Sentence examples for dari from inspiring English sources

During the reign of Iskandar Muda eminent Islamic writers such as the Sufi mystics Hamzah Fansuri and Sjamsuddin dari Pasai, as well as their enemy Nūr ud-Dīn ibn Ali al-Rānīri, made Aceh an important centre of scholarship.

The sketches in Tjerita dari Djakarta (1957; "Tales of Jakarta") examine the strains and injustices Pramoedya perceived within Indonesian society after independence had been achieved.

In the former two, Middle Indo-Aryan ḍ and ḍh merge medially to ḍ (then ṛ) with a subsequent development to r in Assamese; e.g., Oriya daṛhi, Bengali daṛi, Assamese dari "beard"; Hindi, Gujarati daṛhī, Prākrit dāḍhiā.

The short stories collected in Subuh (1950; "Dawn") and Pertjikan revolusi (1950; "Sparks of Revolution") are set during the Indonesian Revolution, while those in Tjerita dari Blora (1952; "Tales of Bora") depict Javanese provincial life in the period of Dutch rule.

On past banknotes, the words "Naira dari," Hausa for "one hundred naira," had appeared in Arabic script.

But because the Dari/Farsi languages have no separate male and female pronouns - essentially, everyone is referred to as male, it apparently being the only worthy sex - she can't be sure if it was Ms. Yahya who asked about "the other one" or Hamed.[Emphasis added.] It's fair to speculate that Ms Blatchford doesn't know any Dari.

What she does know is that an honor killing is alleged, that traditional Afghan society is sexist, and that these Afghans speak Dari.