• پستون(pestun)(colloquial, Tehrani)

FromMiddle Persian[script needed](pystʾn'/⁠pestān⁠/), fromProto-Iranian*pstānáh, fromProto-Indo-Iranian*pstānás, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*pston-ó-s, from*pstḗn(“breast”).

پستان• (pestân) (pluralپستان‌ها)

1. breast;teat;udder

   Synonyms:(more polite)سینه(sine),(vulgar)مَمِه(mame)

   • 1963,Forugh Farrokhzad, “معشوق من”, inتولدی دیگر [Another Birth]‎^[1]:

     معشوق من
     انسان ساده‌ایست
     انسان ساده‌ای که من او را
     در سرزمین شوم عجایب
     چون آخرین نشانهٔ یک مذهب شگفت
     در لابلای بوتهٔپستانهایم
     پنهان نموده‌ام

     ma'šuq-e man
     ensân-e sâde'i-st
     ensân-e sâde'i-st ke man u râ
     dar sarzamin-e šum-e ajâyeb
     čon âxarin nešâne-ye yek mazhab-e šegeft
     dar lâbelâ-ye bute-yepestânhâ-yam
     penhân namude-am

     My lover
     Is a simple person
     A simple person whom I
     Have hidden
     In the folds of the thicket of mybreasts
     Like the final oracle of a religion of wonders
     In a strange and ill-fortuned land

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi:पिस्तान(pistān)

  Urdu:پِستان(pistān)

• Ottoman Turkish:پِستان(pistân)

Borrowed fromClassical Persianپستان(pistān,“breast; udder”).

• (Standard Urdu)IPA^(key):/pɪs.t̪ɑːn/
• Rhymes:-ɑːn
• Hyphenation:پِس‧تان

پِسْتان• (pistān) m (Hindi spellingपिस्तान)

1. breast;bust

   لڑکیوں کے لئےپستان کا ابهار، جوانی کے آغاز کا حصّہ ہے۔

   Laṛkiyõ ke liyepistān kā ubhār, javānī ke āġāz kā hissā hai.

   For girls, the emergence ofbreasts is part of the onset of adolescence.

2. bosom
3. udder,dug

• پِسْتانیَہ(pistāniya,“mammal”)
• سَرِ پِسْتان(sar-e-pistān,“nipple”, literally“head of the breast”)

• “پستان”, inاُردُو لُغَت(urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan,2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پستان”, inKitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “پستان”, inA dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “پستان”, inریخْتَہ لُغَت(rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary[Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation,2025.