پیمودن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ptmwtn', ptmʾd- /paymūdan, paymāy-/, “to measure”), ultimately from *pati- and *maH- (“to measure”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫛𐫅𐫖𐫀𐫅𐫗‎‎ (padmādan, “to measure”), Northern Kurdish pîvan (“to measure”), Sogdian [script needed] (ptmʾtʾy /patmātē/, “measured, frugal”). Akin to Old Armenian պատմեմ (patmem, “to tell, narrate”), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /pajmuːdan/

(Dari): IPA^(key): /pajmuːdan/

(Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /pejmuːdæn/
(Tajik): IPA^(key): /pajmudan/

Verb

Dari	پَیمودَن
Iranian Persian	پِیمودَن
Tajik	паймудан (paymudan)

پیمودن • (peymudan) (present stem پیما‎ (peymâ)) (transitive)

to measure
‏‎ ― tul-e ân râ peymud ― he measured its length
to traverse; to travel through
‏‎ ― râhi tulâni râ peymudam ― I traveled a long way
to go through; to undergo
to quaff; to drink
- c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 4”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]:
  ‏چو با حبیب نشینی و باده پیمایی
  به یاد دار محبان بادپیما را‎
  čo bâ habib nešini vo bâde peymâyi
  be yâd dâr mohebbân-e bâdpeymâ râ
  When you sit with the beloved and are quaffing wine, keep in mind the lovers who strive in vain.

Related terms

پیمان‎ (peymân)

References

Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 323–324
Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 363, pages 80–81
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 67