دیدن

See also: ديدن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dytn' /didan/), from Proto-Iranian *daiH- (to look, see).[1] Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬌𐬜𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (diδāiti) and Old Armenian դէտ (dēt), ճշմարիտ (čšmarit), օրէն (ōrēn), օրինակ (ōrinak), -արէն (-arēn), all borrowed from Iranian languages.

This verb's present stem is suppletive, it is from Middle Persian wēn-, the present stem of dīdan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to see).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /diˈdan/

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Verb

Dari دیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik дидан (didan)

دیدَن (didan), present stem بین (bin)

  1. to see, to look
    آیا می‌خواهی چیزِ شگفت‌انگیزی ببینی؟ (more literary)
    âyâ mi-xâhi čiz-e šegeft-angiz-i be-bini?
    می‌خوای یه چیزِ شگفت‌انگیز ببینی؟ (more colloquial)
    mi-xây ye čiz-e šegeft-angiz be-bini?
    Do you want to see something wonderful?
    • c. 1260, Rumi, “1:966”, in The Masnavi:
      گفت من از خشم کی کردم نظر؟ از تعجب دیدمش در رهگذر
      goft: man az xešm key kardam nazar? az ta'ajjob didam-aš dar rahgozar.
      [Azrael] said, "When did I cast glances [at him] with anger? I saw him with wonderment, while passing by."
  2. to view
  3. to behold, to witness, to observe
  4. to perceive, to understand, to comprehend
  5. to distinguish, to recognize
  6. to sense, to feel

Conjugation

Derived terms

Persian compound verbs with دیدن

References

  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 49
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