گزیدن

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (gzytn' /⁠gazīdan⁠/). Cognate with Gilaki (gaštən) (present stem: (gaz)). Compare Old Armenian գազան (gazan), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation


Iranian Persian	گزیدن
Dari	گزیدن
Tajik	газидан

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Readings
Classical reading^?	gazīḏan
Dari reading^?	gazīdan
Iranian reading^?	gazidan
Tajik reading^?	gazidan

Verb

گزیدن • (gazidan) (present stem گز (gaz))

(transitive, literary) to bite
Synonym: گاز گرفتن (gâz gereftan)
(transitive) to sting
Synonym: نیش زدن (niš zadan)

Derived terms

گزنده (gazande)

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian (/⁠wizīdan⁠/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pay”).

Compare Baluchi (gechén, “choice”), and Old Armenian վճիտ (včit), an Iranian borrowing.

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Classical reading^?	guzīḏan
Dari reading^?	guzīdan
Iranian reading^?	gozidan
Tajik reading^?	guzidan

Verb

گزیدن • (gozidan) (present stem گزین (gozin))

(transitive) to choose
Synonym: انتخاب کردن (entexâb kardan)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 2938:
  بر نویس احوال پیر راهدان
  پیر را بگزین و عین راه دان
  bar nawîs ahwâl-i-pîr-i-râdân
  pîr râ bi-guzîn u 'ayn-i-râh dân
  Write down what appertains to the Pír (Guide) who knows the Way: Choose the Pír and regard him as the essence of the Way.
(transitive, archaic) to prefer
Synonym: ترجیح دادن (tarjih dâdan)

Derived terms

برگزیدن (bar-gozidan)
گزینه (gozine)
گزینش (gozineš)

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “گزیدن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wizīdan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 93
Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*čai”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 27

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