# راست
## Baluchi
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *Hraštáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hraštás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

### Adjective

راست • (rást)
* right

#### Antonyms

* چپ (capp)

## Khalaj
### Adjective

راست (râst)
* Arabic spelling of râst (“true, right”)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian راست (rāst, “straight; right”), from Middle Persian rāst, from Old Persian 𐎼𐎠𐎿𐎫 (rāsta, “right”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hraštás.

### Adjective

راست • (râst)
* straight, not crooked, curly, or bent, having a constant direction throughout its length
    Synonyms: طوغری (doğrı), مستقیم (müstekim)
* true, right, correct, accurate, free from errors or mistakes, complying with correctness
    Synonym: طوغری (doğrı)
* right, designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north
    Synonym: صاغ (sağ)
* right, correct, proper, suitable, appropriate, having the required properties for a purpose

#### Derived terms

* راست اولمق (râst olmak, “to be straight”)
* راست ایتمك (râst etmek, “to adjust, correct”)
* راست بالا (râst bala, “straight of stature”)
* راست كتیرمك (râst getirmek, “to manage to meet”)
* راست كردانیه (râst gerdâniye, “an old Turkish makam”)
* راست كلمك (râst gelmek, “to meet by chance”)
* راست كله (râst gele, “by chance, fortuitously”)
* راست كوشت (râst geveşt, “an old Turkish makam”)
* راست ماهور (râst mahur, “an old Turkish makam”)
* راست مایه (râst mâye, “a classical Turkish makam”)
* راستا (râsta, “the right hand side”)
* راستان (râstan, “the upright, the honest”)
* راستباز (râstbaz, “who plays fairly”)
* راستبین (râstbîn, “who sees aright”)
* راستكار (râstkâr, “a morally right man”)
* راستكو (râstgû, “always telling the truth”)
* راستلاشمق (râstlaşmak, “to meet one another”)
* راستلامق (râstlamak, “to make straight”)
* راستلق (râstlık, “straightness”)

#### Related terms

* چاپراز (çapraz, “clasp; frog”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: rast
* → Albanian: rast

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “راست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 9
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rast1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3940
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “râst”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1052
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “راست”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 611
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1445
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “راست”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 42255
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “rast”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “راست”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 955

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* راس (râs) (colloquial)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian rāst, from Old Persian 𐎼𐎠𐎿𐎫 (rāsta, “right”), from Proto-Iranian *Hraštáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hraštás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós (“having moved in a straight line”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with English right.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɾɑːst]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rɑːst̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rɑːst̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [rɑːs]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [rɔːs]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹɒːst̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹɒːst̪]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [ɹɒːs]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɾɔst̪]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Adjective

| Dari | راست |
| Iranian Persian | راست |
| Tajik | рост |
راست • (râst)
* straight
    Synonym: مستقیم (mostaqim)
    Antonym: کج (kaj)
    خطِ راست ― xat-e râst ― straight line
* direct; straight
    راست برو. ― râst borow. ― Go directly.
    راست رفت منزل. ― râst raft manzel. ― He went straight home.
* right (dexter, opposite of left)
    Antonym: چپ (čap)
    چشمِ راست ― češm-e râst ― right eye
* true; right
    Synonym: درست (dorost)
    Antonym: دروغ (doruğ)
    راست گفتن ― râst goftan ― to tell the truth
* erect

#### Derived terms

* راست کردن (râst kardan)
* راست گفتن (râst goftan)
* راستگو (râstgu)
* راستی (râsti)
* راستین (râstin)
* یک راست (yek râst)

### Noun

راست • (râst)
* truth
    Antonym: دروغ (doruğ)
    دروغ مصلحت آمیز به از راست فتنه انگیز.doruğ-e maslahat-âmiz beh az râst-e fetne-angiz.A lie which brings benefit is better than a truth that causes sedition.(a Classical Persian saying)
* (music) rast (a Persian mode)

### Descendants

* → Armenian: ռաստ (ṙast)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: रास्त (rāst)
    Urdu: راست (rāst)
* → Kazakh: рас (ras)
* → Khalaj: râst
* → Ottoman Turkish: راست (râst)
** Turkish: rast
** → Albanian: rast
* → Uzbek: rost
* → Yagnobi: рост (rost)

### References

* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 437