سگالیدن

From Middle Persian ‘wsk’l-tn' (uskārdan, “to think, consider”). Ultimately a derivation of Proto-Indo-Iranian *kar- (“to do, make, construct”).
Related to نگاشتن (negâštan, “to write, to inscribe”), کردن (kardan, “to do, make, fix”), etc..

سگالیدن • (segâlidan)

1. (literary) to think, consider, discuss
   • 9th century, Firdowsi, Shahnameh

     تو بیکاری و جان بکار اندر دارد
     سر بد سگالت به دار اندر است

     tu be-kâr-î u jân ba kâr andar dârad
     sar-î bad-sigâl-at ba dâr andar dârad

   Synonyms: اندیشیدن (andišidan), فکر کردن (fekr kardan)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سگالیدن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سگال”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “‘wsk’l-tn'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85