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The name "Taj Mahal" is of Urdu origin, and believed to be derived from Arabic and Persian, with the words tāj mahall meaning "crown" (tāj) "palace" (mahall). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Abdul Hamid Lahori , in his book from 1636 Padshahnama , refers to the Taj Mahal as rauza -i munawwara ( Perso-Arabic : روضه منواره , rawdah-i munawwarah ...
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, [1] was a Persian lyric poet [2] [3] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of the highest pinnacles of Persian literature.
Soon, the Persian script in the cursive Nasta'liq form was adopted, with additional letters to accommodate the Indian phonetic system. A large number of Persian words were adopted in Hindustani, as were even grammatical elements such as the enclitic ezāfe. [10] [30]
Ashura is an Aramaic word meaning 'tenth'. [2] It may have also been derived from the Syriac words asiroya or asora. [3] It shares the same root as the Hebrew word 'āsōr. [4] In Arabic, Ashura refers to the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, a month in which fighting has been forbidden since before the advent of ...
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, [16] also known as the Persian Empire [16] or First Persian Empire [17] (/ ə ˈ k iː m ə n ɪ d /; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' [ 18 ] or 'The Kingdom' [ 19 ] ), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC .
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 ...
As with translations of the Bible, the English translators have sometimes favored archaic English words and constructions over their more modern or conventional equivalents; for example, two widely read translators, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Marmaduke Pickthall, use the plural and singular ye and thou instead of the more common you. [260]
Works by Saadi Shirazi at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) (in English) The Bustan of Saadi 1911 English edition by A. Hart Edwards; The Gulistan of Sa'di; The Bustan of Saadi, English translation, 74 p., Iran Chamber; Pictures of Sa'di's Tomb in Shiraz (in English and Arabic) "Verses in Persian and Chaghatay" featuring work by Sa'di, c. 1600