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dastur

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables
das-tur
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Zoroastrian high priest ranking above a mobad or herbad.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰástas Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (d-s-t) Middle Persian 𐭩𐭣𐭤 (ydh) Classical Persian دَسْت (dast)? Classical Persian دَسْتُور (dastūr)bor. English dastur Borrowed from Classical Persian دَسْتُور (dastūr).

Inflected Forms

dasturs (plural) dastoor (alternative) destoor (alternative) dustoor (alternative)

Questions

What does dastur mean?
A Zoroastrian high priest ranking above a mobad or herbad.
Where does dastur come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰástas Old Persian 𐎭𐎿𐎫 (d-s-t) Middle Persian 𐭩𐭣𐭤 (ydh) Classical Persian دَسْت (dast)? Classical Persian دَسْتُور (dastūr)bor. English dastur Borrowed from Classical Persian دَسْتُور (dastūr).

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