خواردن

Compare Persian خوردن‎ (xordan, “to eat”). From Proto-Iranian *hwar- (“to eat, consume”). Cognates include Kurdish xwarin (“to eat”) and vexwarin (“to drink”), Pashto خوړل‎ (khwaṟël, “to eat”), Ossetian хӕрд (xærd, “food”) and Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (xᵛaraiti, “to consume, eat”). Compare also Old Armenian խորտիկ (xortik, “food”) and խորակ (xorak, “kind of pastry”), Iranian borrowings.

Original meaning of the root was "to take". During the Proto-Iranian period it replaced the native Indo-European root for "to eat" *h₁ed- (>Proto-Iranian *Had-; compare Latin edō, Ancient Greek ἔδω (édō), English eat), perhaps originally being used in a more informal way. The other root has been preserved in several nominal formations, such as Persian اسپست‎ (aspast, “alfalfa”) and Ossetian ад (ad, “taste”).

خواردن • (xvârdan) (present stem خوار‎ (xvâr))

1. (dialectal) to eat
2. (dialectal) to drink

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934–1936), “خواردن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Beroukhim
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 147

خواردن (xwardin)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to eat

• xwardin‎ (xwardin)