Persian
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Noun
The official language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Persian belongs to the South-Western branch of Iranian subfamily of Indo_Iranian family. Indo-Iranian itself is a subfamily of the Indo-European. Related languages are Kurdish, Pashto, and Avestan. Primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Persian in its modern form is already standardised in 10th century A.D. It is one of the earliest standard languages and has one of the most extensive and exalted literatures among the world languages.
Adjective
Describes a person, place or object referring to Persia or Persians.
See also
Translations
- Arabic: الفارسي (fārsī)
- Bulgarian: персиец m (1), персийка f (1)
- Danish: Persianer (2)
- Dutch: Pers m (1), Perzische f (1), Perzisch n (2), n (2)
- Chinese: 波斯人(1), 波斯语的 Po-se (2)
- Esperanto: Perso(2)
- Finnish: Persialainen (1), Persia (3)
- French: Persan m (1,2), m (2)
- German: Perser m (1), Perserin f (1)
- Hungarian: Perzsiai (2)
- Indonesian: Farsi (2)
- Italian: Persiano (2)
- Korean: 페르샤의 (2)
- Persian: فارسی (fārsi) (2)
- Polish: Perski (2)
- Portugese: Persa (2)
- Russian: Persidskiy (2)
- Slovak: Peržan m, Peržanka f (1); peržština f (2)
- Spanish: Persa (2)
- Swahili: Kiajemi (2)
- Swedish: Perser (m, pl) Persiska (f 1) (2)
- Turkish: Farsça (2)
- Urdu: فارسي (fārsī)
Adjective
Persian
- Of, from, or pertaining to Persia.
- Of or pertaining to the Persian people.
- Of or pertaining to the Persian language.
Synonyms
- Iranian (2)
Translations
- Bulgarian: персийски m & pl
- Chinese: 波斯的 (1), 波斯人的 (2), 波斯语的 (3)
- Dutch: Perzisch, Perzische
- Esperanto: persa
- Finnish: persialainen
- French: persan
- German: persisch
- Persian: ایرانی (Irani)
- Slovak: perzský m, perzská f, perzské n
- Swedish: persisk
- Turkish: İran
See also
- Wikipedia article on Persian
