پیمودن

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ptmwtn', ptmʾd- /⁠paymūdan, paymāy-⁠/, “to measure”), ultimately from *pati- and *maH- (“to measure”), the latter from Proto-Indo-Iranian *maH-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫛𐫅𐫖𐫀𐫅𐫗 (padmādan, “to measure”), Northern Kurdish pîvan (“to measure”), Sogdian [script needed] (ptmʾtʾy /⁠patmātē⁠/, “measured, frugal”). Akin to Old Armenian պատմեմ (patmem, “to tell, narrate”), an Iranian borrowing.

پیمودن • (peymudan) (present stem پیما (peymâ)) (transitive)

1. to measure

   طول آن را پیمود ― tul-e ân râ peymud ― he measured its length

2. to traverse; to travel through

   راهی طولانی را پیمودم ― râhi tulâni râ peymudam ― I traveled a long way

3. to go through; to undergo
4. to quaff; to drink
   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:

     چو با حبیب نشینی و باده پیمایی
     به یاد دار محبان بادپیما را

     čo bâ habib nešini o bâde peymâyi
     be yâd dâr mohebbân-e bâdpeymâ râ

     When you sit with the beloved and are quaffing wine, keep in mind the lovers who strive in vain.

• پیمان (peymân)

• Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 323–324
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 363, pages 80–81
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 67
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*maH1”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256