List Of English Words Of Persian Origin

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! As Indo-European languages, English and Persian have many words of common Proto-Indo-European origin, and many of these words often have similar forms. Examples of these include: English (Mother) and Persian (Madar), English (Father) and Persian (Padar), English (Daughter) and Persian (Dokhtar), English (jungle) and Persian (jangal), English (Brother) and Persian (Baradar) and English (Name) and Persian (Nam). However, this article will be concerned with loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, via one or more intermediary languages.