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Satrap
Jun 12, 2017 5:37:23 GMT
Post by cjm on Jun 12, 2017 5:37:23 GMT
A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg It’s the language of Rumi, Saadi, and Omar Khayyam. It looks and sounds very different, but it’s part of the same family as English: the Indo-European family that includes languages as diverse as French, Hindi, and Irish. I’m talking about Persian, the language spoken in Iran (where it’s known as Farsi/Parsi), Afghanistan (where it’s called Dari), Tajikistan (where it’s called Tajik), and elsewhere. English has borrowed words from every language it came in contact with and Persian is no exception. Some everyday words that owe their origins to Persian are check, magic, peach (literally, Persian apple), kiosk (literally, palace), pajamas (literally, leg garment), khaki (literally, dusty), van (short for caravan), azure, talc, and jasmine. From time to time we’ve featured words that were borrowed from Persian, but never dedicated a whole week to them. This week we’ll see five words that have come to us from (or via) Persian. satrap
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