Sentence examples for persian has from inspiring English sources

But Stewart, who speaks Persian, has no orientalist illusions; he romanticizes nothing and no one.

Other than markers to indicate that nouns and pronouns are direct objects, Modern Persian has no system of case inflections.

Persian has been a literary language since the 9th century, and there is an increasing awareness of the continuity of its literary tradition with the earlier periods.

For centuries New Persian has also been a prestigious cultural language in western Central Asia, on the Indian subcontinent, and in Turkey.

Henceforth, he said, they would be free to wander about in manteau (the coat is European in inspiration and Persian has taken the French word) and head scarf.

Even though it had fallen into disrepair by the early 20th century, Osler noted that "the great Persian has still a large practice, as his tomb is much visited by pilgrims, among whom cures are said to be not uncommon".

Persian had been the official language of the country for many centuries.

Already under the Sāsānians a standard form of Persian had come into being that was called Fārsī-yi Darī ("Persian of the Court").

In collaboration with its close ally Persian mystical poetry, the new wisdom determined the intellectual outlook and spiritual mood of educated Muslims in the regions where Persian had become the dominant literary language.

Although many aspects of Arabic language and literature penetrated Persian grammar and literature over the centuries, many of the major structures of Modern Persian have remained close to those found in Pahlavi.

In addition to these sounds Old Persian had another sibilant sound, often transcribed as ç or ss, which developed from the cluster θr (pronounced as the thr in three).