چشیدن

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *čaš- (to taste).[1] Compare Sanskrit चष् (caṣ, to eat, taste), although Cheung believes this is a late loanword from Iranian.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰä.ʃiː.d̪än]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰä.ʃiː.d̪än]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰä.ʃi.d̪än]

Readings
Classical reading? čašīḏan
Dari reading? čašīdan
Iranian reading? češidan
Tajik reading? čašidan

Verb

چشیدن • (češidan) (present stem چش (češ))

  1. to taste
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The Tale of Rustam and Isfandiyār”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]:
      ازان پس که مردار چندی چشید
      برهنه سوی سیستانش کشید
      پذیرفت سامش ز بی‌بچگی
      ز نادانی و دیوی و غرچگی
      az ān pas ki murdār-i čandē čašīd
      barahna sōy-i sīstān-aš kašīd
      paḏīruft sām-aš zi bē-baččagī
      zi nādānī u dēwī u ğarčagī
      After he had tasted a few corpses,
      It brought him naked towards Sīstān.
      Sām accepted him out of infertility,
      And out of ignorance and craziness and stupidity.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. (figurative) to experience, to try

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: çeşid
  • Turkish: çeşit

References

  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35
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