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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. Persian grammar - Wikipedia

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    However, Persian can have a relatively free word order, often called scrambling, because the parts of speech are generally unambiguous, and prepositions and the accusative marker help to disambiguate the case of a given noun phrase. The scrambling characteristic has allowed Persian a high degree of flexibility for versification and rhyming.

  4. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending someone. Hindustani slurs are extensively used in social medias in Hinglish and Urdish , although use of Devanagari and Nastaliq scripts for throwing slurs is on rise.

  5. List of French loanwords in Persian - Wikipedia

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    a contraction of the French word cosmétique, used to refer to lipstick in Persian. côtelette کتلت kotlet cutlet coupé کوپه kupe coupé coup d'état کودتا kudeta coup, putsch, golpe coupon کوپن kupon coupon courant d'air کوران kurân air draft course کورس kurs race cravate کراوات kerâvât tie crème کرم krem

  6. Persian language - Wikipedia

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    Persian is a member of the Western Iranian group of the Iranian languages, which make up a branch of the Indo-European languages in their Indo-Iranian subdivision.The Western Iranian languages themselves are divided into two subgroups: Southwestern Iranian languages, of which Persian is the most widely spoken, and Northwestern Iranian languages, of which Kurdish and Balochi are the most widely ...

  7. Category:Persian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  8. Persian vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    In Persian, the plural for the lexical word ketâb is obtained by simply adding the Persian plural morpheme hā: ketāb+hā → ketābhā (كتاب‌ها). Also, any new Persian words can only be pluralized by the addition of this plural morpheme since the Arabic root system is not a productive process in Persian.

  9. Pahlavi scripts - Wikipedia

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    For example, tō "you" (singular) was spelt LK (Aramaic "to you", including the preposition l-). A word could be written phonetically even when a logogram for it existed (pidar could be ʼB-tr or pytr ), but logograms were nevertheless used very frequently in texts. Many uzwārišn are listed in the lexicon Frahang ī Pahlavīg.