خفتن
Arabic edit
Verb edit
Persian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Persian [Term?] (/xuftan/), from Proto-Iranian *hwápati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swap-, from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”). Compare Manichaean Parthian xwsp- (xusp-), Northern Kurdish xew, xewn, Russian спать (spatʹ)و and Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”), whence hypnosis.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [xuf.tan]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [xof.t̪ʰæn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [χuf.t̪ʰän]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | xuftan |
Dari reading? | xuftan |
Iranian reading? | xoftan |
Tajik reading? | xuftan |
Verb edit
Dari | خفتن |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | хуфтан |
خفتن • (xoftan) (present stem خسپ (xosp))
References edit
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خفتن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xuftan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “xwsp-”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols