درست

See also: درشت

Khalaj

Adjective

دُرُست (durust)

1. Arabic spelling of durust (“correct”)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian drw(y)st' (drust, “right; well, healthy”), from Old Persian *dᵘruvišta, from Proto-Iranian *druwištah. Compare Baluchi دْراه (drāh, “well, healthy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [du.ɾust]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.ɾʊst̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.ɾʊst̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ.ɾʊs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪u.ɾust̪]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪o.ɹost̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪o.ɹost̪]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [d̪o.ɹos]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪u.ɾust̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	durust
Dari reading?	durust
Iranian reading?	dorost
Tajik reading?	durust

• (Sistani) IPA^(key): /dɾost/

Adjective

Dari	درست
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дуруст

درست • (dorost) (comparative درست‌تَر (dorost-tar), superlative درست‌تَرین (dorost-tarin))

1. correct, right

   جواب درست چیست؟ (more literary)

   javâb-e dorost či-st?

   جواب درست چیه؟ (more colloquial)

   javâb-e dorost či-ye?

   What is the correct answer?

   Synonym: صحیح (sahih)

2. upright, honest
3. whole, complete, entire, exact
   • c. 1100, Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:

     چون ابر به نوروز رخ لاله بشست، بر خیز و به جام باده کن عزم درست

     čon abr be nowruz rox-e lâle be-šost, bar-xiz o be jâm-e bâde kon 'azm-e dorost

     when the cloud has washed the lilies' cheek on Nowruz, get up and [seek] the wine cup with full determination

4. (music) perfect

   پنجم درست ― panjom-e dorost ― perfect fifth

5. (archaic) well, healthy
   • 995-1077, Abulfazl-i Bayhaqī, Tārīx-i Bayhaqī

     گفت: «بونصر را بگوی که امروز درستم ...»

     guft: "bû nasr râ bigôy ki imrôz durustam ..."

     [He] said: "tell Bu Nasr that I'm well today."

   Synonyms: خوب (xub), تندرست (tandorost)

Antonyms

• نادرست (nâdorost)

Derived terms

• درست کردن (dorost kardan, “to fix, to make, to arrange”)
• درست شدن (dorost šodan, “to be fixed, to be made”)
• درست پیمان (dorost-peymân, “true to one's promise”)
• درستی (dorosti, “correctness; honesty”)
• درست‌کار (dorost-kâr, “honest, upright”)
• تندرست (tandorost, “healthy”)
• درست‌خوانی (dorost-xâni)

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: դրուստ (drust), տրուստ (trust)
  • Armenian: դրուստ (drust)
• → Azerbaijani: dürüst
• → Bashkir: дөрөҫ (döröś)
• → Bengali: দুরস্ত (durosto)
• → Gujarati: દુરસ્ત (durast)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दुरुस्त (durust)

  Urdu: درست (durust)

• → Kazakh: дұрыс (dūrys)
• → Khalaj: durust
• → Kyrgyz: дурус (durus)
• → Marathi: दुरुस्त (durusta)
• → Ottoman Turkish: درست (dürüst)
  • Turkish: dürüst
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਰੁਸਤਾ (darustā)

  Shahmukhi script: دَرُست (darust)

• → Tatar: дөрес (döres)
• → Uyghur: دۇرۇس (durus)

References

• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 91
• Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 359-60

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian درست (durust), from Middle Persian drw(y)st' (drust), from Old Persian [script needed] (*dᵘruvišta), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *druwištah.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊ.ɾʊst̪/

Adjective

دُرُسْت • (durust) (Hindi spelling दुरुस्त)

1. in good condition; unbroken, in working order
2. faultless, without defect
3. correct, accurate

   Synonyms: ٹِھیک (ṭhīk), صَحِیح (sahīh)

4. appropriate, fitting, proper

   Synonym: مُناسِب (munāsib)

Related terms

• تندرست (tandurust, “healthy”)
• تندرستی (tandurustī, “good health”)
• درست کرنا (durust karnā, “to correct”)