دستان

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [das.tɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æs.t̪ʰɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äs.t̪ʰɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	dastān
Iranian reading?	dastân
Tajik reading?	daston

Dari	دستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дастон

Noun

دستان • (dastân)

1. story, romance, fable
2. slyness, cunning
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 147:

     خود گرفتی این عصا در دست راست
     دست را دستان موسی از کجاست‏

     xwad giriftī īn 'asā dar dast rāst
     dast rā dastān-i Mūsa az kujāst

     (Suppose that) thou hast grasped this rod firmly in thy hand:
     whence will accrue to thy hand the cunning of Moses?”

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دستان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim