وزیدن

From Middle Persian (wc-ytn' /⁠wazīdan⁠/, “to move; to blow”), from Proto-Iranian *wájati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́ʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to ride”). Compare Northern Kurdish bezîn (“to run”), bazdan (“to run”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vazaⁱti, “to move, to drive a chariot”), Sanskrit वहति (vahati, “to carry, transport; to blow (of wind)”), Latin vehō (“to carry, to transport”), Old Church Slavonic вести (vesti, “to carry, to convey”), Old English wegan (“to carry, to bear”) (whence modern English weigh).^[1]

وزیدن • (vazidan) (present stem وز (vaz))

1. (intransitive, of wind) to blow, to bluster
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 87:

     تا وزیدست برو از تو نسیم ادبی
     زنده گشتست مگر از دم عیسی لاله

     tā wazīdast bar ō az tō nasīm-i adabī
     zinda gaštast magar az dam-i īsā lāla

     As long as courteous breezes from you have wafted upon it,
     The tulip has become alive, as if from Jesus's breath.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)