Persian vocabulary

Persian vocabulary

Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family, and many words in modern Persian usage ultimately originate from Proto-Indo-European. The language makes extensive use of word building techniques such as affixation and compounding to derive new words from roots. Persian has also had considerable contact with other languages, resulting in many borrowings.

Native word formation

Persian is very powerful in word building and versatile in ways a word can be built from combining affixes, stems, nouns and adjectives. Persian frequently uses derivational agglutination to form new words from nouns, adjectives, and verbal stems. New words are extensively formed by compounding – two existing words combining into a new one, as is common in German. Professor Mahmoud Hessaby demonstrated that Persian can derive 226 million words. [http://www.fareiran.com/no26/1.htm FAREIRAN.COM / فرايران ] ]

An example set of words derived from a present stem combined with some of available affixes:

ee also

*List of French loanwords in Persian‎
*Academy of Persian Language and Literature
*List of English words of Persian origin
*Persian Today Corpus
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