# ستون
## Arabic
### Etymology

From سِتّ (sitt, “six”) +‎ ـُون (-ūn)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sit.tuː.na/

### Numeral

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) m or f (oblique سِتِّينَ (sittīna))
* sixty

#### Derived terms

* سِتِّينِيّ (sittīniyy)

### Adjective

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) (feminine سِتُّونَ (sittūna))
* sixtieth
    اَلصَّفْحَةُ السِّتُّونَ ― aṣ-ṣafḥatu s-sittūna ― the sixtieth page

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ستون (sotun, “column”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /syˈtun/

### Noun

ستون • (sütun)
* column, pillar, pilaster, post
    Synonyms: دستك (destek), دیرك (direk), عمود (ʿamud)
* (figurative) prop, support
* pole, stick of timber, mast
    Synonym: (mast) دیرك (direk)
* column in a newspaper or in a text

#### Derived terms

* ستونه (sütune, “anything comparable to a column”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: sütun

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sütun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4402
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ستون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 666
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Columna”, 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 206
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ستون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2553
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sütun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ستون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1040

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stwn'), 𐫙𐫘𐫤𐫇𐫗 (ʿstwn /⁠stūn⁠/, “column, pillar”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎬𐎢𐎴𐎠 (stūnā, “column, pillar”), from Proto-Iranian *stuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬏𐬥𐬀 (stūna)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Sanskrit स्थूणा (sthūṇā)).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [su.tuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊ.t̪ʰuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊ.t̪ʰuːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sʊ.t̪ʰuːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [su.t̪ʰun]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [so.t̪ʰuːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [su.t̪ʰun]
* (Iran) IPA: [sʊˈtʰuːn]
** (Dialectal) IPA: [seˈtʰuːn]

### Noun

ستون • (sotun) (plural ستون‌ها (sotun-hâ))
* column, pillar

#### Descendants

* → Hindustani:
    Urdu: ستون (sutūn, sitūn)
* → Ottoman Turkish: ستون (sütün)
** Turkish: sütun
* → Turkmen: sütün

### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “stūn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ستون (sutūn).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /sʊ.t̪uːn/

### Noun

ستون • (sutūn, satūn) m (Hindi spelling सतून)
* pillar, support, column, prop, beam
* obelisk,

### References

* “ستون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “ستون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.