Arabic

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)

Persian

Alternative forms

• خسپیدن ‎(xospidan)
• خفسیدن ‎(xofsidan)

Etymology

From Middle Persian hwptn, hwps- ‎(xuftan, xufs-, “to sleep”) (compare Parthian xwsp- ‎(xusp-)), from Proto-Indo-European *su̯ep-, sup- ‎(“to sleep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xofˈt̪ʰæn]

Verb

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

1. (archaic) to sleep

References

• "خفتن" in Dehkhoda Dictionary.
• 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