Body
نشستن
/ neshastan /
verb · to sit
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Meaning
معنی۱
When a guest steps into a Tehrani living room, the host gestures to the couch and says "befarmâyid beneshinid." In casual speech this softens to "beshin" (sit). At Friday family lunch, the patriarch claims the head spot at the sofreh and everyone else neshast around the spread on the floor.
In a sentence
مثالمینشینم
mineshinam
I am sitting
بنشینید
beneshinid
Please sit down
روی صندلی نشستم
ruye sandali neshastam
I sat on the chair
کجا بنشینیم؟
kojâ beneshinim?
Where should we sit?
In its constellation
در پیوندNo word stands alone. Follow a thread to the words it lives beside — hover to read one, click to open it.
نشستنneshastan
نشاندنneshândanشاه نشینshâhneshinدراز و نشستderâz-o-neshastصندلیsandaliشبنشینیshab-neshiniنوشیدنnushidanنشستنneshastan
keeps company with ۶ words