Dari is used as the name for a variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, and is also used more broadly as a name for New Persian, describing all contemporary varieties of Persian.
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Dari may also refer to:
Dari is used as the name for a variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan, and is also used more broadly as a name for New Persian, describing all contemporary varieties of Persian.
Dari may also refer to:
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 and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian, Dari Persian and Tajiki Persian. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivation of the Cyrillic script.
The Persians are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
Zoroastrianism is an Iranian religion and one of the world's oldest organized faiths, based on the teachings of the Iranian-speaking prophet Zoroaster. It has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil within the framework of a monotheistic ontology and an eschatology which predicts the ultimate conquest of evil by good. Zoroastrianism exalts an uncreated and benevolent deity of wisdom known as Ahura Mazda as its supreme being. Historically, the unique features of Zoroastrianism, such as its monotheism, messianism, belief in free will and judgement after death, conception of heaven, hell, angels, and demons, among other concepts, may have influenced other religious and philosophical systems, including the Abrahamic religions and Gnosticism, Northern Buddhism, and Greek philosophy.
Dari, also known as Dari Persian, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language, hence it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in many Western sources. As Professor Nile Green remarks "the impulses behind renaming of Afghan Persian as Dari were more nationalistic than linguistic" in order to create an Afghan state narrative. Apart from a few basics of vocabulary, there is little difference between formal written Persian of Afghanistan and Iran. The term "Dari" is officially used for the characteristic spoken Persian of Afghanistan, but is best restricted to formal spoken registers. Persian-speakers in Afghanistan still prefer to call their language “Farsi,” while Pashto-speakers may sometimes refer to it as "Parsi." Farsi Dari serves as the lingua franca for interethnic communications in Afghanistan.
Zoroastrian Dari is a Persian dialect and a Northwestern Iranian ethnolect.
Mehr or Mihr may refer to:
Pahlavi may refer to:
Bahrām is a male given name. Other variants Behram, Bahran, Vahran, and Vahram
New Persian, also known as Modern Persian and Dari (دری), is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings. It is conventionally divided into three stages: Early New Persian, Classical Persian, and Contemporary Persian.
Aryan was a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.
Sara may refer to:
Mehran is derived from the term mehr, relating to Mithra, an ancient Zoroastrian Persian deity.
Ramin or Rameen, transliterated from Rāmin, is a Persian masculine given name of Zoroastrian origin. It is also an occasional surname. Notable people with the name include:
A sari is a female garment in the Indian subcontinent.
Esfandiar, also transliterated as Esfandyar, Isfandiyor, Isfandiar, Isfandiyar or Esfandiar, is a common Persian given name and may refer to the following:
Marzieh is a Persian feminine given name. In Dari Persian it is pronounced as Marzia.
Nika is a female or male given name having multiple origins in different languages and countries. In Slavic countries the name comes from the Ancient Greek goddess of victory "Nike". Nika is a female name in Persian, language meaning "very good" and "pure crystal water", it derives from "Nik" meaning "Good", "True" and "Chosen". Nika is also the name of a river in north of Iran. Zoroastrianism, the ancient Iranian religion believes in the motto "Pendar Nik", "Goftar Nik", and "Kerdar Nik". In the Pashto language, Nika is a male given name meaning "grandfather". In Saraiki language Nika means "little" and used to be a popular nickname for the youngest boy in the family.
Bakhshi is a Dari, Persian, Pakistani and Indian surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
Azar is the ninth month of the Solar Hijri calendar.
Azar is the common English spelling for several given names and surnames: the Arabic عازار ʿāzār, the Persian آذر āẕar, as well as a Hebrew name עזר. Azar is a common boys', girls', and last name in Persian-speaking countries. Azar means fire in Persian. Azarkadeh or Atashkadeh are the places of worship for Zoroastrians. Zoroastrianism is a religion and a belief that originated in Iran.