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Our Daily Bread Ministries. Our Daily Bread Ministries is a Christian organization founded by Martin De Haan in 1938. It is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has over 600 employees. The organization produces several devotional publications, which are read in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Australia, and Oceania.
Persian نوروز nauruz. literally, new day, from nau new + ruz. the Persian New Year's Day celebrated at the vernal equinox as a day of great festivity. [238] Nay Etymology: Arabic ناي nay, from Persian: نی. a vertical end-blown flute of ancient origin used in Muslim lands. [239] Neftgil
The word kebab likely came to English in the late 17th century from the Persian kabāb, partly through Hindustani, and Turkish. [8] [2] According to linguist Sevan Nişanyan, the Turkish word kebap is also derived from the Persian word kabāb, meaning roasted meat.
Khuda ( Persian: خُدا, romanized : xodâ, Persian pronunciation: [xoˈdɒː]) or Khoda is the Persian word for God. Originally, it was used as a noun in reference to Ahura Mazda (the name of the God in Zoroastrianism ). Iranian languages, Turkic languages, and many Indo-Aryan languages employ the word. [ 1] Today, it is a word that is ...
Paratha (pronounced [pəˈɾɑːtʰɑː], also parantha) is a flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent, [1] [4] with earliest reference mentioned in early medieval Sanskrit, India; [1] prevalent throughout the modern-day nations of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Afghanistan, Myanmar, [3] Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago ...
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.
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 ...
The Persian word-accent has been described as a stress accent by some, [21] and as a pitch accent by others. [22] In fact, the accented syllables in Persian are generally pronounced with a raised pitch as well as stress; but in certain contexts words may become deaccented and lose their high pitch. [23] [24]