Farsi
Pronunciation
  • enPR: fä(r)'si, IPA: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/
Noun

Farsi (uncountable)

  1. (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' […]
  2. An argot of hijras, or catamites, in North India and Pakistan.
Synonyms Adjective

Farsi

  1. (proscribed) Persian



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