رشت

رشت (form I)

1. رَشَّتْ (raššat) /raʃ.ʃat/: third-person feminine singular past active of رَشَّ (rašša)
2. رُشَّتْ (ruššat) /ruʃ.ʃat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of رَشَّ (rašša)

Compare روز (ruz) and روشن (rošan). All from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine, to see”).

• IPA^(key): /roʃt/

رشت • (rošt)

1. bright

• IPA^(key): /ræʃt/

رشت • (Rašt)

1. Rasht (a city in Iran)

• English: Rasht

Akin to Old Armenian երաշտ (erašt, “dry; drought”), an Iranian borrowing.

رشت • (rašt)

1. very dry

رشت • (rašt)

1. earth, dust

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رشت”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul