پژوهیدن
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Inherited from Middle Persian wcwstn (/wizōstan, wizōhīdan/, “to investigate, to examine”)[1]. The initial 'w' phoneme most likely first turned into 'b', which is a very common sound change from Middle Persian to New Persian (change of initial w- to either b- or gw- → g-). Afterwards, the 'b' turned into a 'p' phoneme, possibly due to the ambiguities of the Perso-Arabic script at the time, which represented both 'p' and 'b' phonemes with one letter, i.e. ب. This sound change is also seen in other New Persian words such as پوزش (pôzeš, “apology”) and پزشک (pizišk, “doctor”).
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /pi.ʒoː.hiː.ˈdan/, /pi.ʒuː.hiː.ˈdan/
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [pʰe.ʒuː.ɦiː.d̪ǽn], [pʰæ.ʒuː.ɦiː.d̪ǽn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [pʰä.ʒu.ɦi.d̪án]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | pižōhīdán, pižūhīdán |
| Dari reading? | pižōhīdan |
| Iranian reading? | pežuhidan, pažuhidan |
| Tajik reading? | pažuhidan |
پژوهیدن • (pežuhidan) (present stem پژوه (pežuh))
- to examine, to investigate, to research
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wizōstan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 93