مست

See also: مشت

Arabic

Verb

مست (form I)

مَسَّتْ (massat) /mas.sat/: third-person feminine singular past active of مَسَّ (massa)
مُسَّتْ (mussat) /mus.sat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of مَسَّ (massa)

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مست (mest).

Noun

مست • (mast, mest, mist) m (plural مسوت (mesut)) (obsolete)

inner shoes, slippers, chaussons

References

Berggren, Jakob (1844) “botte”, in Guide français-arabe vulgaire des voyageurs et des Francs en Syrie et en Égypte, avec carte physique et géographique de la Syrie et plan géométrique de Jérusalem ancien et moderne. Comme supplément aux Voyages en Orient‎^[1] (in French), Uppsala^→: Leffler et Sebell, column 119
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مست”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 588b
Wetzstein, Johann Gottfried (1857) “Der Markt in Damaskus”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 11, page 484

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian (mast).

Adjective

مست • (mest)

drunk, boozy (also figurative)

Descendants

Turkish: mest

Etymology 2

From Arabic مِسْح (misḥ, “haircloth”).

Noun

مست • (mest)

moccasin

Descendants

Turkish: mest
→ Egyptian Arabic: مز (mizz, mazz), مزد (mizd, mazd)
→ North Levantine Arabic: مست (mist, mast)

References

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1059
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 4613

Persian

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-Iranian *matˢtás

Persian

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭮𐭲 (mst /⁠mast⁠/, “drunk, bemused”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *matˢtás (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Sanskrit मत्त (matta).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mast]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæst̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäst̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	mast
Dari reading^?	mast
Iranian reading^?	mast
Tajik reading^?	mast

Adjective

مست • (mast)

drunk, intoxicated, inebriated
(literary) in rut; (of elephants) in musth
- 10th century, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh [The Book of Kings]:
  براسبش بکردار پیلان مَست
  گرفت آن زمان پَالَهَنگش بدست
  bar asb-aš bekerdâr-e pilân-e mast
  gereft ân zamân pâlahang-aš be dast
  He grasped the rein of his horse like an elephant in musth.

Derived terms

سرمست (sarmast)
مستانی (mastâni)
مستی (masti)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: məst
→ Bengali: মস্ত (mosto)
→ English: musth
→ Gujarati: મસ્ત (mast)
→ Kazakh: мас (mas)
→ Marathi: masta
Devanagari script: मस्त

Modi script: 𑘦𑘭𑘿𑘝
→ Middle Hindi: مست (mst /⁠mast⁠/)
- Hindustani: mast
  Hindi: मस्त
  
  Urdu: مَسْت
→ Old Punjabi: ਮਸਤੁ (masatu)
- Punjabi: mast
  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸਤ
  
  Shahmukhi script: مَسْت

Noun

مست • (mast)

drunk; drunkard
(figurative) person who is intoxicated with or overcome with love for God; Sufi

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [must]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊst̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [must̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [most̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [must̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	must
Dari reading^?	must
Iranian reading^?	most
Tajik reading^?	must

Noun

مست • (most)

Derived terms

مستمند (mostmand)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (mast).

Adjective

مست • (mast) (Hindi spelling मस्त)

Synonyms

مت (matt)

Related terms

مستی (mastī)

Noun

مست • (mast) m (Hindi spelling मस्त)

Synonyms

مت (matt)