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From today's featured article. The black-throated loon ( Gavia arctica) is a migratory aquatic bird that primarily breeds in freshwater lakes in northern Europe and Asia. It winters along sheltered, ice-free coasts of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. First formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, it is about 70 centimetres (28 in ...
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.
Gabr ( Persian: گبر; also geuber, geubre, gabrak, gawr, gaur, gyaur, gabre) is a New Persian term originally used to denote a Zoroastrian . Historically, gabr was a technical term synonymous with mōg, "magus", denoting a follower of Zoroastrianism, and it is with this meaning that the term is attested in very early New Persian texts such as ...
Khowar is a minor language of Pakistan which is mainly spoken in Chitral, it is given a space in this map. Areas where Khowar is spoken. Khowar ( Khowar: کھووار زبان, romanized: khowār, IPA: [kʰɔːwaːr] ), or Chitrali, is a Dardic language of the Indo-Aryan language family primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan.
Rumi's works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] His poems have subsequently been translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats.
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 ...
Another brief Persian account is recorded by Masudi in The Meadows of Gold (completed 947 CE). [31] He refers to a Jewish woman who had married the Persian King Bahman (Artaxerxes II), and delivered her people, [30] [32] [33] thus corroborating this identification of Ahasuerus. He also mentions the woman's daughter, Khumay, who is not known in ...
The majority of scholars believe that Dari refers to the Persian word dar or darbār , meaning "court", as it was the formal language of the Sassanids. [6] The original meaning of the word dari is given in a notice attributed to Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (cited by Ibn al-Nadim in Al-Fehrest). [26]