گواشتن

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Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian gwkl'-tn' (gugārīdan), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wi (apart) + *kʷer- (to do, make, construct); literally meaning “to do away”.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? guwāštan
Dari reading? guwāštan
Iranian reading? govâštan
Tajik reading? guvoštan

Verb

گواشتن (govâštan) (present stem گوار (govâr))

  1. to digest
  2. to absorb

Conjugation

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gwkl'-tn'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 38
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 262