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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. 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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    Pages in category "Persian words and phrases" The following 198 pages are in this category, out of 198 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. --an

  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. Persian nouns - Wikipedia

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    These nouns pluralize in Persian like their counterparts in Arabic. In colloquial Persian, the plural suffix -hā (pronounced -ā after consonants) can be used with virtually all nouns, even if they take an ān -plural or an Arabic plural in the written standard language. For example, one can say mard-hā (or mard-ā) instead of standard ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Talk:List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    E.g., it's true that modern Persian Ariya derives from Avestan, which is a contemporary of Sanskrit, but the English word Arya derives from Sanskrit word Arya. deeptrivia ( talk) 06:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC) [ reply] My references also derive the English word from Sanskrit. Alexander 007 06:43, 14 January 2006 (UTC) [ reply] What about words ...