کشتن

See also: گشتن‎ and كسبن‎

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/kuštan/), from Proto-Iranian *kawš- (“to fight, kill”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kawš-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to hit, strike”) with s-extension.

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /kʊʃtan/

    Verb

    Dari کشتن
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik куштан (kuštan)

    کُشتَن • (koštan), present stem کُش‎ (koš)

    1. to kill, to murder
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume III, verse 3180:
        ‏کو غلام ما مگر سرگشته شد / یا بدو گرگی رسید و کشته شد‎
        ku ğolâm-e mâ magar sargašte šod / yâ bad-u gorg-i rasid o košte šod
        Where is my slave? Perchance he has lost his way, or a wolf has overtaken him and he has been killed.
      • c. 1650, Muḥammad Ṭāhir Ğanī Kašmīrī, Mufti Mudasir Farooqi & Nusrat Bazaz, in The Captured Gazelle: The Poems of Ghani Kashmiri (Penguin Classics, 2013), transl., دیوان [Divān]:
        ‏عاشقان را جنبش مژگان چشم یار کشت.‎‎
        'âšeqân râ jonbeš-e možgân-e čašm-e yâr košt.
        The beloved’s fluttering eyelashes have slain many a lover.
    2. to put out
    3. to switch off
    4. (of emotions) to suppress
    Conjugation

    Etymology 2

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    Pronunciation

      • (Dari): IPA(key): /kɪʃtan/

      Verb

      Dari کشتن
      Iranian Persian
      Tajik киштан (kištan)

      کِشتَن • (keštan), present stem کار‎ (kâr)

      1. to sow
      2. to plant
      3. to cultivate
      Conjugation
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