آستین

See also: اسپین

Persian

Etymology

First attested in Firdawsī, 1010 AD.

Of unknown etymology due to not having any clear cognates, but potentially borrowed from Southeastern Iranian; Herzenberg compares Pashto لستوڼي (lastúṇay, “sleeve”) which is related to Pashto لاس (lás, “hand”) with a /d-/ > /l-/ sound shift in some Eastern Iranian languages, then cites some dialectal Persian terms borrowed from Pashto or a related language where the initial /l-/ has been dropped.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔɑːs.tiːn]

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

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

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

Readings
Classical reading^?	āstīn
Dari reading^?	āstīn
Iranian reading^?	âstin
Tajik reading^?	ostin

Noun


Iranian Persian	آستین
Dari	آستین
Tajik	остин

آستین • (âstin)

sleeve
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 392”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[2]:
  ترسم کز این چمن نبری آستین گل
  کز گلشنش تحمل خاری نمی‌کنی
  tarsam k-az īn čaman na-barī āstīn-i gul
  k-az gulšan-aš tahammul-i xārē na-mē-kunī
  I fear that you will not bring a sleeveful of roses from this meadow
  Because you cannot bear a single thorn from its rose fields.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Descendants

→ Bengali: আস্তিন (astin)
→ Gujarati: આસ્તીન (āstīn)
→ Urdu: آستین (āstīn)

References

^ Herzenberg, L. G. (2014) “Studies in Persian Etymology II”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, published by P. A. Kocharov and A. V. Shatskov, page 36 of 19–48

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (āstīn).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːs.t̪iːn/

Noun

آستین • (āstīn) f (Hindi spelling आस्तीन)

sleeve

Declension

Declension of آستین
	singular	plural
direct	آستین (āstīn)	آستینیں (āstīnẽ)
oblique	آستین (āstīn)	آستینوں (āstīnõ)
vocative	آستین (āstīn)	آستینو (āstīno)

Derived terms

آسْتِینِ شَمْع (āstīn-e-šam', “sleeve of a lamp”)
آستین میں چُھری رَکھنا (āstīn mẽ churī rakhnā, “[to be] ready for an attack”, literally “to have a dagger in the sleeve”)
آسْتِین کا سانپ (āstīn kā samp, “wolf in sheep's clothing”, literally “snake in the sleeve”)
نِیمَہ آستِین (nīma-āstīn, “half-sleeved tunic”)
- نِیم آستِین (nīm-āstīn)
فَراخ آسْتِین (farāx-āstīn, “generous”)

References

“آستین”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “آستین”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
“آستین”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

[1] Herzenberg, L. G. (2014) “Studies in Persian Etymology II”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, published by P. A. Kocharov and A. V. Shatskov, page 36 of 19–48

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