QuoteReplyTopic: the term "istan", from who does it originate? Posted: 18-Feb-2012 at 14:59
Originally posted by cahaya
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
You are wrong, in almost all Ottoman official documents "Istanbul" has been called "Istana/Astana" (it means capital/city in Persian language, the new capital of Kazakhstan is also called Astana).
Now i know the word Istana or Astana we use in Malay is from Persian.. cool..
Istana means court in Indonesian, so I'm assuming that is the same in Bahasa Melayu. Just checked and Astana means cemetery in Indonesian so it would be embarrassing to mix the two up :)
as far as i know it's just means land of and place of the word bimar in persian means sick or wounded so bimaristan(hospital) means place of sick/wounded
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