Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kwhš-ytn' /⁠kōxšīdan⁠/, to strive; to struggle; to endeavor), from Proto-Iranian *kawš- (to fight, kill) (whence also کشتن (koštan, to kill)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kawš-, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (to hit, strike) with s-extension.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? kōšīḏan
Dari reading? kōšīdan
Iranian reading? kušidan
Tajik reading? küšidan
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Verb edit

کوشیدن (kušidan) (present stem کوش (kuš))

  1. (formal) to try; to strive; to endeavor
    Synonym: کوشش کردن (kušeš kardan)
    • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 5”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎[1]:
      هنگام تنگ‌دستی در عیش کوش و مستی
      کاین کیمیای هستی قارون کند گدا را
      hangâm-i tang-dastî dar ayš kôš u mastî
      k-în kîmîyâ-yi hastî qârûn kunad gadâ râ
      In times of pennilessness, endeavor in pleasure and drunkenness,
      For this elixir of being makes a Korah [an exceedingly rich person] out of a beggar.
      (romanization in Classical Persian)

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 215
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251-2