کردن

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Persian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

New Persian kardan, kun-, from Middle Persian kyrd, kwn-, from Old Persian kar- (to do, make, build), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kar- (to do, make), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (to do, make, construct). Modern Indo-Iranian cognates include Ossetian кӕнын (kænyn), конд (kond), Pashto كول (kawël, krël), Baluchi kan-, ku(r)t-, Kurdish kirin, ki-, Zazaki kerdiš, ken-, and Hindustani करना / کرنا (karnā).

The generic root for "to do, make" has developed in a wide range of specific activities, which have been preserved in old derivations such as: سگالیدن (segâlidan, to think meditate), پیکار (peykâr, picture, statue), نگاشتن (negâštan, to paint), انگاشتن (engâštan, to suppose; believe, consider), انگاریدن (angâridan, to think, imagine; paint, figure).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • Harakat: كَردَن
  • IPA: /kæɾˈdæn/, [kʲæɾˈd̪æn]
  • (file)
  • (dialectal, Mashhad, Yazd, Shiraz: some people, Bushehr, Hamadan, Abadeh, Khesht, Konartakhteh, Dashtestan) IPA: /keɾˈdæn/, [kʲeɾˈd̪æn]

Verb [edit]

Dari کردن
Iranian Persian کردن
Tajik кардан

کردن (kardan), present stem کن (kon)

  1. to do
  2. to make
  3. (vulgar) to engage in a sexual act with

Usage notes [edit]

کردن (kardan) is often used to make verbs from nouns and adjectives. The resulting compound verb is conjugated as shown below with the invariant prefix.

Conjugation [edit]

Derived terms [edit]

References [edit]

  • کردن in Hayyim, Sulayman (1934-1936), New Persian-English dictionary (Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Beroukhim)
  • کردن in Francis Joseph Steingass (1892), A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary (London: Routledge & K. Paul)