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Arabic
Verb
خِفْتُنَّ • (ḵiftunna) (form I) /xif.tun.na/
- second-person feminine plural past active/passive of خَافَ (ḵāfa)
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (/xuftan/), from Proto-Iranian *hwápati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swap-, from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”). Compare Manichaean Parthian xwsp- (xusp-), Vedic Sanskrit स्वपति (svapati), Classical Sanskrit स्वपिति (svapiti), Northern Kurdish xew, xewn, Russian спать (spatʹ) and Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”), whence hypnosis.
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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xuftan
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| Dari reading?
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xuftan
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| Iranian reading?
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xoftan
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| Tajik reading?
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xuftan
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Verb
| Dari
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خفتن
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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хуфтан
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خفتن • (xoftan) (present stem خسپ (xosp))
- (archaic) to sleep
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خفتن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xuftan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “xwsp-”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols