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This is a list of Spanish words of various origins. It includes words from Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian languages, Egyptian, Greek, Hungarian, Ligurian, Mongolian, Persian, Slavic (such as Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Croatian ). Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other ...
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 ...
Avicenna's most important Persian work is the Danishnama (دانشنامه علائی, "Book of Knowledge". Avicenna created a new scientific vocabulary that had not previously existed in Persian. The Danishnama covers such topics as logic, metaphysics, music theory and other sciences of his time.
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 ...
A shamshir ( Persian: شمشیر) is a type of Persian/Iranian sword with a radical curve. The name is derived from the Persian word shamshīr, which is made of two words sham (fang) and shir (lion)". The curved "scimitar" sword family includes the shamshir, kilij, talwar, pulwar, and nimcha . A shamshir shekargar ( Persian: شمشیر ...
Caravanserai ( Persian: کاروانسرای, romanized : kārvānsarāy ), is the Persian compound word variant combining kārvān "caravan" with -sarāy "palace", "building with enclosed courts". [ 6] Here "caravan" means a group of traders, pilgrims or other travellers, engaged in long-distance travel. The word is also rendered as ...
The short final "a" (ه-) is normally realized as [e] in Iran's Standard Persian, with the exception of the word na meaning "no". [15] This means that [a] and [e] in word-final positions are separate in Dari, but not in Iran's Standard Persian, where [e] is the word-final allophone of /æ/ in almost all cases.
The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of August 2024, it has 1,009,087 articles, 1,329,343 registered users, and 91,495 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.