The story
- Persian · borrowed fromرشت
- English todayRasht
From Persian رشت (Rašt), of uncertain origin. Sometimes connected to رشتن (reštan, “to spin, to weave”) or its homonym رشتن (raštan, “to dye”), q.v., both with reference to the city's textile industry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.