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Perso-Arabic

US/ˈpəɹsoʊ̯ˌæɹəbɪk/

Perso-Arabic adjective: relating to Persian vocabulary, particularly Persian words originally derived from Arabic, but often also including Persian terms not from Arabic.

Adjective

Perso-Arabic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to Persian vocabulary, particularly Persian words originally derived from Arabic, but often also including Persian terms not from Arabic.
    • Much of Urdu's vocabulary is of Perso-Arabic origin.
    • The attitude towards Persian and Arabic vocabulary in India, and Bollywood songs in particular, is entirely different. While puristic tendencies are not unknown in Hindi (especially the re-Sanskritisation movement), we see no powerful drive to eradicate the lexica of Perso-Arabic origin, and the...2023, Tomasz Gacek, Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, Some remarks on the Perso-Arabic nominal lexica in Bollywood movie song lyrics, pages 39-67
  2. Relating to the Persian alphabet and other varieties of the Arabic script derived from it.
    • The Perso-Arabic script is a writing system used in several Eastern languages.2020 February 28, Canada.ca, Perso-
    • Until 1929, Azerbaijani had been written in the Perso-Arabic script, reflecting two critical roots of the modern Azerbaijani language and identity. First, it signified the enduring presence of Islam, which reached Azerbaijan in the 7th century and gave rise to a rich Islamic intellectual tradition...2025 June 2, Sara Amir, “Between the Lines: Azerbaijan’s Alphabet Reforms Trace a Century of Cultural Detachment and Return”, in Brown Political Review, Providence

Perso-Arabic meaning in Urdu

Perso-Arabic in Urdu

Perso-Arabic
معجمہ mu'ajjama

Examples of Perso-Arabic in a sentence

  • In contemporary literary Hindi there is an abundance of Perso-Arabic loanwords which often function similarly to words of Sanskrit origin.2022, Jacek Bąkowski, “Translation of Perso-Arabic loanwords from Hindi into Polish: A pilot study"”, in Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, volume...
  • Until 1929, Azerbaijani had been written in the Perso-Arabic script, reflecting two critical roots of the modern Azerbaijani language and identity.2025 June 2, Sara Amir, “Between the Lines: Azerbaijan’s Alphabet Reforms Trace a Century of Cultural Detachment and Return”, in Brown...

Origin of Perso-Arabic

From Perso- + Arabic.

Questions about Perso-Arabic

What does Perso-Arabic mean?
Perso-Arabic means relating to Persian vocabulary, particularly Persian words originally derived from Arabic, but often also including Persian terms not from Arabic.
What is Perso-Arabic in Urdu?
Perso-Arabic in Urdu is معجمہ (mu'ajjama). See Perso-Arabic meaning in Urdu.
How do you use Perso-Arabic in a sentence?
In contemporary literary Hindi there is an abundance of Perso-Arabic loanwords which often function similarly to words of Sanskrit origin.
What part of speech is Perso-Arabic?
Perso-Arabic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce Perso-Arabic?
Perso-Arabic is pronounced /ˈpəɹsoʊ̯ˌæɹəbɪk/ (US).

Words near Perso-Arabic in the dictionary

  1. Perskys
  2. persnicketily
  3. persnicketiness
  4. persnickety
  5. Perso-
  6. Perso-Arabic
  7. Persoid
  8. person
  9. Person County
  10. person deprived of liberty
  11. person from Porlock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Perso-Arabic (page history and authors); معجمہ (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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