Farsi

• Parsee
• Parsi

Apparently first used widely in English in the late 1960s or early 1970s.^[1] From Persian فارسی (fârsi), meaning "relating to Fars", the Arabicized form of the name of the province of Pars (Early New Persian پَارْس (pārs)) which was adopted in Iran following the Arab conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The sense for the hijra argot is from Hindi फ़ारसी (fārsī) from the same word.

• enPR: färʹsē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɑː(ɹ)si/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)si

Farsi

1. (proscribed) Synonym of Persian (“The Persian language”).
   • 1820, William Erskine, “On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis”, in 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' […]

2. (proscribed, informal) Iranian Persian, as opposed to Dari (Afghan Persian) and Tajik (Tajik Persian)

Farsi (uncountable)

1. An argot of hijras, or catamites, in North India and Pakistan.

• Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature states that "Farsi" is not an appropriate term to use for the Persian language in English. Some groups debate over the use of "Farsi" at all as an English word.^[2][3][4][5]
• Popular use of the term "Farsi" in English is relatively recent. Its usage to refer to Iranian Persian specifically is in analogy to the usage of Dari and Tajik, which are de jure treated as separate languages by the government's of Afghanistan and Tajikistan; However, government officials in Iran do not distinguish Iranian Persian as a separate language, and فارسی (i.e. "Farsi") is used de facto by government officials of Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well.

• (language): Persian

• Persia
• Wikipedia article on the Persian language

Farsi (comparative more Farsi, superlative most Farsi)

1. (proscribed) Persian

• Farsi English Dictionary
• Persian-English Dictionary
• Ethnologue entry for Farsi, pes ⁠
• Hall, Kira (2011), “Queer but Language: A Sociolinguistic Study of Farsi”, in International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, volume 1, number 10
• Avtans, Abhishek (9 September 2018), “A secret language of homosexuals of Delhi”, in Linguistica Indica‎^[5]
• Roy, Himadri (20 May 2013), “Farsi: A Lost Language of Gay Delhi”, in Gaylaxy

• Frias, RIFAs, fairs, fiars, rafsi

Farsi (plural Farsi-Farsi)

1. Persia

• IPA^(key): [fa(r).si]
• Rhymes: -si, -i
• Hyphenation: Far‧si

Farsi

1. obsolete form of Parsi