شکیفتن

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Persian

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Readings
Classical reading? šikēftan
Dari reading? šikēftan
Iranian reading? šekiftan
Tajik reading? šikeftan

Verb

Dari شکیفتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik шикефтан

شکیفتن (šekiftan) (present stem شکیب (šekib))

  1. to be patient, wait
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 76:
      خاک درگاهت دلم را میفریفت
      خاک بر وی کاو ز خاکت میشکیفت
      xāk-i dargāh-at dil-am rā mē-farēft
      xāk bar way k-ō za xāk-at mē-šikēft
      The dust of thy threshold was bewitching my heart:
      dust (woe) on him that was patient without thy dust!
  2. to tolerate

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