درگذشتن

Persian

Etymology

From در (dar) +‎ گذشتن (gozaštan).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [daɾ.ɡu.ðaʃ.ˈtan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ɡʊ.zäʃ.t̪ʰǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ɡʊ.zäʃ.t̪ʰǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ɡʊ.zäʃ.t̪ʰǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ɡu.zäʃ.t̪ʰǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æɹ.ɡo.zæʃ.t̪ʰǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ɡu.zäʃ.t̪ʰǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	dar-guḏaštan
Dari reading?	dar-guzaštan
Iranian reading?	dar-gozaštan
Tajik reading?	dar-guzaštan

Verb

Dari	درگذشتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	даргузаштан

درگذشتن • (dargozaštan)

1. to pass away

   نه سالم بود وقتی پدربزرگم درگذشتند.

   noh sâlam bud vaqti pedarbozorgam dargozaštand.

   I was nine years old when my grandfather passed away.

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 330”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     چنین که در دل من داغ زلف سرکش توست
     بنفشه زار شود تربتم چو درگذرم

     čunīn ki dar dil-i man dāğ-i zulf-i sarkaš-i tu-st
     banafša zār šawad turbatam čū darguzaram

     The sear of your unruly tresses upon my heart is such
     That my grave shall become a field of violets [of a bloody color] when I pass away.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Related terms

• درگذشته (dar-gozašte)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “درگذشتن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim