Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

new persian

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables: new per-sian
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Example Sentences

"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 owes much to Parthian and to related dialects and it has also borrowed from Soghdian. Secondly, it has admitted a considerable proportion of Arabic words, a proportion which has increased with time [...]"
"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."

Synonyms

Neo-Persian

Questions

What does new persian mean?: 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.

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