# دسته
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

From Classical Persian دسته (dasta).

### Noun

دسته (dästä)
* grasp of the hand
* handful, bunch, bouquet

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: dəstə
* Ottoman Turkish: دسته (deste, teste)
** Turkish: deste
** → Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta)
** → Bulgarian: тесте (teste)
** → Macedonian: тесте (teste)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐсте
    Latin script: tèste

### References

* Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) “deste”, in Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 75

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دسته (dästä), from Classical Persian دسته (dasta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dɛˈstɛ]

### Noun

دسته • (deste, teste)
* bundle, bunch, handful, bouquet, packet
    Synonyms: دمت (demet), قبضه (kabza), طوتام (tutam), آووج (avuç)
* pack of cards
    Synonym: اسقامبیل (iskambil)
* a dozen, specifically a bundle of twelve
    Synonym: دوزینه (duzına, düzine)
* grasp of the hand
    Synonyms: صاب (sap), قبضه (kabza)
* handle of a mortar, pestle
    Synonyms: قبضه (kabza), طوتام (tutam), طوقماق (tokmak), ال (el)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: deste
* → Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta)
* → Bulgarian: тесте (teste)
* → Macedonian: тесте (teste)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐсте
    Latin script: tèste

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dstk' /⁠dastag⁠/, “bunch, bundle, group; handle”), equivalent to دست (dast, “hand”) +‎ ـه (-e). Akin to Old Armenian դաստակ (dastak), տստակ (tstak), Arabic دَسْتَج (dastaj), Classical Syriac ܕܣܬܩܐ (dastəqāʾ), all Iranian borrowings.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [das.ta]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪æs.t̪ʰe]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪äs.t̪ʰä]

### Noun

| Dari | دسته |
| Iranian Persian | دسته |
| Tajik | даста |
دسته • (daste) (plural دسته‌ها (daste-hâ) or دستجات (dastejât))
* handle; helve; haft
    دستهٔ تبر ― daste-ye tabar ― hatchet handle
    دستهٔ کارد ― daste-ye kârd ― knife handle
* group; bunch; a number, a handful
    Hyponym: آتریاد (âtriyâd, “military unit”)
    دستهٔ گل ― daste-ye gol ― bunch of flowers; bouquet
    دسته‌های پرندگان ― daste-hâ-ye parandegân ― flocks of birds
* kind; variety
    دسته‌های مختلف موسیقی ― daste-hâ-ye moxtalef-e musiqi ― different kinds of music

#### Derived terms

* دسته چک (daste-ye ček, “chequebook”)
* دسته کردن (daste kardan, “to group; to class”)

#### Descendants

* → Bashkir: тиҫтә (tiśtə)
* → Georgian: დასტა (dasṭa)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: दस्ता (dastā)
    Urdu: دَسْتَہ (dasta)
* → Kazakh: десте (deste)
* → Kyrgyz: десте (deste)
* → Marwari:
    Devanagari script: दस्तौ (dastau)
    Mahajani script: 𑅥𑅰𑅣𑅒 (dstu /⁠dastau⁠/)
* → Middle Armenian: դաստա (dasta), դաստայ (dastay), դաստէ (dastē)
** Armenian: դաստա (dasta)
* → Northern Kurdish: deste
* → Old East Slavic: десть (destĭ) (via Turkic)
** Russian: десть (destʹ)
* → Old Anatolian Turkish: دسته (dästä)
** Azerbaijani: dəstə
** Ottoman Turkish: دسته (deste, teste)
*** Turkish: deste
*** → Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta)
*** → Bulgarian: тесте (teste)
*** → Macedonian: тесте (teste)
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тѐсте
    Latin script: tèste
* → Ossetian: даста (dasta)
* → Romani: destó
* → Uzbek: dasta

#### References

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