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Pages in category "Persian words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 201 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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.
A great number of words of French origin have entered the Persian language since the early modern period. The following is a partial list of these loanwords: The following is a partial list of these loanwords:
List of French loanwords in Persian; G. List of German words of French origin; List of Byzantine Greek words of Latin origin; H. Japanese loanwords in Hawaii; J.
A great number of words of Persian origin have entered the Turkish language. The following is a list of a number of these loanwords. [1] Persian Turkish
This category lists articles that list words in Persian that have origins in other languages [1] or words in other languages that have Persian origin [2 ^ "Category:Persian terms derived from other languages - Wiktionary" .
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 early Persian poets. [1] Twenty-eight chapters, an index, and two openings make up the dictionary. The dictionary is presented in an alphabetical order.