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‖ shikasta|ʃɪˈkæstə|
Also † shekest(h)eh, shikast, shikasteh, etc.
[Pers., lit. ‘broken’.]
A late cursive Persian script.
1771W. 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. 1849F. Madden tr. Silvestre's 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. 1889Sachau & Ethé Catal. Persian Manuscripts in Bodl. Libr. 186 Ff. 51–67 is partly written in Shikasta.., partly in Nasta‘lîk. 1901Kipling 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. 1954A. F. L. Beeston Catal. Additional Persian Manuscripts in Bodl. Libr. 4/2 Ff. 604–5 are pieces of a letter in shikasta. 1966Hosking & 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. 1970G. Unwin tr. Jensen's Sign, Symbol & Script xi. 331 For correspondence the Persians invariably employ the Sikästä script. |