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  2. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Balaghat. Etymology: probably from Hindi बालाघाट, from Persian بالا bālā 'above' + Hindi gaht 'pass.' tableland above mountain passes. [ 11] Baldachin. "Baldachin" (called Baldac in older times) was originally a luxurious type of cloth from Baghdad, from which name the word is derived, through Italian "Baldacco".

  3. Persian vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Category:Persian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Persian words similar to other languages‎ (4 P) Pages in category "Persian words and phrases" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total.

  5. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38] A dictionary of orthography. Contains 253,000 entries (253,000 words). [ 44][ 45] Nine volumes of this dictionary were printed in years 1935–1957.

  6. List of Hebrew words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Limon - לימון = Lemon, in Persian it's a general name for citrus. Lilach - לילך = Lilac: a lighter shade of purple, and also the Hebrew name of Syringa. Derives from " nilak " in Persian. Pardes - פרדס = Orchard. This word was also the core for "Paradise". Shoshana - שושנה = Rose. From the name of the once capital of the ...

  7. List of French loanwords in Persian - Wikipedia

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    List of French loanwords in Persian. 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: a contraction of the French word cosmétique, used to refer to lipstick in Persian. "open" (door, window, book, etc.), or "a big spender".

  8. Persian language - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Persian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Persian grammar. Persian grammar ( Persian: دستور زبان فارسی, Dastur-e Zabân-e Fârsi lit. Grammar of the Persian language) is the grammar of the Persian language, whose dialectal variants are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Uzbekistan (in Samarqand, Bukhara and the Surxondaryo Region) and Tajikistan. It is similar to that ...