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  2. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Balaghat. Etymology: probably from Hindi बालाघाट, from Persian بالا bālā 'above' + Hindi gaht 'pass.' tableland above mountain passes. [11] Baldachin. "Baldachin" (called Baldac in older times) was originally a luxurious type of cloth from Baghdad, from which name the word is derived, through Italian "Baldacco".

  3. The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An ...

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    ISBN. 3447045035. The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary is a 2001 book by Garland Cannon and Alan S. Kaye. It is a historical dictionary of Persian loanwords in English which includes 811 Persian words appeared in English texts since 1225 CE.

  4. Pahlavi scripts - Wikipedia

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    Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various Middle Iranian languages. The essential characteristics of Pahlavi are: [2] the use of a specific Aramaic-derived script; the incidence of Aramaic words used as heterograms (called uzwārišn, "archaisms"). Pahlavi compositions have been found for the dialects / ethnolects of Parthia ...

  5. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq (Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.

  6. Sulayman Hayyim - Wikipedia

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    14 February 1970. (1970-02-15) (aged 82) Tehran, Iran. Occupation. lexicographer, translator, essayist, poet. Spouse. Azizagha Bakhshitarzan. Sulayman Hayyim[1] (Persian: سلیمان حییم) (c. 1887 in Tehran, Iran – February 14, 1970 in Tehran), was an Iranian lexicographer, translator, playwright and essayist, often called "Iran's ...

  7. Avestan alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Avestan o is a special form of Pahlavi l that exists only in Aramaic signs. Some letters (e.g. ŋ́, ṇ, ẏ, v), are free inventions. [4] Avestan script, like Pahlavi script and Aramaic script also, is written from right to left. In Avestan script, letters are not connected, and ligatures are "rare and clearly of secondary origin".