English example sentences with "Persian"

The best advice to follow when buying a Persian carpet is to have a good knowledge of carpets!
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There is an old story about a Persian cat.
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A Persian cat was sleeping under the table.
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Long live the Persian language!
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Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.
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Historically, the Persian Gulf belongs to Iran.
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As commercial and cultural contacts between East and West developed, Arab and Persian traders began calling on China along the Silk Road in increasing numbers.
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Contemporary Persian poems haven’t been known in west world as well as ancient ones.
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Although many European researchers have studied ancient Persian literature in the nineteenth century, the new world is not paying attention to our contemporary literature.
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There was a Persian cat sleeping on the table.
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Asherah is the Persian name for Easter.
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Many Persian words exist in Turkish.
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Ali learnt the Persian language in order to be able to read the original text of the Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi.
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I am reading Persian.
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The Persian Gulf is located between Iran (Persia) and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Iranian people strongly believe in the Persian character of the Persian Gulf.
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Persian Gulf is an element of historical identity of Iranian People.
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I am studying Persian.
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I am studying the Persian language.
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The Persian cat slept on the table.
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In some languages like French or Persian, a potato is called an 'apple of the earth'.
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Indians know their country by many names: "Bharat" from Sanskrit, "Hindustan" from Persian and "India" from English.
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Tom bought a Persian rug.
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Quarter-tone intervals, which are used in Persian and Arabian music, are sometimes notated with slashed flats and sharps.
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I want to learn Persian.
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Do you want to learn Persian?
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Persian is not a difficult language.
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Do you know Persian?
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I speak the Persian language.
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Persian is not hard.
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I think I want to study Persian.
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Long live Persian!
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Besides Arabic, Turkish, and Persian, the colonial languages of English and French remain in use.
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Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, "All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight."

Mary likes to make a quick Persian mustard salad dressing with 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon of white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, salt, and pepper.

In the Turkish language, there are many Persian words.

"I can shave without looking in a mirror!" "That's good, but do not stand over my Persian carpet. You're bloody!"

In Greek literature, the Seven Seas were the Aegean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Black, Red, and Caspian seas, and the Persian Gulf.

But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.

Translate Persian literature into Esperanto.

Dari is a dialect of the Persian language.

Have you shut the Persian blinds?

An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.

He was an admirable Persian poet.

I am learning Persian.

After much deliberation, Kelly decided to purchase the venetian blind instead of the persian blind.

What do you think about the war in the Persian Gulf?

Latin, Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit descended from a common ancestor.

Juhuri, Persian, Kurdish, and Pashto are Iranian languages.

Although the Kashmiri language uses many Persian-origin words, it is in fact, an Indo-Aryan language.

She survived the Blitz and then moved to Texas, where she met my Persian father in 1958.

The word 'algorithm' has its roots in Latinizing the name of Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the first steps to algorismus.

The word algorithm itself is derived from the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Latinized Algoritmi.

Avestan and Old Persian were Old Iranian languages.

Esther is a Persian Jew.

Esther was a Persian Jew.

Omid is Persian.

The Persian Gulf lies between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.

Omid is a Persian Christian.

There are many Persian loanwords in the Turkish language.

"Frank, Zoroastrianism is a Persian religion that predates Islam." "Tell me more, Don." "Zoroastrians use fire in purification rituals. They often pray in the presence of fire." "Fascinating, Don."

How similar is Pashto to Persian?

This looks like Arabic, not Persian.

This looks like Arabic typed with a Persian keyboard.

I'm considering studying Persian.

Have you ever read Persian poetry?

Judeo-Tat is separate from Judeo-Persian.

The Hindi word for god is cognate to the Persian word for demon.

Hindi is written using the Devanagari script, whilst Urdu is written using the Arabic-Persian script.

My Persian cat has a long coat that tends to get tangled easily.

An Iranian state TV network’s unusual decision to censor the crest of Italian football club AS Roma has helped the club attract a big following of Iranian fans to its new Persian Twitter account.

Persian rugs are on the floor, a Victorian shawl hangs above the bed, newspapers lie on the dresser and a clamshell ashtray sits next to it.

I speak Persian.

You speak English and Persian.

The fact that Shah Jahan built the structure is attested to by the official Persian-language chronicles and other accounts of the period, as well as by the historical accounts and travelogues written by some 17th-century European travelers, said the professor of medieval history.

In Babylonia the sacred tree was no doubt closely associated with Istar, the divine mother, who was originally not a Semitic, but an Accadian goddess, and whose cult, together with that of her bridegroom Tammuz, was introduced into Chaldaea from Eridu, a city which flourished on the shores of the Persian Gulf between 3000 and 4000 B.C.

For the most part the scientists and philosophers of the Muslim world were of Persian, Turkish, or Berber blood, but al-Kindi was descended from the Yemenite kings of Kinda.

Now how do you say "abstract" in Persian?

Focusing on the Greek victory over vastly larger Persian forces at the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., "300" grossed $70 million in its first weekend of U.S. release.

She is a Persian-American athlete who was both a state and national Tae Kwon Do champion, and one of the top amateur boxers in the world.

Afghanistan was influenced by the Persian Empire, Greek influence under Alexander the Great, and later the Islamic Caliphates.

Afghan cuisine includes dishes like kebabs, pilaf, and naan, influenced by Persian, Central Asian, and South Asian cuisines.

Slipper is a chubby pale blue persian cat owned by cinderella.

The European Enlightenment stood on the shoulders of Arab, Persian, and Chinese giants.

By chance in Persian, mahi means "fish", but the word mahi-mahi is Hawaiian.

Zoroastrianism is based on the revelations of the Persian prophet Zarathustra, or Zoroaster in Greek.

Would it be possible to write mountain in persian?

The Persian cat was asleep under the table.

How do you write the word "mountain" in Persian?

I come from Iran. I'm Iranian, and I speak Persian.

I come from Afghanistan. I'm Afghan, and I speak Persian.

I don't speak Persian.

Persian is written and read from right to left.

Today is the 9th of July of 2025, a bit of a wet day for summer. At Tim Hortons café, I partied by myself by eating two Supreme Stack sandwiches at different times, an extravagant expense for me. I drank two Iced Coffees with oat milk and an Iced Classic Lemonade. I didn't have a Fruit Explosion Muffin. I saw Lyle the white man sitting at a different corner. On the 7th, I went to the "Clam Temple," the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road, for the 66th time this year. On the 6th, I met Timur the Kazakh, waiting for his "fiery Persian" girlfriend at Tim Hortons café. The first time that I saw him, I enquired: "Are you Japanese? Filipino? Chinese? Korean? I couldn't guess..." as he denied the sequence of guesses. He was "Kazakh," like my pizza delivery man friend Adil from years ago at Pizza Hut. Timur is a handsome man, part-Russian and speaks Russian, Kazakh, and heavily accented English. He was wearing green camouflage army shorts. We talked about a lot of things, including his interest in video games and the auxlang Interslavic.

Ziri is a Persian-speaking Christian.

Christmas was established as a way to Christianize the pagan festival of the Unconquered Sun—itself a Roman invention to unify the worship of various solar deities throughout the empire and its colonies, including the Syrian El and the Persian Mithras.