گریستن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠griyistan⁠/). Compare Northern Kurdish girîn, Northern Luri گرێڤسن (gerêvesen).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡi.ɾiːs.ˈtan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɪ.ɾiːs.t̪ʰǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡɪ.ɾiːs.t̪ʰǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡɪ.ɾiːs.t̪ʰǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡi.ɾis.t̪ʰǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʲe.ɹiːs.t̪ʰǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡi.ɾis.t̪ʰǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	girīstan
Dari reading?	girīstan
Iranian reading?	geristan
Tajik reading?	giristan

Verb

Dari	گریستن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	гиристан

گریستن • (geristan) (present stem گری (gery))

1. (intransitive) to cry, to weep

   Synonyms: گریه کردن (gerye kardan), اشک ریختن (ašk rixtan)

Derived terms

• گریان (geryân)
• گریاندن (geryândan)
• گریه (gerye)

 

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “گریستن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 37

Further reading

• Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*garz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112