بوستان

بوستان

See also: توستان‎

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بوصتان‎ (bostan)

Etymology

From Persian بوستان‎ (bôstân).

Noun

بوستان • (bostan)

1. garden; garden patch, garden bed

Derived terms

• بوستانجی‎ (bostancı, “gardener”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bostan
• → Albanian: bostan
• → Aromanian: bustane
• → Bulgarian: боста́н (bostán)
• → Byzantine Greek: μποστάνι (mpostáni)
  • Greek: μποστάνι (bostáni)
• → Crimean Tatar: bostan
• → Macedonian: бостан (bostan)
• → Romanian: bostan, bostană
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: бо̀стан
  • Latin: bòstan

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “بوستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 923

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Persian

Alternative forms

• بستان‎ (bostân)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwdstʾn'), 𐫁𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗‎ (bwystʾn), 𐫁𐫇𐫏𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗‎ (bwyystʾn /bōyestān/, “(flower) garden”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫁𐫇𐫅𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗‎ (bwdystʾn /bōδestān/), Sogdian [script needed] (βōδistān, “garden”) and Iranian borrowings Aramaic בּוּםְתְּנָא‎ (būstenā), Classical Syriac ܒܘܣܬܢܐ‎ (būstānā), Old Armenian բուրաստան (burastan).

Pronunciation

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

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /boːsˈtɑːn/

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

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /bɵsˈtɔn/

Noun

بوستان • (bôstân) (plural بوستان‌ها‎ (bôstân-hâ))

1. garden

Derived terms

• بوستانبان‎ (bôstânbân)
• بوستانی‎ (Bôstâni)

Related terms

• بو‎ (bô)
• ـستان‎ (-stân)

Descendants

• → Armenian: բոստան (bostan)
• → Arabic: بُسْتَان‎ (bustān)
  • → Shehri: məstún
  • → Swahili: bustani
• → Azerbaijani: bostan
• → Georgian: ბოსტანი (bosṭani)
• → Hebrew: בֻּסְתָּן‎ (bustān)
• → Malay: bustan
  • Indonesian: bustan
• → Northern Kurdish: bostan
• → Ottoman Turkish: بوستان‎ (bostân), بوصتان‎ (bostan)
  • Turkish: bostan
  • → Albanian: bostan
  • → Aromanian: bustane
  • → Bulgarian: боста́н (bostán)
  • → Byzantine Greek: μποστάνι (mpostáni)
    • Greek: μποστάνι (bostáni)
  • → Crimean Tatar: bostan
  • → Macedonian: бостан (bostan)
  • → Romanian: bostan, bostană
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: бо̀стан
    • Latin: bòstan
• → Russian: башта́н (baštán)
• → Ukrainian: башта́н (baštán)
• → Uzbek: boʻston

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 471
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “bōyestān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press