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With the exception of certain official designations within the government, trade and military, many of the Turkic borrowings in Persian have a more informal, homely flavour, [17] and therefore, to many Persian native speakers these words do not feel like foreign: e.g. āqā 'mister', dowqolu 'twin', komak 'help', tumān 'official currency of ...
During the Muslim Mughal Empire when the Europeans arrived in South Asia, the Persian word Farang was used to refer to foreigners of European descent. The words also added to local languages such as Hindi/Urdu as firangi (Devanāgarī: फिरंगी and Urdu فرنگی) and Bengali as firingi (ফিরিঙ্গি). The word was ...
Persian words similar to other languages (4 P) Pages in category "Persian words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 201 total.
After becoming familiar with the Farhang-i Jahangiri by 1618, Soruri created a second edition of his Farhang-e Soruri, significantly increasing its list of words and including a second opening. With more than 6,000 words, the Farhang-e Soruri is primarily composed of old Persian words that were scarcely used in the 17th-century but were used by ...
The Middle English word limon goes back to Old French limon, showing that yet another delicacy passed into England through France. The Old French word probably came from Italian limone, another step on the route that leads back to the Arabic word ليمون، ليمون laymūn or līmūn, which comes from the Persian word لیمو līmū. Lilac
a contraction of the French word cosmétique, used to refer to lipstick in Persian. côtelette کتلت kotlet cutlet coupé کوپه kupe coupé coup d'état کودتا kudeta coup, putsch, golpe coupon کوپن kupon coupon courant d'air کوران kurân air draft course کورس kurs race cravate کراوات kerâvât tie crème کرم krem
Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...
(Thai; ฝรั่ง) A generic term for foreigner used to refer to those of European ancestry and can be used to refer to plants or animals that are foreign in origin as an adjective. [7] The word Farang derives - via tenth century Arabic and then Persian - from Frank, referring to the Germanic people that gave their name to modern France ...