چمیدن

Persian

Etymology

Compare Baluchi چمگ (čamag, to shake, dance), Parthian [script needed] (cm-, to walk, move), Khotanese [script needed] (tcāma-, leaping insect, grasshopper). And also Old Armenian ճեմ (čem, walk), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /t͡ʃamiˈdan/

Verb

Dari چمیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik чамидан (čamidan)

چمیدن (čamidan), present stem چم (čam)

  1. to strut, walk proudly
  2. to flaunt

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), چمیدن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), چمیدن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007), *čam”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 32
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