Turkish: bister

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bister”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 929
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بستر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 818
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “بستر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 364

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wstl /wistar/, “bedding”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /bistaɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /bɪstaɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /bestæɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /bistaɾ/

Noun

Dari	بستر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бистар (bistar)

بستر • (bastar)

1. bed; mattress
2. bedding
3. floor

Synonyms

• یاتاق‎ (yâtâq)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बिस्तर (bistar)

  Urdu: بستر‎ (bistar)

• Ottoman Turkish: بستر‎ (bister)
  • Turkish: bister
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: بستر‎ (bistar)

  Gurmukhi: ਬਿਸਤਰ (bistar)

• Urdu: بستر‎ (bistar)

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Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian بستر‎ (bistar).

Noun

بستر • (bistar) m (Hindi spelling बिस्तर)

1. bed, mattress
2. bedding
3. pillow
4. carpet