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Iran and the Caucasus, 2022
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the specific terminological usage of a polysemantic lexeme, yādgār (generally meaning today “souvenir, keepsake; remembrance”), in New Persian of the Classical period, particularly in the Shahnama by Firdausi (10th century).
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A New Iraq with a Persian Flavor?

2022
This chapter explores the Saudis’ perception of what was taking place in Iraq in the period between the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the end of 2005, a period that saw the emergence of Shia Islamist power in Baghdad. Consistent with their preexisting beliefs about an inherent Iranian expansionism, the Saudis perceived that Iran aimed to assert
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From Old to New Persian

2018
This chapter looks at the long evolution of Persian, which is the only Iranian language to be substantially documented in all three periods of Old, Middle, and New Iranian on account of its close association with the main political centres for most of the time over the centuries: Old Persian with the Achaemenids, Middle Persian with the Sasanians, and ...
Mauro Maggi, Paola Orsatti
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The New Persian Preverb BI-

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1977
Close analysis of Early New Persian texts shows that the ENP verbal prefix bi- (Modern Persian be-) had a directional sense and aspectually delimiting force, and was, in fact, a preverb. Crosslinguistic parallels are examined. Arguments that the occurrence of ENP bi- depends on word and phrase stress are shown to be invalid. The preverbal status of ENP
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middle persian
persian language
armenian

šah-amir
vahram-šah
sult‘an-šah

persian gulf
grammaticalization