köken: Old Russian and pre-Reform постъ (post), as it were Proto-Slavic *postъ, a loan from Old High German fasta (“fast”) (8th century, a feminine noun from the root of Proto-Germanic *fastāną), presumably first in this sense in Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (fastan), gloss of νηστεία (nēsteía).
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian روزه (rōza, “fast, sawm [of Islam]”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (rōzag, “fast”), from Proto-Iranian *ráwčakah (“fast”).
köken: From Persian روزه (ruze). Cognate with Kazakh ораза (oraza), Nogai ораза (oraza), Southern Altai орозо (orozo), Kumyk ораза (oraza), Tatar ураза (uraza), Azerbaijani oruc, Turkmen oruç, Uzbek roʻza, etc.
fast (abstinence from food) · the fast during the month of Ramadan
çekim: çoğul रोज़े
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian روزه (rōza). First attested as Old Hindi रोजा (rojā). Compare Assamese ৰোজা (rüza), Bengali রোজা (rōja), Gujarati રોજો (rojo), Marathi रोजा (rojā), Punjabi ਰੋਜ਼ਾ (rozā).
köken: From ศีล (sǐin, “precept; rite”) + อด (òt, “to abstain; to fast; to refrain”); literally "precept of abstaining", "precept of fasting", "rite of abstaining", "rite of fasting", etc.