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  2. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Etymology: modification of Persian بالم balam. a Persian-gulf boat holding about eight persons and propelled by paddles or poles. [ 22] Benami. Etymology:be (बे) means 'not'or 'without'.Hindi बेनाम benaam, from Persian بنام banaam in the name of + i. made, held, done, or transacted in the name of. [ 23] Bezoar.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Name of Iran - Wikipedia

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    Name of Iran. 1872 map of the Ottoman Middle East, with "Iran or Persia" shaded pink. In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name used for Iran. [ 1] On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah officially asked foreign delegates to use the Persian term Iran, the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence.

  7. Dari - Wikipedia

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    Dari is a name given to the New Persian language since the 10th century, widely used in Arabic (compare Al-Estakhri, Al-Muqaddasi and Ibn Hawqal) and Persian texts. [ 25] Since 1964, it has been the official name in Afghanistan for the Persian spoken there. In Afghanistan, Dari refers to a modern dialect form of Persian that is the standard ...

  8. Persian nouns - Wikipedia

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    The most common and productive form of pluralization for Persian nouns is with the suffix hā (ها). This is typically used for non-human nouns. Another productive plural suffix is ān (ان), used for human nouns (with alternative forms gān (گان) after the short vowel e and yān (یان) after other vowels). Many nouns borrowed from ...

  9. Category:Persian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    K. Kabab barg. Kalantar (title) Kanarang. Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan. Khāne-takānī. Khawaja. Khoresh. Khosrow (word)