Mahasti (مهستی) combines the Persian mah (moon) and asti (being) — "moonlike being" or "great being." **Mahsati Ganjavi (12th c.)** was the medieval Persian poet of **Ganja in Azerbaijan** — author of romantic quatrains in the courtly tradition.
One of the great medieval Persian female poets.
Mahasti reduces to eight — the number of Persian moon-poet.