The story
- Classical Persian · derived fromزعفرانی“saffrony”
- Hindustani · borrowed from
- English todayzafrani
Borrowed from Hindustani زَعْفَرانی (zaʻfarānī, “saffrony”) / ज़ाफ़रानी (zāfrānī), from Classical Persian زعفرانی (za'frāni, “saffrony”), from زعفران (za'frân, “saffron”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.