Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wcʾltn' /⁠wizārdan, wizār-⁠/, to separate; to explain, interpret; to perform, fulfil, redeem), from Proto-Iranian *wí (apart) + a causative formation from Proto-Iranian *čarH (to come and go, wander), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wí + Proto-Indo-Iranian *čálHati (to move, wander), the prefix ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wi (apart). Compare Old Armenian վճար (včar), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? guzārdan
Dari reading? guzārdan
Iranian reading? gozârdan
Tajik reading? guzordan

Verb

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گزاردن (gozârdan) (present stem گزار (gozâr))

  1. to express, to announce, to explain
  2. to interpret
  3. to perform
  4. to pay
  5. to put, place

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 92
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*čarH”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 33