# ستاره
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian ستاره (sitâra, “star; fate”).

#### Noun

ستاره • (sitare) (plural ستارگان)
* (astronomy) star, a luminous celestial body made up of plasma
    Synonyms: اختر (ahter), نجم (necm), یلدز (yıldız)
* (figuratively) one's star, fortune, fate, chance, destiny
    Synonym: اختر (ahter)
* an open tent, a pavilion

##### Derived terms

* ستاره سوخته (sitare suhte, “unfortunate”)
* ستاره‌دان (sitaredan, “astrologer”)
* ستاره‌سز (sitaresiz, “unfortunate, unlucky”)
* ستاره‌لو (sitareli, “starry; lucky, fortunate”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: sitare

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian ستاره. Compound of سه (“three”) +‎ تاره (“stringed”).

#### Noun

ستاره • (sitare)
* a three-stringed lute
* three-dice backgammon

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sitare2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4265
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ستاره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 665
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stella”, 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 1595
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ستاره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2547
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ستاره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1039

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* ستار (satâr, setâr), استاره (estâre)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (stʾlk' /⁠stārag⁠/), [script needed] (stl /⁠star⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎫𐎼 (star-), from Proto-Iranian *Hstā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hstā́, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Cognate with English star.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [si.tɑː.ˈɾa]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɪ.t̪ʰɑː.ɾǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɪ.t̪ʰɑː.ɾǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sɪ.t̪ʰɑː.ɾǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [si.t̪ʰɔː.ɾǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [se.t̪ʰɒː.ɹé]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [si.t̪ʰɔ.ɾǽ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)
* Rhymes: -e (Iran), -a (elsewhere)

### Noun

سِتارِه • (setâre) (plural ستارگان (setâregân) or ستاره‌ها (setâre-hâ))
* star
** 1985, قیصر امینپور [Qeysar Aminpour], “شعری برای جنگ”, in تنفس صبح:دیگر ستارگان را حتی هیچ اعتماد نیست. شاید ستاره‌ها شبگردهای دشمن ما باشند.digar setâregân-râ hattâ hič e'temâd nist. šâyad setâre--hâ šabgard-hâ-ye došman-e mâ bâšand.Even the stars are no longer reliable. Perhaps the stars are our enemy's night patrols.
* fate, destiny
* star (actors, athletes, etc.)
* asterisk, the symbol "*"
* (archaic) spark
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 384:بس ستاره‌ی آتش از آهن جهید، و ان دل سوزیده پذرفت و کشیدbas setâre-ye âtaš az âhan jahid, v-ân del-e suzide pazroft o kašidMany a spark of fire shot forth from the iron, and that burning heart received and drew [them] in.

#### Usage notes

The plural ستارگان (setâregân) is used for astronomical stars, sparks, etc., but not for human "stars" or asterisks.

#### Derived terms

* بی‌ستاره (bi-setâre)
* ستاره‌ای (setâre-'i)
* ستاره‌شناس (setâre-šenâs)
* ستاره‌شناسی (setâre-šenâsi)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: সিতারা (śitara), সেতার (śetar)
* → Gujarati: સિતારો (sitāro)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सितारा (sitārā)
** Urdu: ستارہ (sitāra)
* → Marathi: सितारा (sitārā)
* → Ottoman Turkish: ستاره (sitare)
** Turkish: sitare
* → Punjabi:
** Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਤਾਰਾ (sitārā)
** Shahmukhi script: ستارہ (stārh)

### Proper noun

ستاره • (setâre)
* a female given name, Setareh, Sitara, Setare, or Sitora, from Middle Persian

### See also

* اختر (axtar)
* کوکب (kowkab)