فستان

فستان: بالضم نوع من اللبس النسوي؛ والجمع فساتين. وفي الشام «فسطان» بالطاء وتفخيم السين.
تركي fistan، من fustan باللغة الألبانية. وهذه الكلمة ذات صلة بـ fustaine بالفرنسية، و fustian بالإنكليزية، و fustan بالإسبانية، و fastgno بالإيطالية، وكل هذه الكلمات أصلها fustanea (tela) باللاتينية بمعنى «نسيج فسطاطي» نسبة إلى فسطاط مصر.

فُسْتَان (noun)

Etymology: Said to be from the Egyptian city الفُسْطَاط (al-fusṭāṭ), originally being markedly a raiment of Egyptian women, or so called because it was coloured with fustet, or related to the fabric fustian, the first usually derived as from Arabic فُسْتُق (fustuq) with an Occitanized ending and the second word family (see its translations), present in the early Middle Ages, derived sometimes via فُسْتَان (fustān) from الفُسْطَاط (al-fusṭāṭ) but this is probably not the case due to its arising early in the Middle Ages unlike the Arabic which is but known from the end of the European Middle Ages and the fustian family is rather from Latin fūstis (“cudgel”) relating to the fabrication of the material, and from the Old Occitan plant name fustet there is no way to this Arabic form. The appearance of ش (š), irregular for an Arabic derivation, the mere variation itself, and the ending variation ـَان (-ān) instead of ـَال (-āl) hint an adaptation from Romance, by way of the international textiles trade in the Old World – though this must have been the case already as early as the 14ᵗʰ century when this word already appears in the Ḥijāz –, compare قُرْصَان (qurṣān), بُرْتُقَان (burtuqān) and قَشْقَوَان (qašqawān), all with underlying -āl auslaut, which suggests a first formation in Medieval Latin -ālis, -āneum respectively its Romance equivalents.

Meaning: dress

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