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فُسْتان
dress (a woman's dress or gown) /fʊsˈtaːn/
nounB1#2610 most common
Also: gown, frock
Example sentences
هذا فُستانٌ جميلٌ.
This is a beautiful dress.
اشترت أختي فُستاناً جديداً أمس.
My sister bought a new dress yesterday.
ترتدي العروس فُستاناً أبيضَ في يوم زفافها.
The bride wears a white dress on her wedding day.
لم أجد الفُستان الذي كنت أبحث عنه في المتجر.
I could not find the dress I was looking for in the store.
كانت تفصّل فَساتينها بنفسها منذ أن كانت طالبة في كلية الأزياء.
She has been tailoring her own dresses herself since she was a student at fashion college.
على الرغم من أناقة الفُستان الذي اختارته، إلا أن قماشه لم يكن مناسباً لحرارة الصيف.
Despite the elegance of the dress she chose, its fabric was not suited to the summer heat.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | فُسْتانٌ | فَساتينُ |
| Genitive | فُسْتانٍ | فَساتينَ |
| Accusative | فُسْتاناً | فَساتينَ |
| Vocative | يا فُسْتانُ | يا فَساتينُ |
Word family
فَساتينdresses (plural)
فُستان الزفافwedding dress
فُستان السهرةevening gown
Etymology
Fustān entered Arabic as a loanword meaning a woman's dress or gown. It came through Ottoman Turkish fistan and Greek phoustani, which trace back to Italian fustagno, the term for a sturdy cotton-linen cloth known in English as fustian. Some scholars connect fustian itself to Fustat, the medieval name for Old Cairo, where the cloth was reportedly made and traded. If that link is correct, the word made a round trip: an Arabic place name shaped a European fabric term, which later returned to Arabic as the word for the finished garment.
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