ستون

Arabic

Etymology

From سِتّ‎ (sitt, “six”) +‎ ـُون‎ (-ūn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sit.tuː.na/

Numeral

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) m, f (oblique سِتِّينَ‎ (sittīna))

sixty

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian stwn' (stūn, “column, pillar”) (Manichaean Middle Persian ʿstwn), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎬𐎢𐎴𐎠 (stūnā, “column, pillar”), from Proto-Iranian *stuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬏𐬥𐬀‎ (stūna)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Sanskrit स्थूणा (sthūṇā)), from Proto-Indo-European *st(y)oy- (compare English stone).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʊˈtuːn/
(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [sʊˈtʰuːn]
- (Dialectal) IPA^(key): [seˈtʰuːn]

Noun

Dari Persian	ستون‎
Iranian Persian	ستون‎
Tajiki Persian	сутун (sutun)

ستون • (sotun) (plural ستون‌ها‎ (sotun-hâ))

column, pillar

Descendants

→ Arabic: أُسْطُوَانَة‎ (ʾusṭuwāna, “column, pillar; cylinder”)
- → Persian: استوانه‎ (ostovâne, “cylinder”)
→ Hebrew: אצטונה‎ (“cylinder”)
→ Hindustani:
- Urdu: ستون‎ (sutūn, sitūn)
→ Ottoman Turkish: ستون‎ (sütün)
Turkish: sütun
→ Turkmen: sütün

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “stūn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

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