شکستن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian škstn' (škastan, “to break”), from Proto-Iranian *sčand / *skand- (“to break, cleave”), from a blend of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ke(n)dh₂ (“to shatter, scatter”) (whence Ancient Greek σκίδνημι (skídnēmi, “I scatter, strew”)) and Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, tear”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʃɪ.kʰäs.t̪ʰǽn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʃɪ.kʰäs.t̪ʰǽn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʃi.kʰäs.t̪ʰǽn]

Readings
Classical reading? šikastan
Dari reading? šikastan
Iranian reading? šekastan
Tajik reading? šikastan

Verb

شکستن • (šekastan) (present stem شکن (šekan))

  1. (in general, of an object, a law, a promise, silence, etc.) to break

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 342-3
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.