رشت
Arabic
Persian
Etymology 1
Compare روز (ruz) and روشن (rošan). All from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roʃt/
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ræʃt/
Descendants
- English: Rasht
Etymology 3
Akin to Old Armenian երաշտ (erašt, “dry; drought”), an Iranian borrowing.
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
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