पुश्त

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (pušt), from Proto-Iranian *pr̥štáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pr̥štʰás (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European pr̥-sth₂-ós, from *per- + *steh₂- + *-ós. Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬙𐬀 (paršta), Sanskrit पृष्ठ (pṛṣṭha). Doublet of पृष्ठ (pŕṣṭh)

Noun

पुश्त • (puśt) f (Urdu spelling پشت)

Declension

Declension of पुश्त (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	पुश्त puśt	पुश्तें puśtẽ
oblique	पुश्त puśt	पुश्तों puśtõ
vocative	पुश्त puśt	पुश्तो puśto

Related terms

पुश्तैनी (puśtainī, “ancestral”)
पुश्तनामा (puśtanāmā, “genealogy”)

References

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पुश्त”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

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