Farsi

farsi fársí English Alternative forms en Parsee en Parsi Etymology en :bor fa:فارسی 1 Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Brian Spooner (1994) "Are we teaching Persian? or farsi? or dari? or tojiki?" in Mehdi Marashi (ed.) Persian Studies in North America: Studies in Honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery, page 176 From en fa فارسی fârsi, meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (fa-ear پَارْس pārs) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from en hi फ़ारसी from the same word. Pronunciation färʹsē, en /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/ en En-us-Farsi.ogg US en ɑː(ɹ)si 2 Proper noun en proscribed en Persian (the language). en 1820 William Erskine On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay II 315 That the Farsi or Persian is not a language derived from the Pehlevi, but a collateral and independent tongue, seems to be sufficiently certain. en 1991 Richard Felix Staar Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union 91 In July 1984, Radio Iran Toilers began broadcasting in Farsi from Afghanistan; by the end of 1988 it was transmitting twenty-one hours a week. en 1999 Maria O'Shea Culture shock! Iran 75 The method of writing Farsi is logical, although reading can be trickier, as one has to guess at the unwritten consonants of unfamiliar words. en 2001 Dan Baumann Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear 20 We chatted away in Farsi. 2009, Vit Bubenik, "The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian", page 97 in Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305 For instance, in Farsi pošt means 'back' (noun) as in pošt=am dard mikonad 'my back hurts' en proscribed informal Iranian Persian, as opposed to Dari (Afghan Persian) and Tajik (Tajik Persian). en Hijra Farsi Usage notes Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature states that "Farsi" is not an appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English. Some groups debate over the use of "Farsi" at all as an English word.PersianDirect http://www.persiandirect.com/articles/2004/july/id_00003.htm Fársi:''recently appeared language!'' Persiandirect.com 2011-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303191652/http://www.persiandirect.com/articles/2004/july/id_00003.htm 3 March 2016PersianDirect http://www.persiandirect.com/articles/2004/july/id_00001.htm Persian or Fársi? Persiandirect.com 2011-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20160915195418/http://www.persiandirect.com/articles/2004/july/id_00001.htm 15 September 2016http://heritage.chn.ir/en/Article/?id=88 Announcement of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature about the name of Persian language Heritage.chn.ir 2005-11-19 2011-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20100918092618/http://heritage.chn.ir/en/Article/?id=88 18 September 2010fa متنِ اعلامِ نظرِ شورای فرهنگستانِ زبان و ادبِ فارسی درباره‌ی کاربردِ Farsi به جای Persian در مکاتباتِ وزارتِ امورِ خارجه Nāme-ye Farhangestān [The Quarterly Journal of The Academy of Persian Language and Literature] 1995 Spring 1 1 152 http://www.persianacademy.ir/UserFiles/image/naame01.pdf Samī‘ī Gīlānī, Aḥmad Tehran PDF 26 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035325/http://www.persianacademy.ir/UserFiles/image/naame01.pdf 4 March 2016 Popular use of the term "Farsi" in English is relatively recent. Its usage to refer to Iranian Persian specifically is in analogy to the usage of Dari and Tajik, which are de jure treated as separate languages by the governments of Afghanistan and Tajikistan; however, government officials in Iran do not distinguish Iranian Persian as a separate language, and fa فارسی (i.e. "Farsi") is used de facto by government officials of Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well. Synonyms language en Persian Derived terms en Fenglish Hijra Farsi Translations Persian language Persian See also en Persia Wikipedia article on the Persian language Adjective more en proscribed Persian References Further reading Farsi English Dictionary Persian-English Dictionary pes International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 2011 1 10 Hall Kira Kira Hall Queer but Language: A Sociolinguistic Study of Farsi Avtans Abhishek Linguistica Indica 2018-09-09 A secret language of homosexuals of Delhi https://rapidiq.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/a-secret-language-of-homosexuals-of-delhi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190810183752/https://rapidiq.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/a-secret-language-of-homosexuals-of-delhi/ 10 August 2019 Roy Himadri Gaylaxy 2013-05-20 Farsi: A Lost Language of Gay Delhi http://www.gaylaxymag.com/exclusive/farsi-a-lost-language-of-gay-delhi/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251115114242/https://www.gaylaxymag.com/exclusive/farsi-a-lost-language-of-gay-delhi/ 15 November 2025 Anagrams en afirs Frias RIFAs fairs fiars rafsi en Languages Iran Indonesian Noun Persia Malay Pronunciation ms [fa(r).si] ms si i 2 ms Far si Proper noun ms Parsi