برخاستن

What it means

برخاستن (barkhâstan) means “to rise, to stand up, to get up.” Pure Persian verb of motion, A2 vocabulary. Mostly literary and formal. In everyday speech Iranians use بلند شدن (boland shodan) or پا شدن (pâ shodan).

How to use it

• صبح زود برخاستم (sobh zud barkhâstam) “I rose early in the morning”
• از خواب برخاست (az khâb barkhâst) “He rose from sleep”
• برای احترام برخاستند (barâ-ye ehterâm barkhâstand) “They stood up out of respect”

Common pairings

• بلند شدن (boland shodan) “to get up” (everyday colloquial)
• پا شدن (pâ shodan) “to stand up” (most casual)
• برخاستگی (barkhâstegi) “elevation, prominence”
• قیام کردن (qiyâm kardan) “to rise up, revolt”

Conjugation

Present stem: برخیز (barkhiz). Past stem: برخاست (barkhâst). Sample forms, present 1sg: برمی‌خیزم (bar-mikhizam, “I rise”); simple past 1sg: برخاستم (barkhâstam, “I rose”); imperative: برخیز (barkhiz, “rise!”). The verb prefix بر (bar, “up, upon”) plus the verb خاستن (khâstan, “to rise”) creates the directional sense. The famous Persian poetic line برخیزید! (barkhizid!, “rise!”) echoes this verb in revolutionary anthems.

References

• Dehkhoda
• Vajehyab