اسپست

• اسپس‎ (espes, aspes), سپست‎ (spest), اسفست‎ (esfest, esfast), سبیس‎ (sbis), آسپست‎ (âspest)

From Middle Persian ʾspst' (aspast), according to Horn, literally “fodder for horses”։ for the constituents see اسپ‎ (asp, “horse”) and خوردن‎ (xordan, “to eat”). Akkadian 𒊍𒉺𒊍𒋾 (aspastu, “an edible garden plant or an herb, perhaps alfalfa”), Classical Syriac ܐܣܦܣܬܐ‎ (ʾespestā, “alfalfa”) are probably borrowed from Iranian.

اسپست • (espest, aspest)

1. alfalfa, lucerne

• یونجه‎ (yonje)

• دیواسپست‎ (div-espest)

• اسپ‎ (asp)

• اسپرس‎ (espers)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “ասպաստ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 272ab
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 79, page 19
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 56