ֆիստան

Armenian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فستان (fistan), in the dialects also fisdan, fıstan.

Pronunciation

Noun

ֆիստան • (fistan) (Istanbul)

  1. woman's skirt
    Synonym: կիսաշրջազգեստ (kisašrǰazgest)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 64:[1]
      ֆստան․ քառփէթթայ
      fstan; kʻaṙpʻētʻtʻay
      ֆստան (fstan) = carpèta

Alternative forms

  • ֆստան (fstan) Van
  • ֆիսդան (fisdan)

References

  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 248

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ֆիստան”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 376
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