کشتی

کَشتی (kəşti) (definite accusative کَشتینی, plural کَشتیلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of kəşti (“boat”)

From Middle Persian 𐭪𐭱𐭲𐭩𐭪𐭩 (kštyky /⁠kaštīg⁠/, “boat, ship”).

Readings
Classical reading?	kaštī
Dari reading?	kištī
Iranian reading?	kašti
Tajik reading?	kišti

• (Indo-Persian) IPA^(key): /kiʃˈtiː/

Dari	کشتی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	киштӣ

کَشْتی • (kašti) (plural کشتی‌ها (kašti-hâ))

1. boat, ship

   Synonym: قایق (qâyeq)

   سوار کشتی ― savâr-e kašti ― on a ship

   کشتی راندن ― kašti rândan ― to steer a ship

• → Middle Bengali: কিশ্তী (kiśti)
  • Bengali: কিস্তী (kisti)
• → Gujarati: કિશ્તી (kiśtī), કિસ્તી (kistī)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: कश्ती (kaśtī)

  Urdu: کشتی (kiśtī)

• → Khalaj: kəşti
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਸ਼ਤੀ (kaśtī)

  Shahmukhi script: کَشتی (kaśtī)

Borrowed from Parthian *kuštīg, from Proto-Iranian *kušti-, a t-extension of Proto-Iranian *kuši- (“side (of the body)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kuḱis (“(female) pubic hair; vulva”), from *kew-k-, from *kew- (“to be concave or convex”).^[1] Doublet of کستی (kosti, “sacred Zoroastrian waist-girdle”), which was inherited,^[2] as well as with کس (kos, “vulva”); outside of Iranian, cognate with Sanskrit कुक्षि (kukṣi, “belly, interior, womb”) and Lithuanian kūšỹs (“pubic hair; vulva”).

Readings
Classical reading?	kuštī
Iranian reading?	košti

Dari	کشتی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	гӯштӣ

کُشْتی • (košti)

1. wrestling

From کشت (kešt, “field”) +‎ ی (-i).

Readings
Classical reading?	kištī
Dari reading?	kištī
Iranian reading?	kešti
Tajik reading?	kišti

کِشْتی • (kešti)

1. fit to be planted

کِشْتی • (kešti)

1. cultivation; planting
2. (uncommon) seed

Borrowed from Classical Persian کشتی (kaštī, kištī).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /kəʃ.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: کَش‧تی

کَشتی • (kaśtī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕਸ਼ਤੀ)

1. boat; ark, canoe

   Synonym: بیڑی (beṛī)

Declension of کشتی
dir. sg.	کَشْتی (kaśtī)
dir. pl.	کَشْتِیاں (kaśtīyāṉ)
	singular	plural
direct	کَشْتی (kaśtī)	کَشْتِیاں (kaśtīyāṉ)
oblique	کَشْتی (kaśtī)	کَشْتِیاں (kaśtīyāṉ)
vocative	کَشْتِیے (kaśtiye)	کَشْتِیو (kaśtīv)
ablative	کَشْتِیوں (kaśtīvṉ)	کَشْتِیاں (kaśtīyāṉ)
locative	—	—
instrumental	—	—

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “کشتی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਕਿਸ਼ਤੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

Borrowed from Classical Persian کشتی (kaštī, kištī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɪʃ.t̪iː/
• (Punjabic Urdu, Delhi Urdu) IPA^(key): [kəʃ.t̪iː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: کِش‧تی

کِشْتی • (kiśtī) f (Hindi spelling कश्ती)

1. boat, ship

Declension of کشتی
	singular	plural
direct	کِشْتی (kiśtī)	کِشْتِیاں (kiśtiyā̃)
oblique	کِشْتی (kiśtī)	کِشْتِیوں (kiśtiyō̃)
vocative	کِشْتی (kiśtī)	کِشْتِیو (kiśtiyō)

Borrowed from Classical Persian کشتی (kuštī). Cognate with Marathi कुस्ती (kustī).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kʊʃ.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: کُش‧تی

کُشْتی • (kuśtī) f (Hindi spelling कुश्ती)

1. wrestling

   Synonym: کشتی بازی (kušti bāzī)

Declension of کشتی
	singular	plural
direct	کُشْتی (kuśtī)	کُشْتِیاں (kuśtiyā̃)
oblique	کُشْتی (kuśtī)	کُشْتِیوں (kuśtiyō̃)
vocative	کُشْتی (kuśtī)	کُشْتِیو (kuśtiyō)

• کشتی لڑنا (kušti laṛnā, “to wrestle”)
• کشتی باز (kušti bāz, “wrestler”)

• “کشتی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کشتی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کشتی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.