کشتی

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

1. Arabic spelling of kəşti (“boat”)

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

• (Indo-Persian) IPA^(key): /kiʃˈtiː/
• (Some Iranian speakers) IPA^(key): [kʰʲeʃ.t̪ʰíː]

کشتی • (kaštī / kašti) (plural کشتی‌ها (kaštī-hā / kašti-hâ), Tajik spelling киштӣ)

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”).

کشتی • (kuštī / košti) (Tajik spelling гӯштӣ)

1. wrestling

From کشت (kešt, “field”) +‎ ی (-i).

کشتی • (kištī / kešti) (Tajik spelling киштӣ)

1. fit to be planted

کشتی • (kištī / kešti) (Tajik spelling киштӣ)

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)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “کشتی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਕਿਸ਼ਤੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026

Borrowed from Classical Persian کشتی (kaštī, kištī).

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

کَشْتی • (kaśtī) f (Hindi spelling कश्ती)

1. boat, ship

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)

• 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, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “کشتی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.