Persian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (kwp-tn' /⁠Kōftan, kōb-⁠/, beat, pound, trash) + Middle Persian [script needed] (-ytn' /⁠-īdan⁠/, a suffix forming secondary infinitives), from Proto-Iranian *kaup- (to pound, beat), which appears to be exclusively Iranian. See also کوفتن (kuftan, to break, bruise).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? kōḇīḏan
Dari reading? kōbīdan
Iranian reading? kubidan
Tajik reading? kübidan

Verb

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Dari کوبیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik кӯбидан

کوبیدن (kôbidan) (present stem کوب (kôb))

  1. to beat, to pound, to thrash
  2. to hammer
  3. to stamp

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “Kōftan, kōb-”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 51
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “-īdan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 45
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 249-250