See also: ششتن

Persian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • ششتن (šoštan) (dialectal, Afghanistan)

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šustan /⁠HLLWN-tn'⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *xšawd- (to wash), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáwd- (to crush, disperse), traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *k⁽ʷ⁾sewd- (to crush, disintegrate), though Cheung has reservations on this derivation due to the wide semantic divergence of the PIE root's alleged descendants.[1]

Compare Gilaki شوردن (šurdən), Mazanderani بشوردن (bašurdan).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? šustan
Dari reading? šustan
Iranian reading? šostan
Tajik reading? šustan

Verb edit

Dari شستن
Iranian Persian
Tajik шустан

شُستَن (šostan) (present stem شوی (šuy) or شور (šur))

  1. to wash
    او دارد دستش را می‌شوید. (more literary)
    u dârad dast-aš râ mi-šuyad.
    He/She is washing his/her hand.
    اون داره دستش رو می‌شوره. (more colloquial)
    un dâre dast-aš o mi-šure.
    He/She is washing his/her hand.

Usage notes edit

  • The formal and literary present/imperfective stem is شوی (šuy), but in colloquial speech, شور (šur) is more common.

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 455-6