گزیدن

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gzytn' /gazīdan/). Cognate with Gilaki گشتن‎ (gaštən) (present stem: گز‎ (gaz)). Compare Old Armenian գազան (gazan), an Iranian borrowing.

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ɡaziːdan/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɡaziːdan/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɡæziːdæn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ɡazidan/

گزیدن • (gazidan), present stem گز‎ (gaz)

1. (transitive, literary) to bite

   Synonym: گاز گرفتن‎ (gâz gereftan)

2. (transitive) to sting

   Synonym: نیش زدن‎ (niš zadan)

• گزنده‎ (gazande)

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/wizīdan/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pay”).

Compare Baluchi گچین‎ (gechén, “choice”), and Old Armenian վճիտ (včit), an Iranian borrowing.

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /ɡuziːdan/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /ɡʊziːdan/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɡoziːdæn/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /ɡuzidan/

گزیدن • (gozidan), present stem گزین‎ (gozin)

1. (transitive) to choose

   Synonym: انتخاب کردن‎ (entexâb kardan)

2. (transitive, archaic) to prefer

   Synonym: ترجیح دادن‎ (tarjih dâdan)

• برگزیدن‎ (bar-gozidan)
• گزینه‎ (gozine)
• گزینش‎ (gozineš)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “گزیدن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wizīdan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 93
• Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*čai”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 27