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decrease
  ۱) کاستن، کاهیدن؛ ۲) کاهش   
1) kâstan (#), kâhidan (#); 2) kâheš (#)

Fr.: 1) décroitre; 2) décroissance   

1) (v.tr.) To cause to diminish, to make less. (v.intr.) To diminish or lessen in extent, quantity, power, etc.
2) The act or process of decreasing; condition of being decreased. → Forbush decrease.

Decrease, from M.E. decres (n.), decresen, from O.Fr. descreistre, from L. decrescere, from → de- + crescere "to grow," → crescent.

Kâstan, kâh-, from Mid.Pers. kâhitan, kâstan, kâhênitan "to decrease, diminish, lessen," Av. kasu- "small, little" (Mod.Pers. keh), Proto-Iranian *kas- "to be small, diminish, lessen;" kâheš verbal noun from kâhidan.

Forbush decrease
  کاهش ِ فورباش   
kâheš-e Forbush

Fr.: effet Forbush   

A decrease in the Galactic cosmic flux around sunspot maximum as a consequence of Solar flare activity. When sunspots explode, they often hurl massive clouds of hot gas away from the Sun, a phenomenon called → coronal mass ejections (CME). The CMEs contain not only gas but also magnetic fields. So when a CME sweeps past Earth, it also sweeps away many of the electrically-charged cosmic rays.

After Scott E. Forbush, American physicist who studied cosmic rays in the 1930s and 40s; → effect; decrease, from O.Fr. stem of descreistre, from L. decrescere, from → de- "away from" + crescere "to grow."

Kâheš, verbal noun of kâstan, kâhidan "to decrease," from Mid.Pers. kâhitan, kâstan, kâhênitan "to decrease, diminish, lessen;" Av. kasu- "small, little" (Mod.Pers. keh), Proto-Iranian *kas- "to be small, diminish, lessen."