گداختن

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (wtʾhtn' /⁠widāxtan⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wi- + *taHč- (to melt), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂-k- (to melt). Compare Ancient Greek τήκω (tḗkō, to melt).

Pronunciation

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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ɡʊ.d̪ɑːx.t̪ʰǽn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ɡʊ.d̪ɑːx.t̪ʰǽn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ɡu.d̪ɔːx.t̪ʰǽn]

Readings
Classical reading? guḏāxtan
Dari reading? gudāxtan
Iranian reading? godâxtan
Tajik reading? gudoxtan

Verb

Dari گداختن
Iranian Persian
Tajik гудохтан

گداختن • (godâxtan) (present stem گداز (godâz))

  1. (transitive or intransitive) to melt; to turn to liquid; to thaw
    Synonyms: آب کردن (âb kardan), ذوب کردن (zowb kardan)
  2. (transitive, figurative) to destroy; to consume
  3. (intransitive, figurative) to be consumed; to be wasted
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 202:
      بعد از آن از بهر او شربت بساخت
      تا بخورد و پیش دختر می‌‌گداخت
      ba'd az ān az bahr-i ō šarbat bisāxt
      tā bixwarad u pēš-i doxtar mē-gudāxt
      Thereafter he prepared for him a potion, so that when he drank it he began to dwindle away before the girl.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Conjugation

Further reading

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