दस्तूर دَسْتُور ♣ Eng. didactic

दस्तूर دَسْتُور ♣ Eng. didactic

[dastūr], m. custom, practice, tradition, constitution.

[←New Pers. dastūr ‘priest, religious authority’ ◄Middle Pers. dstwbl /dastuwar/ ‘priest, religious authority’] ♣[Old Avestan dąstuuā- f. ‘knowledge (what must be known)’] ♣[OIA √daṁs ‘have miraculous power, be capable of smth. wondrous’]

▲[PIE *dens- ‘talent, force of mind; to learn, teach’] (LRC)▼

[PIE► ⋯⋯ →Eng. didactic]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0516; (Pokorny, 1959) 0201; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.688; (MacKenzie, 1971) 025; (Horn, 1893) 0568