Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (šk’p-tn' /⁠škāftan⁠/), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kop- (to strike, to beat). Related to اشکفت (eškeft).

Compare Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, strike, cut, shake), Old Church Slavonic скопити (skopiti, castrate), Lithuanian kaplys (hatchet), Old High German happa (scythe), English hatchet.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? šikāftan
Dari reading? šikāftan
Iranian reading? šekâftan
Tajik reading? šikoftan

Verb edit

Dari شکافتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik шикофтан

شکافتن (šekâftan) (present stem شکاف (šekâf))

  1. to cleave, cut, incise
  2. to rupture
  3. to split

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