خفتن

Arabic

Verb

خِفْتُنَّ • (ḵiftunna) (form I) /xif.tun.na/

1. second-person feminine plural past active/passive of خَافَ (ḵāfa)

Persian

Alternative forms

• خسپیدن (xospidan)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠xuftan⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *hwápati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swap-, from Proto-Indo-European *swep- (“to sleep”). Compare Manichaean Parthian xwsp- (xusp-), Vedic Sanskrit स्वपति (svapati), Classical Sanskrit स्वपिति (svapiti), Northern Kurdish xew, xewn, Russian спать (spatʹ) and Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”), whence hypnosis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xuf.tan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊf.t̪ʰän]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xʊf.t̪ʰän]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xʊf.t̪ʰän]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xuf.t̪ʰän]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xof.t̪ʰæn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χuf.t̪ʰän]

Readings
Classical reading?	xuftan
Dari reading?	xuftan
Iranian reading?	xoftan
Tajik reading?	xuftan

Verb

Dari	خفتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хуфтан

خفتن • (xoftan) (present stem خسپ (xosp))

1. (archaic) to sleep

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خفتن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xuftan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “xwsp-”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols