بوسیدن

From imitative Proto-Indo-European *bu, compare Latin basium (“kiss”), Welsh bus (“kiss, lip”), and English buss (“kiss”).

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بوسیدن • (busidan) (present stem بوس (bus))

(transitive)

1. to kiss

   Synonyms: بوس کردن (bus kardan), ماچ کردن (mâč kardan)

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 123:

     درین جهان نرسیدم بوصل و خاک شدم
     مگر که پای تو بوسم دران جهان ای دوست
     دگر برسم گدایی بیایم و بوسم
     هزار بار بران خاک آسمان ای دوست

     dar īn jahān narasīdam ba-wasl u xāk šudam
     magar ki pā-yi tō bōsam dar ān jahān ay dōst
     digar ba-rasm-i gadāyī biyāyam u bōsam
     hazār bār bar ān xāk-i āsmān ay dōst

     I did not reach union [with the beloved] in this world and became dirt;
     [Having been buried and become earth,] perhaps I shall kiss your feet in that world, o friend!
     What is more, I come to the station of beggars and make kisses
     A thousand times upon that heavenly dirt [before your door], o friend!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. to osculate

• Pokorny *bu