See also: ديدن

Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (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).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dīḏan
Dari reading? dīdan
Iranian reading? didan
Tajik reading? didan
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Verb

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Dari دیدن
Iranian Persian
Tajik дидан

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.
      [Azrael] said, "When did I cast glances [at him] 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

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Gujarati: દીદ (dīd)

References

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  1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 49