زدن

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Arabic

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Verb

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زِدْنَ (zidna) (form I) /zid.na/

  1. inflection of زَادَ (zāda):
    1. third-person feminine plural past active/passive
    2. second-person feminine plural imperative

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (MHYTWN-n /⁠zadan⁠/) (root [script needed] (zn- /⁠zan-⁠/)), from Old Persian 𐎩𐎫𐎡𐎹 (j-t-i-y /⁠jaⁿtiy⁠/, to strike, defeat) (root [Term?] (/⁠ja(n)-⁠/)), from Proto-Iranian *ǰánti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰʰánti (to slay, strike).[1] Cognate with Younger Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬌𐬧𐬙𐬌 (jaiṇti), Sanskrit हन्ति (hánti), English fend.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? zaḏan
Dari reading? zadan
Iranian reading? zadan
Tajik reading? zadan

Verb

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Dari زدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik задан

زَدَن (zadan) (present stem ﺯَن (zan))

  1. to beat, hit, strike
  2. to play (an instrument)
    من پیانو می‌زنم و دوست من گیتار می‌زند. (more literary)
    man piyâno mi-zanam va dust-e man gitâr mi-zanad.
    من پیانو می‌زنم و دوستم گیتار می‌زنه. (more colloquial)
    man piyâno mi-zanam o dustam gitâr mi-zane.
    I play piano and my friend plays guitar.
  3. to bite
  4. (slang) to drink

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*ǰan”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 224