Yasht

//jæʃt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a collection of hymns and prayers.

Etymology

From Middle Persian yšt' (yašt, “prayer, worship”), probably from Avestan 𐬫𐬀𐬱𐬙𐬀 (yašta, “honored”), from 𐬫𐬀𐬰 (yaz, “to worship, honor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-.

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