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The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of August 2024, it has 1,010,518 articles, 1,332,530 registered users, and 91,962 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012.
The 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the German armed forces during World War II. Formed on 18 July 1944 from a battalion, it was understrength and was soon reduced to a brigade.
Children of Heaven (Persian: بچههای آسمان, romanized: Bæccähâ-ye âsmân) is a 1997 Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi.The plot follows a brother and sister, and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes.
Persian vocabulary. 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 has also had considerable contact with other ...
According to Ferdowsi, Zahhāk was born as the son of a ruler named Merdās ( Persian: مرداس ). Because of his Arab lineage, he is sometimes called Zahhāk-e Tāzī ( Persian: ضحاکِ تازی ), meaning "Zahhāk the Tayyi ". He is handsome and clever, but has no stability of character and is easily influenced by his counselors.
The simurgh ( / sɪˈmɜːrɡ /; Persian: سیمرغ, also spelled senmurv, simorgh, simorg, simurg, simoorg, simorq or simourv) is a benevolent bird in Persian mythology and literature. It bears some similarities with mythological birds from different origins, such as the phoenix (Persian: ققنوس quqnūs) and the humā (Persian: هما ). [ 2]
In Dari and Tajik /a/ is the most common vowel and at the end of the word may be pronounced as /æ/. [a] Unlike Iranian Persian, Dari has 5 long vowels /ɑː/, /eː/, /iː/, /oː/, and /uː/. The Dari vowel /ɑː/ and the Iranian vowel /ɒː/ are, respectively, the unrounded and rounded versions of the same vowel. ('roundness' referring to the ...
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 ...