چاشت

چاشت • (cášt)

1. lunch

چاشت (çâşt) (definite accusative چاشتؽ, plural چاشتلار)

1. Arabic spelling of çâşt (“noon, lunch, lunchtime”)

چاشت (čâšt)

1. lunch

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (čʾšt' /⁠čāšt⁠/, “lunch, meal”). Akin to Old Armenian ճաշ (čaš), an Iranian borrowing.

چاشت • (čâšt)

1. meal eaten between sunrise and noon; brunch; morning meal
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎:

     به راه آبخوری و چاشت خوران به سمنان آمدم و آنجا مدتی مقام کردم و طلب اهل علم کردم.

     ba rāh ābxwarē u čāšt xwarān ba simnān āmadam u ānjā muddatē maqām kardam u talab-i ahl-i ilm kardam.

     Drinking and having a morning meal while on the road, I came to Simnān. I stayed there for a while, and looked for a man of knowledge.

• چاس (čâs) (dialectal)

• چاشتگاه (čâštgâh)

• → Azerbaijani: çeşt, çaşt
• → Baluchi: چاشت (cášt)
• → Gujarati: ચાશ્ત (cāśt)
• → Khalaj: çâşt
• → Hindustani: cāśt

  Hindi: चाश्त

  Urdu: چاشت

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “čāst”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 22

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːʃt̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːʃt̪

چاشت • (cāśt) m (Hindi spelling चाश्त)

1. breakfast

   Synonym: ناشتا (nāśtā)

2. collation
3. the middle hour between sunrise and the meridian
4. a type of prayer offered at the time of sunrise; a morning prayer