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Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (/griyistan/). Compare Northern Kurdish girîn, Northern Luri گرێڤسن (gerêvesen).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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girīstan
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| Dari reading?
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girīstan
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| Iranian reading?
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geristan
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| Tajik reading?
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giristan
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Verb
| Dari
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گریستن
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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гиристан
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گریستن • (geristan) (present stem گری (gery))
- (intransitive) to cry, to weep
- Synonyms: گریه کردن (gerye kardan), اشک ریختن (ašk rixtan)
Derived terms
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “گریستن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 37
Further reading
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*garz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112