خفتان

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xaf.ˈtɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäf.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäf.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xäf.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xäf.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xæf.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χäf.t̪ʰɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	xaftān
Dari reading?	xaftān
Iranian reading?	xaftân
Tajik reading?	xafton

Noun

Dari	خفتان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хафтон

خفتان • (xaftân)

1. tunic worn under armour; caftan

Descendants

• → Malay: kaftan
  • Indonesian: kaftan
• → Ottoman Turkish: قفتان
  • Turkish: kaftan
  • → Armenian: խաֆթան (xaftʻan)
  • → Macedonian: кафтан (kaftan)
  • → Romanian: caftan
  • → Russian: кафта́н (kaftán)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: ка̀фтан
    • Latin script: kàftan

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خفتان”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خفتان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul