شکفتن

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Persian

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Etymology

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Related to شکوفه (šokufe, blossom)

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? šikuftan
Dari reading? šikuftan
Iranian reading? šekoftan
Tajik reading? šikuftan
Dari شکفتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik шукуфтан

Noun

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شکفتن (šekoftan) (present stem شکف (šekof))

  1. to open, to bloom, to blossom, to flourish
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3828:
      رسته‌‌ای از کفر و خارستان او
      چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو
      rasta-ī az kufr u xārestān ō
      čōn gul-ē bi-šikufta dar bastān-i hū
      Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket:
      blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).

Conjugation

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