اشتاه

See also: اشتہا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• اشتها (iştiha)

Etymology

From Persian اشتها (eštehâ), or directly from Arabic اِشْتِهاء (ištihāʔ).

Noun

اشتاه • (iştah)

1. appetite

Descendants

• → Turkish: iştah
• → Armenian: իշտահ (ištah), իշտախ (ištax), ըշտահ (əštah), ըշտըհա (əštəha), իշթախ (ištʻax), շտահ (štah)
• → Bulgarian: ишти́х (ištíh), ишта́х (ištáh), ища́х (ištáh)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • → Latin script: ištah
  • → Cyrillic script: ишта̄х

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iştah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشتاه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 95