ـستان

See also: شبان, ستان, and -stan

Northern Kurdish

Suffix

ـستان (-istan or -stan) f

1. Arabic spelling of -istan
2. Arabic spelling of -stan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـستان (-istān). By surface analysis, suffix form of ستان (sitan, “place where something abounds”).

Suffix

ـستان • (-istan)

1. -stan

Derived terms

Ottoman Turkish terms suffixed with ـستان

بدستان

تاتارستان

تركستان

داغستان

سرابستان

شكرستان

لهستان

چركسستان

چهستان

Descendants

• Turkish: -istan

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1039