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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_English_words_ofList of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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   5 days ago · Assassin. The original word in Persian: اساسیان Asaasiaan which is in two parts. 'Asaas' [Arabic for Foundation/God] and 'iaan' [Persian adj. 'committed/plural'] is the common name used to refer to Nizari Ismailis under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah who conducted a series of political assassinations.

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   4 days ago · Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐 ‎, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.

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   4 days ago · Iranian Persian ( Persian: فارسی ایرانی, romanized : Pârsi-ye Irâni ), [2] [3] Western Persian [4] or Western Farsi, [5] natively simply known as Persian ( Persian: فارسی, romanized : Pârsi ), refers to the varieties of the Persian language spoken in Iran and by others in neighboring countries, as well as by Iranian ...

4. www.britannica.com › topic › Persian-languagePersian language | History, Countries, & Facts | Britannica

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   Jun 29, 2024 · It is the official language of Iran, and two varieties of Persian known as Dari and Tajik are official languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively. Modern Persian is most closely related to Middle and Old Persian, former languages of the region of Fārs (Persia) in southwestern Iran. It is thus called Fārsī by native speakers.

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5. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionaryCambridge Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus

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   Jul 17, 2024 · Cambridge Dictionary - English dictionary, English-Spanish translation and British & American English audio pronunciation from Cambridge University Press

6. www.innovativelanguage.com › word-of-the-day › persianPersian Word of the Day - Free Persian Vocabulary and Phrases

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   5 days ago · One word a day is one day closer to fluency. Receive Word of the Day mini-lessons in your inbox for a convenient new way to learn a language! Available in 43 languages! 1.Choose Language. Persian.

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   How did Persian words get into English?

   • Many words of Persian origin have made their way into the English language through different, often circuitous, routes. Some of them, such as "paradise", date to cultural contacts between the Persian people and the ancient Greeks or Romans and through Greek and Latin found their way to English.

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   Where is Persian spoken today?

   • Over the centuries Parsi has changed to its modern form and today Persian is spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan. It was the language of the court of many of the Indian kings till the British banned its use, after occupying India in the 18 century. The Mogul kings of India had made Persian their court language.

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   What is a Middle Persian inflection system?

   • Early Middle Persian inflection as found in the Sassanid rock inscriptions (3rd–4th centuries CE) still retained a minimal case system for the nominal parts of speech, i.e. nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals.

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   Did mogul Kings make Persian a language?

   • The Mogul kings of India had made Persian their court language. Engraved and filled with gold on walls of Delhi's Red Fort is the sentence "Agar Ferdows dar jahan ast hamin ast o hamin ast o hamin ast"; - 'If there is a paradise on earth it is here it is here it is here.'

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   Jul 17, 2024 · Modern Persian language or Farsi (Arabic pronunciation of Parsi) as spoken today consists of a lot of words of non-Iranian origin. Some modern technical terms, understandably, have been incorporated from English, French and German and are recognizable, but Arabic has corrupted a major part of the language by replacing original Parsi words.