کپیدن
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Persian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ka.piː.ˈðan]
- (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
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kap- or perhaps related to Turkish kapmak.
Verb
[edit]کپیدن • (kapidan) (present stem کپ (kap))
- 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
- dar xūn-i jigar ba-sī tapīdam
- to take, pick up
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]کپیدن • (kapidan) (present stem کپ (kap))
- (daevic) to sleep
Etymology 3
[edit]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
[edit]کپیدن • (kapidan) (present stem کپ (kap))
- to pile up
References
[edit]- 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