Dari Words for Free, English Words with Dari Origin
Posted on 16. Jun, 2012 by Sayed Naqibullah in Uncategorized
Dari Words for Free, English Words with Dari Origin
The list of words, which I refer to as Dari words for free, contains the words that are very similar to their English equivalents or have Dari/Farsi origin. They are the words that you don’t need to work hard to memorize. These words are almost the same as their English equivalents; therefore they come for free without the price of learning and memorizing them.
It will require a longer discussion to discuss the origin of every word in this list, so we will only discuss two words from this list. For example, the word bazaar in English means a market place, and it comes from Dari/Farsi language. It is said that the word “bazaar” is originated from the Dari/Farsi words “Baha” which means price and “zaar” which means place so when put together it will be “BahaZaar” meaning a place of prices (بها زار ). Bazaar in Dari is now written as بازار and pronounced “baazaar”.
Another word that we will analyze as an example is “Khaki” which according to the dictionary means dull yellowish brown and is also type of pants. The word Khaki comes from the Dari word خاکی with the first “kh” pronounced from the epiglottis and comes from the word خاک “Khak” meaning soil, and by adding the letter ی “I” at the end of the word, it becomes an adjective and means the color of soil. Similarly the other words in this list can be traced back to a common origin, or to their Dari/Farsi origin. The following is a list of Dari words for free. Please watch the accompanying video for the correct pronunciation of these words in Dari.
Father Padar پدر
Mother maadar مادر
Brother beraadar برادر
Daughter dokhtar دختر
Bazaar baazaar بازار
Boots boot-ha بوت ها
Caravan karwaan کاروان
Candy qand قند
Jasmine yaasaman یاسمن
Kabob kabaab کباب
Khaki khaki خاکی
Lemon lemo لیمو
Nay Nay نی
Orange naarenj نارنج
Shawl shaal شال
Star sitara ستاره
About Sayed Naqibullah
Sayed Naqibullah speaks Pashto and Dari as his native languages. Since 2004 he has been teaching Dari and Pashto and working as cultrual advisor to NGO workers, foreigners who live, work, or are visiting Afghanistan. Sayed has worked as a linguist for several companies that produce language course-ware. He has worked as a guide, interpreter and translator of a number of NGOs working in Afghanistan. Sayed is also a blog writer on Afghan culture and languages. He is the author of a Dari language textbook called “Dari as a Second Language”.