Where did the French originate from?

Where did the French originate from?

Gaul

Is Merci French or Persian?

Originally Answered: Why do Iranian people use the French word “merci” when they are thanking someone? Merci is one of the very commonly used ones, because the Persian alternatives ‘Moteshakeram’, or ‘Mamnoon’, sometimes sound more formal, or simply harder to say. merci – (rather informal) thank you.

Was Iran a French colony?

Iran was never colonized by European powers, but this did not protect it from the colonial reach of the United Kingdom. In the late nineteenth century, the British-India Company had established a monopoly over tobacco trade in Iran, at the expense of the local merchant class.

Why does Farsi sound French?

There are plenty of French loanwords in Persian – so for a French speaker, some of them might be familiar. But generally speaking, Persian and French do not sound the same. They are related since they belong to the same language family and Persian had French loanwords.

Is Persian a beautiful language?

Persian is a soft, poetic language and it has been described as one of the most beautiful language’s in the world.

Are French and Persian related?

While distant, French and Farsi are actually cousins. Both languages are members of the Indo-European language family which stems from a (albeit controversial) common language called, naturally, Indo-European.

Are Iranians Arabs?

With the exception of various minority ethnic groups in Iran (one of which is Arab), Iranians are Persian. Persian and Arab histories only merge in the 7th century with the Islamic conquest of Persia.

Are Persians Muslims?

The vast majority of Persians practice Shīʿite Islam. In addition to the Zoroastrians, Persian adherents of the Bahāʾī faith (which originated in Iran) constitute a tiny minority of the population, their religion having been strongly discouraged by the Muslim government.

Are Persians Arabs?

Arab people, or Arabs, are those people who inhabit the Arab world. “Arab world” is considered to be located in North Africa and Western Asia; Persians are those people who inhabit the Iranian Cultural Continent which includes the Iranian Plateau to the Indus River of Pakistan in the east to Turkey in the West.

What race is a Persian person?

Iranian

Is Turkey Arab or Persian?

Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others. There are over 200 million Arabs.

Why is Iran not called Persia?

In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name for Iran. On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah asked foreign delegates to use the Persian term Iran (meaning the land of Aryans in Persian), the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence.

How many wives can you have in Iran?

four wives

What is Persia called today?

Iran

What is the Iran religion?

Sunni and Shi’i are the two largest branches of Islam, with the overwhelming majority of Iranians practicing Shi’i Islam. About 90 percent of Iranians practice Shi’ism, the official religion of Iran.

When did Iran convert to Islam?

Islam in Iran can be categorised into two periods – Sunni Islam from the 7th century to the 15th century and then Shia Islam post 16th century. The Safavid dynasty made Shia Islam the official state religion in the early sixteenth century and aggressively proselytized the faith by forced conversion.

What religion was Iran before Islam?

Zoroastrianism was the state religion of three Persian dynasties, until the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century A.D. Zoroastrian refugees, called Parsis, escaped Muslim persecution in Iran by emigrating to India.

Can you practice Christianity in Iran?

Christians of Iran have played a significant part in the history of Christian mission. Currently there are at least 600 churches and 500,000–1,000,000 Christians in Iran.

Who is Iran’s God?

Beside Ahura Mazdā, Mithra is the most important deity of the ancient Iranian pantheon and may have even…… The Persian god Mithra (Mithras), the god of light, was introduced much later, probably not before the…… … culminated in the religion of Mithra of Persia.

Is Iran a religious country?

Iran is an Islamic republic. Its constitution mandates that the official religion is Islam (see: Islam in Iran), specifically the Twelver Ja’fari school of Islam, with other Islamic schools being accorded full respect.