رشته

See also: رستہ, رشتہ, and رشتة

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle PersianCategory:Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian#رشتهCategory:Persian terms derived from Middle Persian#رشته 𐭥𐭱𐭲𐭢 (lštk' /⁠rištag⁠/)Category:Middle Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#رشته,[1] from *rišt- (“to twist”, whence Classical Persian رشتن (rištan, “to twist, to spin”)) + -ag. The former is from Proto-IranianCategory:Persian terms derived from Proto-Iranian#رشته *wrais- (“to turn, to spin”), from Proto-Indo-IranianCategory:Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian#رشته, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#رشته *wriḱ-yé-ti (“to twist, to bend”).[2] Compare Avestan 𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬌𐬯𐬌𐬀 (uruuisia, “to turn”), German reihen (“to sew loosely”), Latin rīca (“veil”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? rišta
Dari reading? rišta
Iranian reading? rešte
Tajik reading? rišta

Noun

رشته • (rišta / rešte) (plural رشته‌ها (rišta-hā / rešte-hâ), Tajik spelling ришта)Category:Persian lemmas#رشتهCategory:Persian nouns#رشتهCategory:Persian entries with incorrect language header#رشتهCategory:Pages with entries#رشتهCategory:Pages with 1 entry#رشته

  1. thread, string
    رشتهٔ مروارید ― rešte-ye morvârid ― string of pearlsCategory:Persian terms with usage examples#رشته
    رشتهٔ نخ ― rešte-ye nax ― thread of stringCategory:Persian terms with usage examples#رشته
  2. (figurative) series, sequence, string
    رشتهٔ دروغ ― rešte-ye doruġ ― string of liesCategory:Persian terms with usage examples#رشته
  3. field of study; subject
    متخصص در رشته‌های مختلف
    motaxasses dar rešte-hâ-ye moxtalef
    specialist in various fields
    Category:Persian terms with usage examples#رشته
  4. tie, bond, thread
    رشتهٔ دوستی ― rešte-ye dusti ― tie of friendshipCategory:Persian terms with collocations#رشته
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 113:Category:Persian terms with quotations#رشته
      درست رشته امید ما بدان خم زلفت
      مپرس سلسله ما ز شیخ و مفتی و تایب
      durust rišta-yi ummēd-i mā bad-ān xam-i zulfat
      mapurs silsila-yi mā zi šayx u muftī u tāyib
      My thread of hope is straightened by the loops in her locks of hair;
      Do not ask the sheikh or the mufti or the repentant about [these] chains [that bind] me.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
      Category:Persian terms with quotations#رشته
  5. reshte (Persian-style noodles); (loosely) noodles (in general)
  6. mountain range
  7. (computingCategory:fa:Computing#رشته) string

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “rištag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  2. ↑ Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437