Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian pd (pad, to, at) + ẔNE (ēn, this) + dʾštn' (dāštan, to hold/have). Compare Middle Persian pd HNA dʾštn' (pad ēd dāštan, to consider, literally to this to hold/have).

Verb edit

پنداشتن (pendâštan) (present stem پندار (pendâr))

  1. to think
  2. to suppose

Conjugation edit

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References edit

  • Horn, Paul (1898–1901) “Neupersische Schriftsprache [New Persian written language]”, in Geiger, Wilhelm, Kuhn, Ernst, editors, Grundriß der iranischen Philologie [Outline of Iranian Philology] (in German), volume I, part II, Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, page 158
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 21
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 25