خفتن

خِفْتُنَّ • (ḵiftunna) (form I)

1. second-person feminine plural past active of خَافَ‎ (ḵāfa)
2. second-person feminine plural past passive of خَافَ‎ (ḵāfa)

From Parthian, From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭠𐭡‎ (ḥʿʾb /xvāb/), from Proto-Iranian *hwápati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swap-, from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”). Compare Manichaean Parthian xwsp-‎ (xusp-), Northern Kurdish xew, xewn, Russian спать (spatʹ)و and Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”), whence hypnosis.

• IPA^(key): [xofˈt̪ʰæn]

خفتن • (xoftan) (present stem خسپ‎ (xosp))

1. (archaic) to sleep

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “خفتن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xuftan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “xwsp-”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols