Persian

Noun

خشت • ‎(xešt) ‎(plural خشت‌ها ‎(xešt-hâ))

1. (archaic) javelin, dart, spear, halberd, poleaxe

Descendants

• > Old Armenian: խիշտ ‎(xišt)
  • Armenian: խիշտ ‎(xišt)
• > Georgian: ხიშტი ‎(xišṭi)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “خشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 510

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian hšt' ‎(xišt, “brick”), from Old Persian 𐎡𐏁𐎫𐎡 ‎(išti-, “sun-dried brick”)(?), ultimately either from a BMAC substratum or from Proto-Indo-European *is- ‎(“clay, dough”).

Akin to Avestan 𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌𐬌𐬀 ‎(ištiia, “brick”), 𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬌 ‎(išti), 𐬰𐬆𐬨𐬋𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬎𐬎𐬀 ‎(zəmōištuua, “clay brick”), Sanskrit इष्टका ‎(iṣṭakā, “brick”), Tocharian B iścem ‎(“clay”), Pashto خښته ‎(ḵẖaś̱ẖtaʿh), and possibly Parthian 𐫍𐫏𐫢𐫎𐫏𐫃 ‎(“brick”). For the Proto-Indo-European origin theory, compare Hittite 𒅖𒈾𒀸 ‎(išnāš, “dough”).

Noun

خشت • ‎(xešt) ‎(plural خشت‌ها ‎(xešt-hâ))

خشت

1. adobe, sun-dried brick

Derived terms

• خشتی ‎(xešti)

Descendants

• Tajik: хишт ‎(xišt)
  • > Uzbek: gʻisht
• > Kurdish:
  • Central Kurdish: خشت ‎(xišt)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xišt”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
• Gernot Windfuhr (December 15, 2006), "Iran vii. Non-Iranian Languages of Iran vii(1). Overview" in Encyclopædia Iranica, last updated April 17, 2012
• "Proto-IE: *is-" in The Tower of Babel
• Witzel, Michael (2003) Linguistic Evidence for Cultural Exchange in Prehistoric Western Central Asia (Sino-Platonic Papers; 129), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations