单词 | shikasta |
释义 | shikastan. A late cursive Persian script. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > of specific languages > Persian nastaliq1677 shikasta1771 taliq1771 Pahlavi1772 1771 W. Jones Gram. Persian Lang. 15 As to the Shekesteh, it is very irregular and inelegant, and is chiefly used by the idle Indians, who will not take time to form their letters perfectly. 1849 F. Madden tr. J. J. Champollion & A. Champollion Universal Palæogr. I. 52 For private affairs and official papers, the writing is generally careless and inelegant, destitute of its diacritical marks, and thence named shekestheh, or broken. 1889 Sachau & Ethé Catal. Persian Manuscripts in Bodl. Libr. 186 Ff. 51–67 is partly written in Shikasta.., partly in Nasta‘lîk. 1901 R. Kipling Kim xiv. 364 He..tore a leaf from a note-book, and..wrote in gross Shikast—the script that bad little boys use when they write dirt on walls. 1954 A. F. L. Beeston Catal. Addit. Persian Manuscr. in Bodl. Libr. 4/2 Ff. 604–5 are pieces of a letter in shikasta. 1966 Hosking & Meredith-Owens Handbk. Asian Scripts ii. 20 The last phase in Persian writing was the evolution of the Shikasteh (literally ‘broken’) script from Nasta‘līḳ. 1970 G. Unwin tr. Jensen Sign, Symbol & Script xi. 331 For correspondence the Persians invariably employ the Sikästä script. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1771 |
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