English

Alternative forms

• Parsee
• Parsi

Proper noun

Farsi

1. (proscribed) The standard Persian language; national language of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
   • 1820, William Erskine, "On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis", Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, volume II, page 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.

   • 1991, Richard Felix Staar, Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union, page 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.

   • 1999, Maria O'Shea, Culture shock! Iran, page 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.

   • 2001, Dan Baumann, Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear, page 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' […]

Usage notes

• Popular use of the term Farsi in English is very recent; Persian is the older name of the language in English.
• Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature believes that Farsi is not an appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English. Some groups hotly debate the use of Farsi at all as an English word.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}
• ISO formerly called the language "Western Farsi", but now designates it as "Iranian Persian". Ethnologue calls the language "Western Farsi", but also gives the synonyms of Persian and New Persian.

Synonyms

• (language): Dari, Persian, Tajiki

Translations

See also

• Iran
• Iranian
• Persia
• Persian
• Wikipedia article on the Persian language

References

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ “Persian or Farsi?”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Iranian.com, 1997-12-16, retrieved 2011-12-23
3. ↑ “Fársi:''recently appeared language!''”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Persiandirect.com, accessed 2011-12-23
4. ↑ “Persian or Fársi?”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Persiandirect.com, accessed 2011-12-23
5. ↑ “Announcement of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature about the name of Persian language”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Heritage.chn.ir, 2005-11-19, retrieved 2011-12-23
6. ↑ “متنِ اعلامِ نظرِ شورای فرهنگستانِ زبان و ادبِ فارسی درباره‌ی کاربردِ Farsi به جای Persian در مکاتباتِ وزارتِ امورِ خارجه”, in Nāme-ye Farhangestān [The Quarterly Journal of The Academy of Persian Language and Literature] (PDF, in Persian), volume 1, issue 1, Tehran, Spring 1995, page 152

Anagrams

• fairs
• rafsi

Catalan

Proper noun

farsi m

1. Farsi; Western Persian (an Indo-Aryan language of Iran)

Usage notes

While farsi has been gaining some currency in Catalan, as it has with other European languages, for the Persian of Iran, the preferred scholarly term remains persa occidental.

Synonyms

• persa occidental

Hypernyms

• persa ‎(“Persian”)

Finnish

Noun

farsi

1. Persian (language).
2. A person speaking Persian as his mother tongue.
3. In plural (farsit), the Persians collecively.

Usage notes

In Finnish the term farsi has been adopted to refer to the modern language, which is the official language of Iran, and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and Tadjikistan. Until about 1970's the language was called persia. In English, the term Persian is the accepted one, although Farsi is currently gaining some ground. The Finnish term persia is currently reserved to the old Persian language.

Declension

Synonyms

• farsin kieli
• persia
• persian kieli

Icelandic

Noun

farsi m ‎(genitive singular farsa, nominative plural farsar)

1. farce, a comedy, a comedic play
2. farce

Synonyms

• skopleikrit

Derived terms

• farsakenndur

Anagrams

• frasi

Italian

Verb

farsi

1. reflexive of fare
2. to become
3. to make oneself, get oneself
4. to make, have (sexually)
5. to cop off with

Conjugation

Related terms

• farsela
• farsene
• farsi male

Anagrams

• frasi

Latin

Verb

farsī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of farciō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

farsi m ‎(definite singular farsien) (uncountable)

1. Persian or Farsi (a language)

Synonyms

• persisk

References

• “farsi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

farsi m ‎(definite singular farsien) (uncountable)

1. Persian or Farsi (language)

Synonyms

• persisk

References

• “farsi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

farsi m ‎(Cyrillic spelling фарси)

1. Farsi, Persian (language)

Synonyms

• perzijski
• persijski