شکیفتن

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? šikēftan
Dari reading? šikēftan
Iranian reading? šekiftan
Tajik reading? šikeftan

Verb

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Dari شکیفتن
Iranian Persian
Tajik шикефтан

شکیفتن (šekiftan) (present stem شکیب (šekib))

  1. to be patient, wait
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 76:
      خاک درگاهت دلم را میفریفت
      خاک بر وی کاو ز خاکت میشکیفت
      xāk-i dargāh-at dil-am rā mē-farēft
      xāk bar way k-ō za xāk-at mē-šikēft
      The dust of thy threshold was bewitching my heart:
      dust (woe) on him that was patient without thy dust!
  2. to tolerate

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