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Thus many words in the list below, though originally from Persian, arrived in English through the intermediary of Ottoman Turkish language. Many Persian words also came into English through Urdu during British colonialism. Persian was the language of the Mughal court before British rule in India even though locals in North India spoke Hindustani.
Manti is a type of dumpling mainly found in Turkish cuisine, Armenian cuisine and Central Asian cuisine but also in West Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans.Manti is also popular among Chinese Muslims, [1] and it is consumed throughout post-Soviet countries, where the dish spread from the Central Asian republics. [2]
Portrait of Abdul Karim (the Munshi) by Rudolf Swoboda.. Munshi is a Persian word, originally used for a contractor, writer, or secretary, and later used in Mughal India for native language teachers, teachers of various subjects, especially administrative principles, religious texts, science, and philosophy and were also secretaries and translators employed by Europeans.
Dehkhoda states in the preface of the first edition of the dictionary that "Not only does this book miss 2/3 of today’s entire Persian vocabulary, at least half of the words I knew were forgotten and not recorded in this book." Many of those words were added in newer editions published after his death.
Farsi (Persian: فارسی) is the indigenous name or endonym for Persian. It primarily refers to the Persian language. Farsi may also refer to: Persian people; Farsi, Afghanistan; Farsi District in Herat province, Afghanistan; Farsi Island, an Iranian island off the coast of Fars, Iran; Farsi village, located in Hormozgan province, Iran
Muntakhab-al Lubab (Arabic for "selected [records] of the wise and pure" [1]) is a Persian language book about the history of India.Completed around 1732, it was written by Khafi Khan in the Mughal Empire of present-day India.
Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family, and many words in modern Persian usage ultimately originate from Proto-Indo-European. The language makes extensive use of word building techniques such as affixation and compounding to derive new words from roots.
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 ...