See also: خزیدن and خریدن

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *čárHati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čálHati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (to move; to turn (around)).[1][2]

Indo-Iranian cognates include Ossetian цӕрын (cæryn, to live), Pashto څرېدل (śaredal, to pasture, graze), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬥𐬍 (carānī, I move, approach), and Sanskrit चरति (cárati, he moves). More distantly related to Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), Latin colō, Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, wheel).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? čarīḏan
Dari reading? čarīdan
Iranian reading? čaridan
Tajik reading? čaridan

Verb edit

Dari چریدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik чаридан

چریدن (čaridan) (present stem چر (čar))

  1. (intransitive) to graze, to pasture

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 34
  2. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 227-8