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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.
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.
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Persian (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən,-ʃ ən / PUR-zhən, -shən), also known by its endonym Farsi or Parsi (فارسی [fɒːɾˈsiː] ⓘ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually ...
Persian Wikipedia (Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized: Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of July 2024, it has 1,006,488 articles, 1,322,421 registered users, and 91,168 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by ...
Persian, also called Farsi, is a Western Iranian language.It is the official language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.It is also spoken by many people in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other neighbouring countries and by immigrants from Central Asia in Russia.Persian was also taught as a second language in schools in Pakistan until 2006. In the past, many of those places were parts ...
12 sty 2024 · Online version of Sulayman Hayyim's 'New Persian-English dictionary, complete and modern, designed to give the English meanings of over 50,000 words, terms, idioms, and proverbs in the Persian language, as well as the transliteration of the words in English characters.
