خندیدن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (hndytn' /⁠xandīdan⁠/, “to laugh”), from Proto-Iranian *xand- (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʰendʰ- (“to be joyous”). Cognate with Sogdian [script needed] (γnt- /⁠xand-⁠/, “to laugh”), Northern Kurdish kenîn (“to laugh”), Khotanese khan- (“to laugh”), Baluchi کندگ (kandag, “to laugh”), and Old Armenian խինդ (xind, “joy, mirth”).[1] The root may be partially onomatopoeic in origin; compare also Sanskrit कख् (kakh, “to laugh”), Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō, “I laugh”), Latin cachinnō (“laugh loudly”), Proto-Slavic *xoxotati (“to laugh loudly”), Lithuanian kikénti (“to giggle”).[2]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xän̪.d̪iː.d̪ǽn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [xän̪.d̪iː.d̪ǽn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [xän̪.d̪i.d̪ǽn]

Readings
Classical reading? xandīḏan
Dari reading? xandīdan
Iranian reading? xandidan
Tajik reading? xandidan

Verb

Dari خندیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik хандидан

خندیدن • (xandidan) (present stem خند (xand))

  1. to laugh

Conjugation

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “խինդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  2. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 442-3
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