Farsi
pronunciation
How to pronounce Farsi in British English:
UK [ˈfɑ:si:]
How to pronounce Farsi in American English:
US [ˈfɑrsi]
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- Noun:
- a person of Iranian descent
- the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms
Word Origin
- Farsi (n.)
- "the modern Persian language," 1878, from the usual Iranian word for it, from Fars, the Arabic form of Pars (no "p" in Arabic), the name of a region in southwestern Iran, where the modern language evolved from Persian (an Indo-European language), to which many Arabic (Semitic) elements have been added.
Example
- 1. The man is an eejit , as we say in farsi .
- 2. We 're using farsi on facebook , twitter , and google plus .
- 3. Farsi speakers also noted that obama means " he is with us " .
- 4. More than 13500 service members have been discharged under the policy , including much-needed arabic and farsi translators .
- 5. Derakhshan , who made trips to israel and blogged in both english and farsi , has been in prison since 2008 .