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a couple words are common between farsi and urdu
like bacha, zindagi, mumkin, numbers ek, do,azad,giraftar...........many more words
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Another interesting point about farsi is that the adjective comes before noun or pronoun, so if you say "my dear" in persian it's "Jaan(dear)-e-man(my)"
Similarly read this phrase from right to left and you'll be able to construct it in farsi.
**Cold dark night
shab-e-tareek o sard** .
hey spanish is similar in this matter
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u shud have left the video globalgal!
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Arabs pronounce Parsi as Farsi.....Its Parsi not Farsi.
In Arabic there is no letter "P" or "Pe"
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ZabuN-e- YaaR-e-Maan farsi - wa maaN Farsi naami daaNaam :)
Persian, my friend's language. What does the other verse mean?
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I remember this from an Indian movie :D - don't know if I've correctly transliterated it:
sadar har ja ke nasheen ast sadaar ast
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Agar behisht shireen ast, behisht afreen shreentar ast.
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Akhbaar (Newpaper), Bahar (spring), Gul, Gulistan.
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Persian, my friend's language. What does the other verse mean?
Zabon-e-yaar-e-man Farsi - wa man Farsi naami donam = My lover's language is Farsi - and Farsi I do not know!
It's quoting Amir Khusrow I believe. He says:
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Zabon-e-yaar-e-man Turki, wa man Turki nemi donam,
Che khosh boodi agar boodi zabonash dar dahanay mun.*
My beloved speaks Turkish, and Turkish I do not know;
How I wish if her tongue would have been in my mouth.
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Akhbaar (Newpaper), Bahar (spring), Gul, Gulistan.
Gul = Flower
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Zabon-e-yaar-e-man Farsi - wa man Farsi naami donam = My lover's language is Farsi - and Farsi I do not know!
It's quoting Amir Khusrow I believe. He says: * Zabon-e-yaar-e-man Turki, wa man Turki nemi donam, Che khosh boodi agar boodi zabonash dar dahanay mun.*
My beloved speaks Turkish, and Turkish I do not know; How I wish if her tongue would have been in my mouth.
Ah...thanks. Classic farsi is quite different to modern farsi i guess.
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hey spanish is similar in this matter
you studied Spanish in A-levels?
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Ah...thanks. Classic farsi is quite different to modern farsi i guess.
I apologise for nitpikcking, but this isn't classical Farsi. Even though Khusrow was around hundreds of years ago, Farsi is such an old tongue that even hundreds of years ago doesn't fall into it's 'middle' or 'old' period. At least I think that's the case.
I have a rudimentary knowledge of the tongue (good Urdu vocabulary so that aids me) and I could decipher it...
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I apologise for nitpikcking, but this isn't classical Farsi. Even though Khusrow was around hundreds of years ago, Farsi is such an old tongue that even hundreds of years ago doesn't fall into it's 'middle' or 'old' period. At least I think that's the case.
I have a rudimentary knowledge of the tongue (good Urdu vocabulary so that aids me) and I could decipher it...
I totally understood it because of Urdu too. There's obviously going to be massive similarities.
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I apologise for nitpikcking, but this isn't classical Farsi. Even though Khusrow was around hundreds of years ago, Farsi is such an old tongue that even hundreds of years ago doesn't fall into it's 'middle' or 'old' period. At least I think that's the case.
I have a rudimentary knowledge of the tongue (good Urdu vocabulary so that aids me) and I could decipher it...
ah....thanks. So classic farsi is actually used by those of the poets lived around 3 to 4 thousand years ago, like Firdawsy and Jami?
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ah....thanks. So classic farsi is actually used by those of the poets lived around 3 to 4 thousand years ago, like Firdawsy and Jami?
No, these guys didn't write in Old Persian. Hafiz, Rumi, Ferdowsi, Sa'adi, Khusrow... all these wrote in Farsi which is perfectly understood today. Besides Ferdowsi was around about a thousand years ago, and Jami a few hundred.
'New Persian' has been around for more than a millenium.
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No, these guys didn't write in Old Persian. Hafiz, Rumi, Ferdowsi, Sa'adi, Khusrow... all these wrote in Farsi which is perfectly understood today. Besides Ferdowsi was around about a thousand years ago, and Jami a few hundred.
'New Persian' has been around for more than a millenium.
This is interesting. I wonder what is considered classic Persian then?
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^ Gulistan Bostan maybe
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^^ The elite of this school are Rumi, Sadi, and Hafez Shirazi ..