Re: Persian or Farsi? (was RE: Decimal separator with more than o ne c haracter?)

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 08:33:59 EDT

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    On Wed, 21 May 2003, Noah Levitt wrote:

    > Farsi, n. (a.)
    >
    > a. = PARSEE 2. b. The Persian name for the modern Persian language;
    > cf. PERSIAN n. 2. Also attrib. or as adj.

    This makes it clear that OED prefers "Persian" to "Farsi".

    > Iranian, a. and n.
    > [...]
    > 2. The Iranian language.

    Which doesn't make any sense to me at all. What is the *Iranian*
    language?! Which edition of OED is this?

    roozbeh

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