A great number of words of
French origin have entered the
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken a ...
since the
early modern period. The following is a partial list of these loanwords:
See also
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Persian vocabulary
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Francisation
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France–Iran relations
French–Iranian relations are the international relations between France and Iran. Iran has generally enjoyed a friendly relationship with France since the Middle Ages. The travels of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier are particularly well known to Safav ...
References
* Petit Larousse in Persian, edited by ''Hedayat Alah Ghatan'', 1967.
* Collins French English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers 2005.
* Persian English Dictionary, ''S. Haim'', Hippocrene Books 2002.
External links
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