کپیدن

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.

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

1. to snatch, steal, seize
   • 10th century, Unsuri, Farhang-e Jahângiri

     ‏در خون جگر بسی تپیدم
     تا بوسه‌ای از لبش کپیدم‎

     dar xôn-î jagar basî tapidam
     tâ bûsa-ê az lab-aš kapidam

2. to take, pick up

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

1. (daevic) to sleep

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.

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

1. to pile up

• 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