ستون

Arabic

Arabic numbers ^(edit)

		600
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		6
Cardinal: سِتُّون (sittūn)     Ordinal: سِتُّون (sittūn)

Root
س د س (s d s)
6 terms

Etymology

From سِتّ (sitt, “six”) + ـُون (-ūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sit.tuː.na/

Numeral

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) m or f (oblique سِتِّينَ (sittīna))

1. sixty

Declension

Declension of numeral سِتُّون (sittūn)

plural	sound masculine plural
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	سِتِّين sittīn	السِّتِّين as-sittīn	سِتِّي sittī
nominative	سِتُّونَ sittūna	السِّتُّونَ as-sittūna	سِتُّو sittū
accusative	سِتِّينَ sittīna	السِّتِّينَ as-sittīna	سِتِّي sittī
genitive	سِتِّينَ sittīna	السِّتِّينَ as-sittīna	سِتِّي sittī

Derived terms

• سِتِّينِيّ (sittīniyy)

Descendants

• → Swahili: sitini

Adjective

سِتُّونَ • (sittūna) (feminine سِتُّونَ (sittūna))

1. sixtieth

   اَلصَّفْحَةُ السِّتُّونَ ― aṣ-ṣafḥatu s-sittūna ― the sixtieth page

Ottoman Turkish

ستون

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سُتُون (sutūn, “column”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syˈtun/

Noun

ستون • (sütun)

1. column, pillar, pilaster, post

   Synonyms: دستك (destek), دیرك (direk), عمود (ʿamud)

2. (figurative) prop, support
3. pole, stick of timber, mast

   Synonym: (mast) دیرك (direk)

4. column in a newspaper or in a text

Derived terms

• ستونه (sütune, “anything comparable to a column”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sütun

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sütun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4402
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ستون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 666
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Columna”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ستون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2553
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sütun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ستون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1040

Persian

Alternative forms

• استون (ostun), استن (oston), ستن (soton) (poetic)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stwn'), 𐫙𐫘𐫤𐫇𐫗 (ʿstwn /⁠stūn⁠/, “column, pillar”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎬𐎢𐎴𐎠 (stūnā, “column, pillar”), from Proto-Iranian *stuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬏𐬥𐬀 (stūna)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰuHnáH (“column, pillar”) (compare Sanskrit स्थूणा (sthūṇā)). Doublet of استوانه (ostovâne, “cylinder”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /su.ˈtuːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.t̪ʰuːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.t̪ʰuːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊ.t̪ʰuːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.t̪ʰun]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [so.t̪ʰuːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [su.t̪ʰun]

• Rhymes: -uːn

Readings
Classical reading?	sutūn
Dari reading?	sutūn
Iranian reading?	sotun
Tajik reading?	sutun

• (Iran) IPA^(key): [sʊˈtʰuːn]
  • (Dialectal) IPA^(key): [seˈtʰuːn]

Noun

Dari	ستون
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сутун

ستون • (sutūn / sotun) (plural ستون‌ها (sutūn-hā / sotun-hâ), Tajik spelling сутун)

1. column, pillar

Descendants

• → Chagatai:
  • Uzbek: stun, sutun, ustun
• → Hindustani:

  Urdu: سُتُون (sutūn), سَتُون (satūn)

• → Ottoman Turkish: ستون (sütün)
  • Turkish: sütun
• → Turkmen: sütün

References

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

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سُتُون (sutūn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sʊ.t̪uːn/, /sə.t̪uːn/

Noun

سُتُون or سَتُون • (sutūn or satūn) m (Hindi spelling सतून)

1. pillar, support, column, prop, beam
2. obelisk,

References

• “ستون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ستون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.