Farsi
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
Farsi (uncountable)
- (proscribed) The Persian language.
- 1820, William Erskine, "On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis", Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, volume II, page 315
- That the Farsi or Persian is not a language derived from the Pehlevi, but a collateral and independent tongue, seems to be sufficiently certain.
- 2009, Vit Bubenik, "The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian", page 97 in Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305
- For instance, in Farsi pošt means 'back' (noun) as in pošt=am dard mikonad 'my back hurts' […]
- 1820, William Erskine, "On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis", Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, volume II, page 315
- An argot of hijras, or catamites, in North India and Pakistan.
- (language) Persian
Farsi
- (proscribed) Persian
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