نوشتن

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See also: نوسبن

Persian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian npštn' (nibištan, write).

Seems to be a compound. If so, the elements are *ni- and *peyḱ-, meaning paint down. Compare Proto-Indo-European *ni- and *peyḱ-.

Pronunciation

Dari نوشتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik навиштан

Template:fa-pronunciation

Verb

نوشتن (naveštan, neveštan) (present stem نویس (navis, nevis))

  1. to write

Conjugation

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “nibištan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 59.
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, pages 335, 356.