Talk:Farsi (disambiguation)

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The OED under "Farsi" has:
 *  a. = "Parsee" 2.   b. The Persian name for the modern Persian language; cf. "Persian" n. 2. Also attrib. or as adj.

--dab (𒁳) 16:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, that is correct. CyrusTheGreat2 (talk) 06:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Transformation of PRS to Pârs => Phârs => Fars:

Ferdowsi called the language Pârsi-e-Dari or Pârsi-ye-Dari. Different dialects of Pârsi-ye-Dari are mainly different in the way vowels are pronounced as the language is a language primarily based on consonant (as opposed to being vowel based such as Chinese or Vietnamese languages). Phârsi speaking people refer to vowels as accents and they write them as such with accents. However accents are usually omitted and only consonants are written. The word پدر PDR can be pronounced as PeDaR or PaDaR in different regions. Which is the same word as PaDRe in Spanish and Portuguese or PèRe in French. When Arabs attacked PRS (Persia, Perse, Persien) they started calling Pârsi, Phârsi because they did not and do not have the sound denoted by the letter "P" in Arabic language. Since they could not pronounce "P", they replaced the letter "P" with either "F" or "B". So Pârsi became Phârsi. The words پدر PDR in Phârsi, “Pater or Vater” in German and “Father” in English, all have the same roots. Other examples or words that went through similar transformation are PaRDiS پردیس in Phârsi, Paradise in English and Pherdos فردوس in Arabic. Similarly Palestine became Phelestin فلسطين in Arabic. --Msiya (talk) 16:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)