رشت

رشت

See also: زشت‎ and ژست‎

Arabic

Verb

رَشَّتْ • (raššat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of رَشَّ‎ (rašša)

Verb

رُشَّتْ • (ruššat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past passive of رَشَّ‎ (rašša)

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Persian

Etymology 1

Compare روز‎ (ruz) and روشن‎ (rošan). All from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roʃt/

Adjective

رشت • (rošt)

1. bright

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ræʃt/

Adjective

رشت • (rašt)

1. Rasht (a city in Iran)

Etymology 3

Akin to Old Armenian երաշտ (erašt, “dry; drought”), an Iranian borrowing.

Adjective

رشت • (rašt)

1. very dry

Noun

رشت • (rašt)

1. earth, dust

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “رشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul