کپیدن

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ka.piː.ˈðan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.pʰiː.d̪ǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.pʰiː.d̪ǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰä.pʰiː.d̪ǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰä.pʰi.d̪ǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲæ.pʰiː.d̪ǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰä.pʰi.d̪ǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	kapīḏan
Dari reading?	kapīdan
Iranian reading?	kapidan
Tajik reading?	kapidan

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kap- or perhaps related to Turkish kapmak.

Verb

کپیدن • (kapidan) (present stem کپ (kap))

1. to snatch, steal, seize
   • 10th century, Abu-l-Qasim Hasan 'Unsurī Balkhī, فَرْهَنْگِ جَهَانْگِیرِی [farhang-i jahāngīrī]:

     در خون جگر بسی تپیدم
     تا بوسه‌ای از لبش کپیدم

     dar xūn-i jigar ba-sī tapīdam
     tā būsa-ē az labaš kapīdam

     My heart beat for them, until I stole a kiss from their lips

2. to take, pick up

Etymology 2

Verb

کپیدن • (kapidan) (present stem کپ (kap))

1. (daevic) to sleep

Etymology 3

Related to کپه (koppe) (see there for further information), compare also Central Kurdish کۆپ (kop, “crest, peak, summit”), گەبە (gebe, “mumps”), and Arabic قبة, which is an Iranian borrowing.

Verb

کپیدن • (kapidan) (present stem کپ (kap))

1. to pile up

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “کپیدن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کپیدن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 136