فستان

Etymology
Said to be from the Egyptian city, originally being markedly a raiment of Egyptian women, or so called because it was coloured with , or related to the fabric , the first usually derived as from with an Occitanized ending and the second word family (see its translations), present in the early Middle Ages, derived sometimes via  from  but this is probably not the case due to its arising early in the Middle Ages unlike the Arabic which is but known from the end of the European Middle Ages and the  family is rather from  relating to the fabrication of the material, and from the  plant name  there is no way to this Arabic form. The appearance of, irregular for an Arabic derivation, the mere variation itself, and the ending variation ـَان instead of hint an adaptation from , by way of the international textiles trade in the Old World – though this must have been the case already as early as the 14th century when this word already appears in the Ḥijāz –, compare ,  and , all with underlying -āl auslaut, which suggests a first formation in ,  respectively its Romance equivalents.

Noun

 * 1) dress

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dress

Etymology
From, from. Some descendants listed here may be directly borrowed from Romance or Greek.

Noun

 * 1) woman's skirt, dress or petticoat
 * 2) fustanella

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dress