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  2. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2]

  3. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    As of Unicode version 15.1, there are 149,878 characters with code points, covering 161 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.

  4. Cataphract - Wikipedia

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    Clibanarii is a Latin word for "mail-clad riders", itself a derivative of the Greek κλιβανοφόροι (klibanophoroi), meaning "camp oven bearers" from the Greek word κλίβανος, meaning "camp oven" or "metallic furnace"; the word has also been tentatively linked to the Persian word for a warrior, grivpan. However, it appears with ...

  5. Persian carpet - Wikipedia

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    A Persian carpet (Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]) [1], or Iranian carpet is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran ...

  6. Lapis lazuli - Wikipedia

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    Originating from the Persian word for the gem, lāžward, [1] lapis lazuli is a rock composed primarily of the minerals lazurite, pyrite and calcite. As early as the 7th millennium BC , lapis lazuli was mined in the Sar-i Sang mines, [ 2 ] in Shortugai , and in other mines in Badakhshan province in modern northeast Afghanistan . [ 3 ]

  7. Pahlavi scripts - Wikipedia

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    Such a logogram could also be followed by letters expressing parts of the Persian word phonetically, e.g. ʼB-tr for pidar "father". The grammatical endings were usually written phonetically. A logogram did not necessarily originate from the lexical form of the word in Aramaic, it could also come from a declined or conjugated Aramaic

  8. Tulip - Wikipedia

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    The word for tulip in Persian is "laleh" (لاله), and this has become popular as a girl's name. [63] The name has been used for commercial enterprises, such as the Laleh International Hotel, as well as public facilities, such as Laleh Park [ 61 ] and Laleh Hospital, [ 64 ] and the tulip motif remains common in Iranian culture.

  9. Cunt - Wikipedia

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    Cunt (/ k ʌ n t / ⓘ) is a vulgar word for the vulva.It is used in a variety of ways, including as a term of disparagement. "Cunt" is often used as a disparaging and obscene term for a woman in the United States, an unpleasant or objectionable person (regardless of gender) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or a contemptible man in Australia and New Zealand.