Meaning of پشت | Babel Free

Definitions

1. back (posterior part of the body)
2. rear, back (of anything)
3. the exterior
4. generation, descent
5. support, means of support
6. catamite
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“پشت بر دیوار”

[with] the back to the wall

“[…]کان خرش در چنگ گرگی مانده بود، پارهها از پشت و رانش میربود.”

[…] that his donkey was left in the clutch of a wolf, [which] was tearing pieces [of flesh] from its back and thighs.

“تو را گفت دانا بباید شنود / ببر تا بهفتاد پشت از یهود / جهودان و هندو که بدگوهرند / همی هر یکی بدتر از دیگرند”

You should listen to the words of the wise: "Cut yourself off from Jews up to seventy generations; Jews and Indians are ill-natured; one is worse than the other."

“هر که را آتش پناه و پشت شد، هم مجوسی گشت و هم زردشت شد”

Any one to whom fire is a refuge and support becomes both a Magian and a Zoroaster.

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