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28 cze 2024 · Many words of Persian origin have made their way into the English language through different, often circuitous, routes. Some of them, such as "paradise", date to cultural contacts between the Persian people and the ancient Greeks or Romans and through Greek and Latin found their way to English.
14 godz. temu · Zoroastrianism (Persian: دین زرتشتی, romanized: Din-ē Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.One of the world's oldest organized faiths, it is based on the teachings of the Iranian prophet Zarathustra—commonly known by his Greek name Zoroaster—as set forth in the Avesta. Zoroastrians exalt an uncreated and benevolent deity of wisdom, commonly ...
4 dni temu · Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.
1 dzień temu · Rumi was born to Persian parents, [35] [12] [13] [36] in Balkh, [37] modern-day Afghanistan or Wakhsh, [4] a village on the East bank of the Wakhsh River known as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. [4] The area, culturally adjacent to Balkh, is where Mawlânâ's father, Bahâ' uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. [4]
4 dni temu · Post-7th century borrowings came primarily from Persian and Hindi-Urdu, with Arabic words being borrowed through Persian, but sometimes directly. Modern speech borrows words from English, French, and German. However, a remarkably large number of words are unique to Pashto.
4 dni temu · Manichaeism is often presented as a Persian religion, mostly due to the vast number of Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian (as well as Turkish) texts discovered by German researchers near Turpan in what is now Xinjiang, China, during the early 1900s.
1 dzień temu · e. One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) [1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition ( c. 1706–1721 ), which ...
