سپوختن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (spwhtn', spwc- /⁠spōxtan, spōz-⁠/, “to thrust; to overstep, disobey; to delay, reject”). Compare Old Armenian սպուժեմ (spužem), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [su.puːx.ˈtan], [si.puːx.ˈtan]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.pʰuːx.t̪ʰǽn], [sɪ.pʰuːx.t̪ʰǽn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊ.pʰuːx.t̪ʰǽn], [sɪ.pʰuːx.t̪ʰǽn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.pʰux.t̪ʰǽn], [su.pʰux.t̪ʰǽn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [so.pʰuːx.t̪ʰǽn], [se.pʰuːx.t̪ʰǽn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [su.pʰuχ.t̪ʰǽn], [si.pʰuχ.t̪ʰǽn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	supūxtan, sipūxtan
Dari reading^?	supūxtan, sipūxtan
Iranian reading^?	sopuxtan, sepuxtan
Tajik reading^?	supuxtan, sipuxtan

Verb


Iranian Persian	سپوختن
Dari	سپوختن
Tajik	сипухтан

سپوختن • (sepuxtan) (present stem سپوز (sepuz))

(archaic) to thrust, poke, press, penetrate
- 8th Century CE, Abu'l-Abbas Marwazi
  تخم محنت بپاش در گلشان
  خنجر کین سپوز در دلشان
  toxm-e mehnat bepâš dar gelešân
  xanjar-e kin sepuz dar delešân
  Sow their lives with seeds of misery!
  Penetrate the dagger of grudge in their hearts!
Synonyms: سُفتن (softan), خَلیدن (xalidan), فرو کردن (foru kardan), سوراخ کردن (surâx kardan)
(archaic) to sodomize
- 1920s, Iraj Mirza, Arefnameh
  چو باشد مُلک ایران محشر خر
  خر نر می‌سپوزد بر خر نر
  čo bâšad molk-e irân mahšar-e xar / xar-e nar mi-sepuzad bar xar-e nar
  As long as Iran is the dominion of donkeys (metaphor: pederasts) / the male donkey sodomizes the male donkey!
Synonyms: گاییدن (gâyidan), مُرزیدن (morzidan)

Conjugation

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Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 357
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 76
Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سپوختن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
ʿAmīd, Ḥasan (1985) “سپوختن”, in Farhang-e Fārsī-e ʿAmīd (in Persian), Tehrān: Amīrkabīr