# بوستان
## Arabic
### Noun

بُوسْتَانِ • (būstāni) ?
* nominative dual of بُوسْت (būst, “a post on the internet”)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* بوصتان (bostan)
* պօսթան (bostan) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

From Classical Persian بوستان (bōstān).

### Noun

بوستان • (bostan)
* garden; garden patch, garden bed

#### Derived terms

* بوستانجی (bostancı, “gardener”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bostan
* → Albanian: bostan
* → Aromanian: bustane
* → Bulgarian: боста́н (bostán)
* → Byzantine Greek: μποστάνι (mpostáni)
** Greek: μποστάνι (bostáni)
* → Crimean Tatar: bostan
* → Ladino: bostan, bustan
* → Macedonian: бостан (bostan)
* → Romanian: bostan, bostană
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: бо̀стан
** Latin script: bòstan

### References

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوستان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 923

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* بستان (bostân)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwdstʾn'), 𐫁𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗 (bwystʾn), 𐫁𐫇𐫏𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗 (bwyystʾn /⁠bōyestān⁠/, “(flower) garden”). By surface analysis, بو (bô, “fragrance”) +‎ ـسْتان (-stân, “place of”).
Cognate with Parthian 𐫁𐫇𐫅𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫗 (bwdystʾn /⁠bōδestān⁠/), Sogdian [script needed] (βōδistān, “garden”) and Iranian borrowings Aramaic בּוּסְתְּנָא (būstenā), Classical Syriac ܒܘܣܬܢܐ (būstānā), Old Armenian բուրաստան (burastan).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [boːs.ˈtɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [boːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [boːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [boːs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bʊːs.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [buːs.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɵs.t̪ʰɔ́n]
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### Noun

| Dari | بوستان |
| Iranian Persian | بوستان |
| Tajik | бӯстон |
بوستان • (bôstân) (plural بوستان‌ها (bôstân-hâ))
* garden

#### Derived terms

* بوستانبان (bôstânbân)
* بوستانی (bôstâni)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: بُسْتَان (bustān)
** → Shehri: məstún
** → Swahili: bustani
* → Azerbaijani: bostan
* → Chagatai: بوستان
** Uyghur: بوستان (bostan)
** Uzbek: boʻston
* → Georgian: ბოსტანი (bosṭani)
* → Gujarati: બોસ્તાન (bostān)
* → Hebrew: בֻּסְתָּן (bustān)
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: बोस्तान (bostān)
** Urdu: بوسْتان (bostān)
* → Malay: bustan
** Indonesian: bustan
* → Middle Armenian: պօստան (pōstan)
** Armenian: բոստան (bostan)
* → Northern Kurdish: bostan
* → Ottoman Turkish: بوستان (bostân), بوصتان (bostan), պօսթան (bostan) — Armeno-Turkish
** Turkish: bostan
** → Albanian: bostan
** → Aromanian: bustane
** → Bulgarian: боста́н (bostán)
** → Byzantine Greek: μποστάνι (mpostáni)
*** Greek: μποστάνι (bostáni)
** → Crimean Tatar: bostan
** → Ladino: bostan, bustan
** → Macedonian: бостан (bostan)
** → Romanian: bostan, bostană
** → Serbo-Croatian:
*** Cyrillic script: бо̀стан
*** Latin script: bòstan
* → Punjabi:
** Shahmukhi script: بوسْتان (bostān)
* → Russian: башта́н (baštán)
* → Ukrainian: башта́н (baštán)

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բոյր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 471
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bōyestān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بوسْتَان (bōstān).

### Noun

بوسْتان • (bostān) m
* garden

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بوستان”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بوسْتَان (bōstān). By surface analysis, بو (bo, “fragrance”) +‎ ـسْتان (-stān, “place of”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /boːs.t̪ɑːn/

### Noun

بوسْتان • (bostān) m (Hindi spelling बोस्तान)
* garden

### Further reading

* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “بوستان”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
* “بوستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* “بوستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

## Uyghur

Other scripts :
| Perso-Arabic | بوستان |
| Latin | ‍bostan‍ |
| Cyrillic | бостан |

### Etymology

From Chagatai بوستان, from Classical Persian بوستان (bōstān).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bostɑn/

### Noun

بوستان • (bostan) (plural بوستانلار (bostanlar))
* grove, garden, oasis

### Further reading

* Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN