طَسْتٌ
Root: طست
Full Definition
طَسْتٌ
A kind of vessel of
صُفْر [or brass]: [generally pronounced in the present day طِشْت and طَشْت: and mostly applied to a kind of basin of tinned copper, or of brass, or of silver, used for washing the hands &c., figured and described in my work on the Modern Egyptians:] i. q.
طَسٌّ, [q. v.,] which is [said to be] arabicized from طَسْت, the latter being a foreign word; [but it is from the Pers., طَشْت;] it is of the dial. of Teiyi; and [said to be] formed from طَسٌّ, one of the two س being changed into ت, because they are deemed difficult of pronunciation; but in forming the pl. and the dim., the second س is restored, because separated from the former; for the pl. is طِسَاسٌ and طُسُوسٌ, though it has also for its pl. طُسُوتٌ, or, accord. to Zj, طِسَاتٌ; and the dim. is طُسَيْسٌ, or طُسَيْسَةٌ: it is also pronounced طِسْتٌ; and طَشْتٌ also has been mentioned; but some say that this is a mistake; and others, that طَشْت is the original word from which طَسْتٌ is arabicized: Zj says that, with most of the Arabs, it is fem.: sometimes it is masc.: IAmb says, on the authority of Fr, that the word used by the Arabs was طَسَّةٌ, save that some said طَسٌّ, without ة; and that the tribe of Teiyi said طَسْتٌ, like as they said لِصْتٌ for لِصٌّ: Es-Sijistánee says that it is a foreign word arabicized: and Az, that it is a word adopted into the Arabic language, because ط and ت do not both occur in an Arabic word.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more