بستر

See also: تشتر

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian بستر (bestar).

Noun

بستر • (bister)

1. bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or sleep

   Synonym: یاتاق (yatak)

2. (in general) anything spread out on which one may lie or sleep

   Synonyms: مرقد (merkad), مهاد (mihad), یاتاق (yatak)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bister”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 627
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 929
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بستر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 818
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بستر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 364

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wstl /⁠wistar⁠/, “bedding”), from Proto-Iranian *Habí (“to, for”) + *starH- (“to spread”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰí (“to, for”) + Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread, stretch out”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bis.taɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɪs.t̪ʰäɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɪs.t̪ʰäɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɪs.t̪ʰäɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bis.t̪ʰäɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bes.t̪ʰæɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bis.t̪ʰäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bistar
Iranian reading?	bestar
Tajik reading?	bistar

Noun

Dari	بستر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бистар

بِسْتَر • (bestar)

1. bed; mattress
2. bedding
3. floor

Synonyms

• یاتاق (yâtâq)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: बिस्तर (bistar)

  Urdu: بِسْتَر (bistar)

• Ottoman Turkish: بستر (bister)
• → Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi script: بستر (bistar)

  Gurmukhi script: ਬਿਸਤਰ (bistar)

• Urdu: بستر (bistar)

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian بِسْتَر (bistar).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bɪs.t̪əɾ/

Noun

بِسْتَر • (bistar) m (Hindi spelling बिस्तर)

1. bed, mattress
2. bedding
3. pillow
4. carpet