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New Persian

New Persian proper noun: the form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is the direct precursor of Middle Persian.

Proper noun

New Persian

  1. The form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is the direct precursor of Middle Persian.
    • It is particularly in its vocabulary that New Persian departs from Middle Persian, in two different ways. First, New Persian contains many words which are originally foreign to Persian proper and are betrayed by their form as belonging to other, northern or eastern Iranian dialects: New Persian...1975, Gilbert Lazard, “The Rise of the New Persian Language,”, in Cambridge History of Iran, volume IV, page 597
    • the earliest samples of New Persian consist of a handful of verses dating from the end of the 3rd/9th century, by which time the influx [from Arabic] had been going on for two centuries.1986, Lawrence Paul Elwell-Sutton, “Arabic Language III”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 2, page 234
    Synonyms:
    Neo-Persian

Synonyms of New Persian

Questions about New Persian

What does New Persian mean?
New Persian means the form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is the direct precursor of Middle Persian.
What part of speech is New Persian?
New Persian is a proper noun.

Words near New Persian in the dictionary

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