داشتن

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to have; to possess, to own
 * 2) to hold
 * 3)  to be (doing something)
 * 1)  to be (doing something)

Usage notes

 * Unlike most other verbs, the simple present imperfective form of does not use the durative prefix.
 * as the progressive auxiliary is normal in both speech and many text genres, but is still avoided in more conservative literary registers as a colloquialism. Its usage in this sense was first recorded in colloquial usage in the 1870s, having been entirely absent from Classical Persian. Geographically, its utilisation is limited to Iran, and it is substituted for conjunct verb constructions from and  in Transoxiana and Afghanistan, respectively.  For example, the present continuous sentence "He is reading the book" would be translated as follows (with Classical Persian transliterations):
 * Iranian:
 * Dari:
 * Tajik:
 * Meanwhile, the past continuous sentence "He was reading the book" would be translated as follows:
 * Iranian:
 * Dari:
 * Tajik:


 * In medieval texts, the nuance of is often closer to English "to hold; to keep", and possession is usually marked by  +.