Where does “פֿיסטאַשקע” come from?
פֿיסטאַשקע (Yiddish) comes from Russian фиста́шка, from Ottoman Turkish فستق, from Persian فستق, from Arabic فِسْتَق, from Middle Persian pstk', from Old Persian *pistaka.
פֿיסטאַשקע (Yiddish): pistachio; peanut
Ancestry of “פֿיסטאַשקע”, step by step