Questions tagged [persian]
Persian is an Indo-European, Western-Iranian language spoken mostly in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. "Persian" is used synonymously to "Farsi".
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Darius in Zendish Begins with an N?
In Rudiments of an Egyptian dictionary... by Thomas Young, I came across the text "The name DARIUS is said to begin with N in the Zendish" https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug....
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Etymology of Persian زنبور (bee)
In The etymological dictionary of Persian by Mohammad Hassandust, the word زنبور is said to be Iranian in origin and Hassandust references Morgenstierne and also says the Arabic word with the same ...
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How likely is it that Old Medean /ṛ/ and /b/ would have been rendered in Biblical Hebrew as /ħ/ and /w/?
I've recently been doing some research involving a possible connection between the names Astibaras (a named Diodorus Siculus used to refer to Cyaxares the Mede) and Ahasuerus (the name of both the ...
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The etymological dictionary of Persian by Mohammad Hassandust
I'm considering purchasing this book, but it's not available in ebook format, and the price is rather steep. Therefore, I'm eager to ensure its scientific accuracy. I've noticed numerous papers citing ...
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How did خشاب become the Persian word for magazine?
In Iran magazine (in a gun) is called خشاب (kheshab). I tried to find a relation to another language but I failed.
The only thing I found is that خشب (khashb) means wood in Arabic.
In Arabic magazine ...
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Is it reasonable to connect the Old Persian/Avestan word for "garden" with the Greek word?
The Old Persian/Avestan word for "garden/orchard" is bustan/bostan. On the surface, this word looks very similar to the Greek term botane, which means the same thing (and is clearly the ...
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Farsi: why letter Alef often sounds like long "o"?
Gday, everyone. I'm a beginner in the Persian language.
Why letter Alef often sounds like long "o"? For example, in the word "air" - هوا - havaa.
If I listen to examples, say, on ...
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Is there an android app that adds short vowels to Persian texts?
I found an app for Arabic.
But is there an app or maybe a website for Persian too?
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Distinction between Chemistry and Alchemy in Arabic and Farsi languages
According to Wikipedia, in Europe the semantic distinction between the rational science of chimia and the occult alchimia arose in the early 18th century. So it seems like there was a need to separate ...
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Is the Turkish word for brother(kardeş) of Indo-Iranian origin?
I looked up the word for "brother" in other Turkish languages. In Ubzek it is aka. And in Volga Tatar the corresponding word is abi. The word "kardesh" sounds suspiciously similar ...
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A possible diacritic for a silent و in Persian? [closed]
In modern Persian the و of "خوا" in many words is silent.
خواب xāb
‘sleep, asleep; dream; the nap (of a cloth)’
خوابیدن xābidan
infinitive: ‘to sleep, lie down’
Examples from the link ...
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How to interpret the only available Middle Persian dictionary?
I am looking at this:
I think this is a verb (some others are even less clear). What does besaz(en)- mean? The parentheses and the hyphen. The M is for Middle Persian, but there is no indication that ...
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How different is Old Persian / Avestan / Farsi from each other?
I am looking at dictionaries of the avesta and old persian of which there isn't much, and would like to collect words in the old persian cuneiform and avestan script. First part of the question is, ...
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Did modern Farsi lose its casual word for yes?
Hobby linguistic learner here.
Farsi naturally shares a lot of simple words with other Indo-European languages:
German for [daughter]: "Tochter" / "doxtar" (دختر)
English for [bad]: "bad"/"bad" (بد)
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Did Persian ever have a hard or soft "th" sound?
Farsi does not distinguish between ث (soft 'th' in Arabic, like "think") and ذ (hard 'th' in Arabic, like "that"). A native Farsi speaker pronounces ث like the 's' in "sing" and ذ like the 'z' in "zoo"...
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How is it possible to use a single Latin alphabet for Persian which will represent ALL three standards?
How can there be a SINGLE standard Latin script (mainly for International purposes) which properly represent standard Iranian Persian, Afghan Persian and Tajik Persian.
Especially the different ...
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meaning of yek in Persian or Farsi [closed]
I know that in Persian "Man yek sag daraam" means "I have a dog", where:
Man = I, sag = dog, daraam = have. What is the purpose of yek? Is it a/an, the indefinite article?
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Etymology of Ancient Greek interrogative particle ἆρα
The Ancient Greek interrogative ἆρα is strikingly similar to modern Persian āyā.
Both words exclusively signal yes/no questions, and almost always begin the sentence. There is an accent on the first ...
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Do Urdu Numerals belong to the Persian Script?
Do Urdu Numerals belong to the Persian Script and does Urdu use the same Unicode characters as Persian Language apart from Western Arabic numerals?
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Program or website for transcribing Old and Middle Persian
Is there any program or website that is able to transcribe Old and Middle Persian text (or transliteration of them) to an orthographic or phonetic transcription?
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Order of components within measurement units in RTL languages
This question is about measurement units in languages written in right-to-left (RTL) scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Malay, Farsi, etc. and their country-specific variants (for example, Arabic ...
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Is this letter ق pronounced almost same in Arabic and Persian?
In Persian langauge there are two letters which have same pronounciation when spelled with vowels, they are غ andق, in Arabic there is aslo a 'ق', i want to know do the two 'ق' have the same or ...
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Relation of Persian "Ke" and English "That" [closed]
First I should say I am not a linguist, but try to understand it to help my English.
In my native language, Persian, we do much use "Ke" (که) which almost corresponds to "which, who, that" in ...
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What is the origin of the Persian word شكر meaning Sugar?
Google says the word Sugar originates from سكر in Arabic. Yet the classic dictionary القاموس المحيط says the word comes from شكر in Persian. Any help with the etymology of the Persian word شكر?
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Do Persian Jews voice Hebrew ק?
I recently saw the Hebrew name יעקב transliterated into (American) English by Persian Jews as Yaghob. I find this curious (because the ע isn't transliterated, but that's a question for another time, ...
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