See also: خزیدن and خریدن

Persian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *čárHati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čálHati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (to move; to turn (around)).[1][2]

Indo-Iranian cognates include Ossetian цӕрын (cæryn, to live), Pashto څرېدل (śaredal, to pasture, graze), Avestan 𐬗𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬥𐬍 (carānī, I move, approach), and Sanskrit चरति (cárati, he moves). More distantly related to Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), Latin colō, Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, wheel).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? čarīḏan
Dari reading? čarīdan
Iranian reading? čaridan
Tajik reading? čaridan

Verb

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Dari چریدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik чаридан

چریدن (čaridan) (present stem چر (čar))

  1. (intransitive) to graze, to pasture

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 34
  2. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 227-8