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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
The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary is a 2001 book by Garland Cannon and Alan S. Kaye. It is a historical dictionary of Persian loanwords in English which includes 811 Persian words appeared in English texts since 1225 CE.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Persian as a language name is first attested in English in the mid-16th century. [37] Farsi, which is the Persian word for the Persian language, has also been used widely in English in recent decades, more often to refer to Iran's standard Persian. However, the name Persian is still more ...
Iranian Persian (Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized: Fârsi-ye Irâni), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian (Persian: فارسی, romanized: Fârsi), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian communities throughout the world.
Pages in category "Persian–English translators" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Two tourists have died from suspected pesticide poisoning after their hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated for bedbugs, Britain’s PA Media news agency has reported.. Ebony McIntosh, a 24-year-old ...
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
GMR agreed to pay a reported fee of nearly 50 million pounds ($62 million), taking the amount paid for stakes in the eight franchises — ranging to 49% to 100% — to over 500 million ($620 million).