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A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing. [1][2] Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws ...
The Ottomans had three influential languages, known as "Alsina-i Thalātha" (The Three Languages), that were common to Ottoman readers: Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian. [2] Turkish was spoken by the majority of the people in Anatolia and by the majority of Muslims of the Balkans except in Albania, Bosnia, and various Aegean Sea islands ...
Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil. Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew. Tamil loanwords in other languages. Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil. Tatsama. List of loanwords in Thai. List of replaced loanwords in Turkish. Categories: Lists of words.
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".
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 'p', respectively), in ...
The letter hāʾ is also used in Parkari to represent the sound [h] in native Parkari words, in Arabic and Persian loanwords, and to represent vowels (/ə/ or /əʰ/) at the end of the word. The notations and conventions in Parkari and Sindhi are different from either Persian or Arabic and from Urdu.
A great number of words of French origin have entered the Persian language since the early modern period. The following is a partial list of these loanwords: French. Persian (Persian alphabet) Persian (Perso-Latin alphabet) Meaning and usage. abat-jour. آباژور.
The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects, standard varieties, and even from older varieties of Persian.Persian is a pluricentric language and countries that have Persian as an official language have separate standard varieties, namely: Standard Dari (Afghanistan), Standard Iranian Persian and Standard Tajik (). [1]