Middle Persian

Noun

pstk' • ‎(pistag)

1. pistachio nut

Descendants

taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian

• Persian: پسته ‎(peste)
  • Tajik: писта ‎(pista)
    • → Uzbek: pista
  • → Azeri: püstə
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: पिस्ता ‎(pistā)
    • Urdu: پستہ ‎(pistā)
  • → Kazakh: пісте ‎(piste)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پسته ‎(piste)
  • → Tatar: пестә ‎(pestä)
• → Ancient Greek: πιστάκη ‎(pistákē), πιστάκιον ‎(pistákion), βιστάκιον ‎(bistákion)
  • → Latin: pistacium, pistacia
    • → Czech: pistácie
    • → Estonian: pistaatsia
    • → German: Pistazie
    • → Hungarian: pisztácia
    • → Italian: pistacchio
      • → Catalan: pistatxo
      • → English: pistachio
    • → Latvian: pistācija
    • → Norwegian: pistasie
    • → Old French: pistace
      • French: pistache
        • → Dutch: pistache
        • → Spanish: pistacho
        • → Swedish: pistasch
    • → Polish: pistacja
    • → Portuguese: pistácio, pistácia
• → Arabic: فستق ‎(fustuq)
  • Andalusian Arabic: الفستق ‎(alfústaq)
    • → Spanish: alfóncigo, alfónsigo, alfóstiga
    • → Catalan: festuc
  • → Old Armenian: փստուղ ‎(pʿstuł)
  • → Persian: فستق ‎(fostoq, fostaq)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: فستق ‎(fıstıq)
      • Turkish: fıstık
      • → Albanian: fëstëk
      • → Armenian: ֆստըխ ‎(fstəx)
      • → Belarusian: фісташка ‎(fistaška) (influenced by French pistache)
      • → Bulgarian: фъстък ‎(fǎstǎk)
      • → Crimean Tatar: fıstıq
      • → Greek: φιστίκι ‎(fistíki)
      • → Romanian: fistic
      • → Russian: фиста́шка ‎(fistáška) (influenced by French pistache)
        • → Armenian: ֆիստաշկա ‎(fistaška)
        • → Bashkir: фисташка ‎(fistaška)
      • → Ukrainian: фісташка ‎(fistaška) (influenced by French pistache)
  • → Swahili: fistiki
• → Old Armenian: պիստակ ‎(pistak), պստակ ‎(pstak)
  • Armenian: պիստակ ‎(pistak)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պիստակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 85ab
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “pistag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 69
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1664, page 133b