خجسته

Persian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xu.d͡ʒas.ˈta/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊ.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊ.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xu.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xo.d͡ʒæs.t̪ʰe]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χu.d͡ʒäs.t̪ʰä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	xujasta
Dari reading^?	xujasta
Iranian reading^?	xojaste
Tajik reading^?	xujasta


Iranian Persian	خجسته
Dari	خجسته
Tajik	хуҷаста

Adjective

خجسته • (xujasta / xojaste) (Tajik spelling хуҷаста)

fortunate, auspicious
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3831:
  بس خجسته معصیت کان کرد مرد
  نی ز خاری بر دمد اوراق ورد
  bas xujasta ma'siyat kān kard mard
  nay za xārī bar damad awrāq ward
  Very fortunate the sin which the man committed:
  do not rose-leaves spring from a thorn?

Derived terms

خجستگی (xojastegi, “auspiciousness”)

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “خجسته”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim