نوشتن

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word نوشتن. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word نوشتن, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say نوشتن in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word نوشتن you have here. The definition of the word نوشتن will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofنوشتن, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: نوسبن

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Middle Persian npštn' (nibištan, to write), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ní (downwards, into) + Middle Persian *pištan-, the latter from Old Persian *pi⁽ⁿ⁾θ-, from Proto-Iranian *pais- (to adorn, paint, write), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (to cut out; to stitch; to paint, mark).[1] Doublet of نِبی (nibī, scripture), and cognate with Russian написать (napisatʹ, to write) and English paint, picture.[2]

    Pronunciation

    Readings
    Classical reading? nawištan, niwištan
    Dari reading? nawištan
    Iranian reading? neveštan
    Tajik reading? navištan

    Verb

    Dari نوشتن
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik навиштан

    نِوِشْتَن (neveštan) (present stem نویس (navis, nevis))[3]

    1. to write

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    References

    1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291
    2. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 335; 356
    3. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “nibištan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 59