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[2] [3] The most recent main collection of Dari proverbs is the 3rd edition of U.S. Navy Captain Edward Zellem's collection, built on the 151 of the 2012 edition, plus 50 more that were submitted via the Web. [4] [5] The 2012 edition won a 2013 award from the Military Writers Society of America. [6]
The majority of scholars believe that Dari refers to the Persian word dar or darbār , meaning "court", as it was the formal language of the Sassanids. [6] The original meaning of the word dari is given in a notice attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (cited by Ibn al-Nadim in Al-Fehrest). [26]
The great poet Rumi was an Afghan poet who wrote in Dari language throughout his life. Other poets also wrote in Dari, however several other poets were deeply influenced by Persian, Pashto and Arabic Languages. [8] [9] Modern women usually write the traditional Afghan poetry form, consisting of two lines of rhyme, called landay. [10]
Dari is the most widely spoken language of Afghanistan's official languages and acts as a lingua franca for the country. In 1980, other regional languages were granted official status in the regions where they are the language of the majority. [ 22 ]
This word cannot be descended directly from Indo-European, as Indo-European words in p-become -f in Germanic. The most widely accepted theory sees this word as a borrowing from Iranian, in which Indo-European p-is preserved, and there is alternation between forms with -t-and forms with -θ-; compare Avestan pantā (nominative), paθō (genitive ...
Dari, also known as Dari Persian, is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. The Hazaras are one of the most persecuted groups in Afghanistan. [ 25 ] More than half of the Hazara population was massacred by the Emirate of Afghanistan between 1888 and 1893 , [ 26 ] and they have faced persecution at various times over the past decades ...
Even in its vernacular form, Hindustani contains the most Persian influence of all the Indo-Aryan languages, [57] and many Persian words are used commonly in speech by those identifying as "Hindi" and "Urdu" speakers alike. These words have been assimilated into the language to the extent they are not recognised as "foreign" influences.
"New Persian" is the name given to the final stage of development of Persian language. The term Persian is an English derivation of Latin Persiānus, the adjectival form of Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσίς), [12] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Pārsa (𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), [13] which means "Persia" (a region in southwestern Iran corresponding to modern-day Fars province).