دیدن

From Middle Persian (dytn' /⁠didan⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *daiH- (“to look, see”).^[1] Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬌𐬜𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (diδāⁱti) and Old Armenian դէտ (dēt), ճշմարիտ (čšmarit), օրէն (ōrēn), օրինակ (ōrinak), -արէն (-arēn), all borrowed from Iranian languages, as well as Sanskrit ध्यै (dhyai, “to contemplate, meditate, think of”), whence ध्यान (dhyāna, “meditation, thought”); see ध्यै (dhyai) for more on the root.

This verb's present stem is suppletive, it is from Middle Persian wēn-, the present stem of dīdan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

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دیدَن • (didan) (present stem بین (bin))

1. to see, to look

   آیا می‌خواهی چیزِ شگفت‌انگیزی ببینی؟ (more literary)

   âyâ mi-xâhi čiz-e šegeft-angiz-i be-bini?

   می‌خوای یه چیزِ شگفت‌انگیز ببینی؟ (more colloquial)

   mi-xây ye čiz-e šegeft-angiz be-bini?

   Do you want to see something wonderful?

   • c. 1260, Rumi, “1:966”, in The Masnavi:

     گفت من از خشم کی کردم نظر؟ از تعجب دیدمش در رهگذر

     goft: man az xešm key kardam nazar? az ta'ajjob didam-aš dar rahgozar.

     said, "When did I cast glances with anger? I saw him with wonderment, while passing by."

2. to view
3. to behold, to witness, to observe
4. to perceive, to understand, to comprehend
5. to distinguish, to recognize
6. to sense, to feel

• دیدار (didâr)

• → Gujarati: દીદ (dīd)