کوشیدن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kwhš-ytn' /kōxšīdan/, “to strive; to struggle; to endeavor”), from Proto-Iranian *kawš- (“to fight, kill”), whence also کشتن‎ (koštan, “to kill”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /kɵʃidan/

Verb

کوشیدن • (kušidan) (present stem کوش‎ (kuš))

  1. (formal) to try; to strive; to endeavor
    Synonym: کوشش کردن‎ (kušeš kardan)
    • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 5”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎:
      ‏هنگام تنگ‌دستی در عیش کوش و مستی
      کاین کیمیای هستی قارون کند گدا را
      ‎
      hangâm-i tang-dastî dar ayš kôš u mastî
      k-în kîmîyâ-yi hastî qârûn kunad gadâ râ
      In times of pennilessness, endeavor in pleasure and drunkenness,
      For this elixir of being makes a Korah [an exceedingly rich person] out of a beggar.
      (romanization in Classical Persian)

Conjugation

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