ایستادن

From Middle Persian (istātan), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *staH- (“to place, stand”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *staH-, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).^[1]

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ایستادن • (istâdan) (present stem ایست (ist))

1. to stand up

   Antonym: نشستن (nešastan, “to sit down”)

   من ایستاده‌ام. ― man istâde-'am. ― I'm standing. (literally, “I've stood up.”)

2. to stop
3. to stay, to remain

• ایستادن (istâdan) refers to the action of standing up, not the state of standing. Hence the Persian equivalent for English "to stand" is the perfect conjugation of ایستادن (istâdan), i.e. "to have stood up". The same is true of نشستن (nešastan, “to sit down”).
• Speakers in Afghanistan, especially in informal contexts, tend to compound verbs even if they have independent conjugations. So speakers from Afghanistan will more often say ایستاد شدن (īstād šudan) and ایستاد کردن (īstād kardan) than the verb forms provided below.