Persian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *čam- (to walk), perhaps a blend of Proto-Iranian *čarH- (to come and go, wander) and *gam- (to come), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čálH- (to move, wander) + Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (to step, come) respectively.[1] Compare Baluchi چمگ (čamag, to shake, dance), Parthian [script needed] (cm-, to walk, move), Khotanese [script needed] (tcāma-, leaping insect, grasshopper), Old Armenian ճեմ (čem, walk) (an Iranian borrowing), and perhaps Sanskrit चमूरु (camūru, a kind of deer, an antelope).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? čamīḏan
Dari reading? čamīdan
Iranian reading? čamidan
Tajik reading? čamidan

Verb

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Dari چمیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik чамидан

چمیدن (čamidan) (present stem چم (čam))[2][3]

  1. to strut, walk proudly
  2. to flaunt

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*čam”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 32
  2. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چمیدن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  3. ^ Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “چمیدن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim