When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Persian language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language

    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 ...

  3. Persian alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_alphabet

    India portal. Language portal. Writing portal. The Persian alphabet (Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized:Alefbâ-ye Fârsi), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with five additional letters: پ چ ژ گ (the sounds 'g', 'zh', 'ch', and ...

  4. Darius (given name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_(given_name)

    Darius, a character from Need for Speed: Carbon. Darius, the Hand of Noxus, a playable champion character in the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. Darius, a character from The Hunger Games. Darius, the wolf character from the Patrick Carman books The Land of Elyon.

  5. Persian name - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_name

    It was composed in the 10th century by Ferdowsi and is considered by many the masterpiece of Persian literature. Approximately 10%-15% of all Persian names are from Shahnameh. A few examples are Abtin, Amad, Ardeshir, Armeen, Arjang, Babak, Barzin, Bijan, Bozorgmehr, Dana (Zana), Darab, Dariush, Esfandiar, Javid, Faramarz, Farhad, Fariborz ...

  6. Persian grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_grammar

    Persian grammar (Persian: دستور زبان فارسی, Dastur-e Zabân-e Fârsi lit. Grammar of the Persian language) is the grammar of the Persian language, whose dialectal variants are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Caucasus, Uzbekistan (in Samarqand, Bukhara and the Surxondaryo Region) and Tajikistan. It is similar to that of many other ...

  7. Iran (word) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_(word)

    In Modern Persian, the word Īrān (ایران) derives immediately from 3rd-century Middle Persian Ērān (𐭠𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭭), initially meaning "of the Aryans " [1] before acquiring a geographical connotation as a reference to the lands inhabited by the Aryans. [1] In both the geographic and demonymic senses, Ērān is distinguished from ...

  8. Amir (name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_(name)

    Alternative spelling. Ameer, Emir, Amiri. Amir (also spelled Ameer or Emir; (Arabic: أمير, Persian: امیر, Persian pronunciation: [æmiːˈɾ], Hebrew: אמיר) is a masculine name of multi-lingual origin. The name has different meanings in multiple languages. In Arabic the name means prince or royal. The word originally meant ...

  9. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of...

    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".