گستردن

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Persian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Persian wstltn' (wistardan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *str̥náHti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-. Compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭- (star-, to spread)), Latin sternō (I bestrew, sprinkle), Sanskrit स्तृणाति (stṛṇā́ti), Ancient Greek στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi), Old Church Slavonic (о)строуити ((o)struiti), Old English strewian (whence English strew).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? gustardan
Dari reading? gustardan
Iranian reading? gostardan
Tajik reading? gustardan

Verb[edit]

Dari گستردن
Iranian Persian
Tajik густардан

گستردن (gostardan) (present stem گستر (gostar))

  1. (literary) to spread, to extend

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References[edit]

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گستردن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 92
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 205
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 449