паймудан

Tajik

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Persian پَیْمُودَن (paymūdan). For the development of the sense "to relate, tell" compare Old Armenian պատմեմ (patmem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /päjmudän/, [pʰäjmud̪än]

Verb

паймудан • (paymudan) (present stem паймо)

1. to measure
2. to traverse, to travel through, to pass; to swim; to fly
3. to test, to try
4. to search
5. (literary) to relate, to tell, to narrate, to recount

References

• Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 323–324