List of common or similar words in English and Persian
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Persian words in this document are romanized to make a more convenient sense of the similarities. The effort has been put not to include newly borrowed words (in recent centuries) from either language.
A[edit]
- Amass
- Amaas[1]
- Angry
- Angare minoo (Bad & Angry Essence: Mazd Yasna Religion:Zoroastrianism)
B[edit]
- Baby
- Bebe
- Bad
- Bad[2]
- Be (Being)
- Budan
- Bear (as in 'to bear')
- bordan, bar (as in 'bar gereftan')
- Band (belt, cord)
- Band[3]
- Better
- Behtar,
- Bottom
- Boniad, bon[4]
- Body
- Badan[5]
- Bronze
- Berenj;[6] berenjy (the color)
- Brother/Sister
- Baradar/khaahar, also pronounced as -er in some dialects
- Buss
- Booss, booseh
C[edit]
- Canary
- Ghanary
- Candy
- ghand (cand)
- Carcass
- What karkas (=vulture) eats
- Cave
- kav (Anythig like a cave)
- Chemistry
- Sheemi
- Child, kid
- Bacheh, kudak
- Chin
- Chāne
- Cold
- Sard (sarma also used for "cold: the disease")
- Cow
- Gaav
- Click
- Colick ( =Finger)
D[edit]
- Dark
- tarik, tar
- Data
- dade
- Daughter
- Dokhtar, also pronounced as -er in some dialects
- Decade
- Dahe
- Dente as in 'dental' or 'dentist'
- from Old Portuguese dente, from Latin dente[7] but similar to Persian word dandan
- Devil
- Deeve
- Divine
- Divaan (=supreme court)
- Dog
- Sag
- Door
- Dar
- Duck
- Ordak
- Duration
- Doure (Av:durat skt: dura)[8]
E[edit]
- Elephant
- Similar to al-feel (Arabic) from peel (Persian)
- Eyebrow
- Aabroo similar to German word augenbraue[9]
F[edit]
G[edit]
- Gang
- Jang
- Gene
- Zan (Woman, jen (in Talyshi lan))
- Giant
- Jiaan (=huge, fearless)
- Giraffe
- Zerraffeh, Zarraffeh
- Go
- Ro (went becomes raft in Persian)
- God
- Khoda
- Good, better
- Khoob, behtar (also pronounced as -er in some dialects) respectively
- Ghoul
- Ghoul (=beast)
- Grand, great
- Geraan
- Group
- Gorouh
- Grow
- Rooy(idan) from PIE root *ghre
H[edit]
Hello: Hal (Happiness and health: Ferdowsi Shahnameh
- Hey, hi
- Haai, ahai (non-respectful)
- Honor
- Aarya; this was one of the bases of a theory by Friedrich Schlegel that connected it with German Ehre (“honor”) and some older Germanic names[10]
honar هنر
- Horse
- Aasb
- Hyper (prefix)
- Abar
I[edit]
- Is
- Ast (also compare both with "est" in French, which has the same root with both languages)
- Inter
- Andar, Andaroon
J[edit]
K[edit]
- Kid
- Kudak
- King
- Kay, kavi (Avestan words)
- Kiss
- Boos
- Knee
- similar to word za-noo also pronounced za-nee in some dialects
- Know
- šnāxtan (Avestan:xšnā)[11]
L[edit]
- lip
- lab لب
- lili
- Layli لیلی
- Layer
- Laye لایه
- Linger
- langar andakhtan (derang)
- laugh
- xande خنده (Dutch and German lan: lax, laxen)
M[edit]
- Mahi-mahi
- Hawaiian[12] but the same as the word mahi (fish) in Persian
- Mama
- maman
- Man
- similar to Persian word man (= I, me), Man: Thought, Hooman (A name for men), Bahman: Vohu Manah: Good Mind
- Mean
- Mian, Miangin
- Mean
- Maana (Minoo)(intend to convey, Secret (Origin))
- Middle
- Miyan
- Month
- Maah
- Moon
- Maah
- Mother
- Maadar, also pronounced as -er in some dialects
- Mouse
- Moosh
- Murder
- Mordār, Mordeh[13]
- Muscle
- Mahicheh (=something that looks like fish)
N[edit]
- Name
- Naam
- Nana
- Naneh (= mother or grandma); similar to Greek word nanna[14]
- Nanny
- Naneh (= mother or grandma); similar to Greek word nanna
- Navy
- Naav
- New
- Noo
- nice
- nik: good
- No
- Na
- Not (as in 'not any')
- Na-
- Numbers
- One/first become Yak/Nakhost
- Numbers
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, etc.: are pronounced: dow, sei, chahar, panj, shish, haft, hasht, nouh, dah, dwazdah, sizdah (which has been the unlucky number from Achaemenid era[15][16]), chaardah, and so on.
O[edit]
- Or
- ar, agar
- Orange
- Naaranji[17] (color); naaranj (fruit)
- order
- Arta (Old Persian), Ard (New Persian) (The essence of world order, Truth)
- Osteo as in 'osteology' or 'osteopathy'
- ostokhan
- Other
- Digar
P[edit]
- Paradise
- Pardis/Firdaus
- Papa
- Baba
- Phrase
- farāz
- Pitch
- Pichesh (shib)
- Ponder
- Pendar
- post (prefix)
- pas
- Pre (prefix)
- Pish
- pro (prefix)
- farā
Q[edit]
- Quest and the family of the word (request, question,...)
- Khuast, dar-khuast, Khuastan,...
R[edit]
- ray
- raxš, rayoo(mand) (light, bright) (from Avestan root: ray)[18]
- Right
- Raast with all meanings of right side, straight, correct, entitlement, upright, and even (just)[19]
- Road
- Raah[20]
- Rose
- Roze[21]
- Rustic
- Rousta (meaning village in Persian)
- Run
- Rāndan (Guide, Move)- more inf: (Dutch: rennen (rene), Gothic rinnan, German rinnen, Proto-Germanic *rannjanan)[22] In the ancient language of the Aryans(Avesta): the root is (ran)[23]
S[edit]
- Same
- Ham (as in 'ham chenan')
- Sister
- Khahar
- Shame
- Sharm
- Six
- Shesh (Shish)
- Smooch
- Maach, mooch
- Soup
- Soup
- Spear
- Separ
- Sphere
- Sepehr[20]
- Spinach
- Espanaj, Esfanaj
- Sponge
- Esfanj
- Stand
- Estadan
- Star
- setare[24]
- State
- Estaan or ostaan; also suffix -stan as in the names of old Persian empires provinces Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Arabestan
- Steady
- estadeh or istadeh
- Steo (relating to the bones)
- Ostokhan
- Stone
- sotoon, ostovaneh
- Suffix -ed
- Suffix -d or -t in Persian to form past tense of verbs
- Suffix -ing
- -an (e.g. didan, raftan, avardan)
- Suffix -man
- Suffix -man as in Turkman, ahriman, Arman (=Armenian)
- Suffix -y
- Suffix -y or -i in Persian; meaning "made up of" or "characterized by"
- Sugar
- Shekar
- saffron
- zæfaran
T[edit]
- tion (prefix)
- sh - for example: reduc(tion): kāhe(sh), suc(tion): make(sh), reflex(tion): tābe(sh) and so on
- Trust
- Dorosti
- Tuft
- Taafteh (=woven, bunch)
- Typhoon
- Tufaan
- Tail (end)
- Tah
- Testicle
- Tokhm
- Thou (you)
- Tou
- Three
- se
- tra (trans) (prefix)
- tarā (tar) - for example: trans-port: tarā-bord, tran-slate: tar-zabāni (tar-jome) and so on
- two
- dou
U[edit]
- Ultra (prefix)
- farā (varā) - for example: Ultra-sound: farā-sowt, ultra-violet: farā-banafsh and so on
- Uni (prefix)
- yek (tak) - for example: uni-lateral: tak-sooye, uni-corn: tak-shākh, uni-lingual: tak (yek)-zabāne and so on
- Unique
- Yek, Tak, Yekta
- Upper
- Abar, Bar
V[edit]
- Voice
- Vak, Vake
W[edit]
X[edit]
Y[edit]
- Young
- Javān
Z[edit]
(z) Giraffe = Zarafe زرافه
- Ziro
- sefr
References[edit]
- ↑ "جستوجوی اماس". www.vajehyab.com.
- ↑ Keyan, Rostam (June 18, 1978). "The evolution of language". Philosophical Library – via Google Books.
- ↑ "جستوجوی بند". www.vajehyab.com.
- ↑ "جستوجوی بن". www.vajehyab.com.
- ↑ Keyan, Rostam (June 18, 1978). "The evolution of language". Philosophical Library – via Google Books.
- ↑ "معنی برنج | فرهنگ فارسی معین". www.vajehyab.com.
- ↑ "dente - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org.
- ↑ de vaan, michiel (2008). Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages. Brill. Search this book on
- ↑ Keyan, Rostam (June 18, 1978). "The evolution of language". Philosophical Library – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Aryan - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org.
- ↑ Kent, Roland.G (1950). Old Persian. American Oriental Society. p. 182. Search this book on
- ↑ "mahi-mahi - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org.
- ↑ Keyan, Rostam (June 18, 1978). "The evolution of language". Philosophical Library – via Google Books.
- ↑ "nanny - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org.
- ↑ "The Near East" – via Google Books.
- ↑ MASOCHA, Dr WALTER (November 18, 2013). Kingdom Dynamics and Theorems. Author House. ISBN 9781491875971 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Brice, Nathaniel (June 18, 1864). "A Romanized Hindūstāni and English Dictionary: Designed for the Use of Schools ..." Trübner & Company – via Google Books.
- ↑ Kanga, Kavasji (1900). A complete dictionary of the Avesta Language. education society's steam press. p. 433. Search this book on
- ↑ "Google Translate". translate.google.ca.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Keyan, Rostam (June 18, 1978). "The evolution of language". Philosophical Library – via Google Books.
- ↑ "rose - Wiktionary". en.wiktionary.org.
- ↑ "Run". online etymology dictionary. etymonline.com.
- ↑ Kanga, Kavasji (1900). A complete dictionay of the avesta language. education society's steam press. p. 441. Search this book on
- ↑ "Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language) - PDF Free Download". epdf.pub.
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