نواختن

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *ni- + *wač- (to say, speak). The prefix is from Proto-Iranian * (down), from Proto-Indo-Iranian * (down, into), while the second component is from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (to speak, sound out).[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [nä.wɑːx.t̪ʰän]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [nä.wɑːx.t̪ʰän]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [nä.wɔːx.t̪ʰän]

Readings
Classical reading? nawāxtan
Dari reading? nawāxtan
Iranian reading? navâxtan
Tajik reading? navoxtan

Verb

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Iranian Persian
Tajik навохтан

نواختن • (navâxtan) (present stem نواز (navâz))

  1. to caress; to fondle
  2. to play (a musical instrument)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume VI, verse 1657:
      چنگیی را کو نوازد بیست و چار / چون نیابد گوش گردد چنگ بار
      čangi-yi râ k-u navâzad bist o čâr / čon na-yâbad guš gardad čang bâr
      When the harpist who plays the four-and-twenty [musical modes] finds no ear [to listen], his harp becomes a burden.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Gujarati: નવાજવું (navājvũ)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: नवाज़ना (navāznā)
    Urdu: نوازنا (navāznā)
  • Marathi: नावाजणे (nāvāj̈ṇe)
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਨਿਵਾਜਣਾ (nivājṇā)
    Shahmukhi script: نِواجنا (nivājnā)

References

  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
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