Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? angēxtan
Dari reading? angēxtan
Iranian reading? angixtan
Tajik reading? angextan

Verb edit

Dari انگیختن
Iranian Persian
Tajik ангехтан

انگیختن (angixtan) (present stem انگیز (angiz))

  1. to provoke; to instigate
    1. (by extension) to cause, to create
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2571:
        اَهْلِ نَار و اَهْلِ نُور آمیخْتَه / دَر مِیَانَشَان کوهِ قَاف اَنْگیخْتَه
        ahl-i nār u ahl-i nūr āmēxta / dar miyānašān kōh-i qāf angēxta
        He [God] hath mixed the people of the Fire and the people of the Light / between them He hath reared the mountain of Qáf.
  2. to stimulate