Meaning of خواستن | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to want, to intend (both of nouns and verbs)
2. to ask; to request
3. will; in the literary language, appears in the aorist to form the future tense, preceding the bare past stem of the main verb
   auxiliary, literary
4. to be owed

Equivalents

Examples

“میخواهم بروم.”

I want to go.

“میخوام برم.”

I want to go.

“1021-1077, Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Tarikh-i Bayhaqi چون حسنک بیامد، خواجه بر پای خاست. چون او این مَکرُمت بکرد، همه – اگر خواستند یا نه – بر پای خاستند. بو سهل زوزنی بر خشم خود طاقت نداشت؛ برخاست، نه تمام و بر خویشتن می ژکید. احمد او را گفت: در همه کارها ناتمامی. وی نیک از جای بشد. Čūn Hasanak biyāmad, Xwāja bar pāy xāst. Čūn ō īn makrumat bikard, hama – agar xwāstand yā na – bar pāy xāstand. Bū Sahl Zawzanī bar xašm-i xwad tāqat nadāšt; bar-xāst, na tamām, wa bar xwēštan mē-žakīd. Ahmad ō rā guft: "dar hama-i kār-hā nā-tamāmī". Way nēk az jāy bišud. When Hasanak [the Vizier] arrived, Khwaja [Ahmad Maymandi] rose to his feet. Since he displayed this act of respect, everyone – whether they wanted or not – rose to their feet.. Bu Sahl Zawzani couldn't contain his irritation; he rose, [but] not completely, while muttering under his breath. Ahmad said to him: "In all [your] undertakings, you lack thoroughness." He [Bu Sahl] became extremely angered.”

“ملت ایران این را میخواهد، این را میگوید.”

The Iranian nation wants this, [and] it is saying this.

“از من خواست که درس بخوانم.”

He asked me to study.

“خواهم رفت.”

I will go.

“آن را بر نخواهم داشت.”

I will not pick it up.

“من از علی ۴٫۰۰۰ تومان میخواستم.”

Ali owed me 4,000 tomans.

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