خفتن

Verb

خِفْتُنَّ • (ḵiftunna) (form I)

1. second-person feminine plural past active of خَافَ‎ (ḵāfa)
2. second-person feminine plural past passive of خَافَ‎ (ḵāfa)

Etymology

From Parthian, from Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *su̯ep-, sup- (“to sleep”). Compare Manichaean Parthian xwsp-‎ (xusp-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xofˈt̪ʰæn]

Verb

خفتن • (xoftan) (present stem خسپ‎ (xosp))

1. (archaic) to sleep

References

• “خفتن” in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, Dehkhoda Dictionary, Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 1931–.
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xuftan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “xwsp-”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols