پوستین

Persian

Etymology

(pust, “skin”) +‎ (-in), from Middle Persian [script needed] (pwstyn' /⁠pōstēn⁠/, “made of leather”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [poːs.teːn]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰiːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰoːs.t̪ʰiːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰʊːs.t̪ʰin]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰuːs.t̪ʰiːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɵs.t̪ʰin]

Readings
Classical reading^?	pōstēn
Dari reading^?	pōstīn
Iranian reading^?	pustin
Tajik reading^?	püstin

Noun

پوستین • (pustin)

winter fur or leather coat
- c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Rubaʿī 18”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎:
  آن ماه که گفتی ملک رحمانست
  این بار اگرش نگه کنی شیطانست
  رویی که چو آتش به زمستان خوش بود
  امروز چو پوستین به تابستانست
  ān māh ki guftī malak-i rahmān ast
  īn bār agar-aš nigah kunī šaytān ast
  rōyē ki čō ātiš ba zimistān xwaš būd
  imrōz čō pōstēn ba tābistān ast
  That beauty whom you said was the angel of the Lord:
  If you see him this time, he is the Devil!
  That face which was pleasant like fire in winter,
  Is today like a fur coat in summer.
  (Classical Persian transliteration.)
  (The poem references the growth of facial hair, which spoils the beauty of the adolescent male beloved.)

Adjective

پوستین • (pustin)

(obsolete) made of leather

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