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messyarkitekt asked:
The reason why persian sounds so beautiful specially to someone like me who is an Iranian himself, is that Ferdowsi wrote his "shahname" without using a single word of Arabic! and without his influence my language would sound horrible and full of arabic words! If you study the history of Persia, the ancient persian language sounded very different to what it does now, a few similar words but different, it kind of sounded like greek! If you're not Persian don't get yourself mixed up in this...
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I am so amused.
By claiming that Ferdowsi wrote the Shahnameh without using a single word of Arabic, you’ve quickly proven to me that 1) you’ve never read the Shahnameh, or 2) you are so used to some Arabic words that you don’t recognize their origin.
I literally wrote the simplest post ever yesterday stating that Ferdowsi used Arabic in the Shahnameh. There are about 700 different Arabic words in it. Somehow this myth got started that there’s no Arabic in the Shahnameh. That’s simply not true.
What’s cool about the Shahnameh, though, is that it’s written in the masnavi form, a Persian pattern of poetry.
Also, just to make this clear, I do study Iranian history. And I’ve studied some Middle Persian too.
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ayatollahofsass said:
Seriously, it’s in the Wikipedia page on the Persian language that 2% of the words in the Shahnameh are arabic. Obviously if you disagree with him there’s no way you can be a member of the “Cyrus’s True Aryan Iranian race.”
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partytilfajr said:
Boom.
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naasirheydari said:
آقا اگر از صدای یونانی خوشت میاد برو یونان و خودت را یونانی شمار. زبان ما همین جوری که هست زیباست و لزومی نیست کسی چون تو بیاد و تهین کند به زبان شیرین اجداد ما
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realfakescientist said:
lulz, what is wrong with some people….farsi had an influence on arabic, just as arabic had and influence on farsi…simple as that.
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