Word origins

• jamA sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
• poloA ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
• tarCoal tar.
• changA traditional harp of central and southwest Asia
• taraGoodbye.
• shahA king of Persia or Iran.
• MehrThe seventh solar month of the Persian calendar.
• susSuspicion (in terms of a sus law).
• mirA traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
• pirA Muslim holy man or religious leader, especially Sufi.
• FarsiPersian
• rialThe official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.
• deyA servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
• neyA type of endblown flute.
• TirThe fourth solar month of the Persian calendar.
• bazA metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.
• pulA subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani.
• DaraA male given name from Irish.
• afghaniThe monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
• FarahA surname from Arabic.
• SinaA unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic.
• AurangabadA district of Maharashtra, India.
• mirzaAn educated man in India or Iran (Persia); an official, a clerk.
• RamsarDescribing any conservation site protected under the Ramsar Convention
• BijanA male given name from Persian.
• RumiThe Latin alphabet or writing system used for Malay and Indonesian.
• ZandA member of the Zand tribe, a Laki-speaking Kurdish tribe of western Iran.
• aradA nomadic herder.
• KermanA traditional kind of Persian carpet.
• AzarThe ninth solar month of the Persian calendar.
• farsA province of Iran.
• baftaA mask sculpture, similar in purpose to an Oscar, awarded for excellence in film, television, etc.
• sakiAny of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia with large ears and a long hairy tail that is not prehensile.
• sardarA title of Persian origin used for military or political leaders.
• saraiEither of two cities which served as the capital of the Golden Horde.
• baghA type of enclosed garden common in south and south-eastern Asia.
• RoshanA kshatriya Punjabi surname.
• arakiOf or pertaining to Arak.
• zakatAlmsgiving, usually in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property which is then used for charitable purposes; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
• ShirinA female given name from Persian.
• JahanA transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân).
• ahuThe goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.
• KashanA kind of decorative flat carpet.
• RaminA male given name.
• HosseiniA surname from Persian.
• TurkestanThe regions of Central Asia lying between Siberia to the north; Tibet (Xizang) and Xinjiang, China, modern-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to the south; the Gobi Desert to the east; and the Caspian Sea to the west.
• SamiraA female given name from Persian mainly used by Persians.
• OmidA transliteration of the Persian male given name امید (omid).
• EhsanA transliteration of the Persian male given name احسان (ehsân).
• KalaniA unisex given name from Hawaiian.
• HashemiA surname from Persian.
• AmiriA surname from Persian.
• imanifaith (in the context of African-American culture)
• attarAn essential oil extracted from flowers.
• tahrira type of vocal ornamentation; especially the variant used in the Near and Middle East
• KhaliliA surname from Persian.
• arakA clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.
• abbasiA surname from Persian
• KashgarA prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
• KazemiA surname from Persian.
• azuriteA blue vitreous mineral; a basic hydrated copper carbonate, with the chemical formula Cu²⁺₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂, used since antiquity as a blue pigment or ores to extract metallic copper.
• RizaA male given name from Persian [in turn from Arabic]; variant forms Reza, Raza, Rizo
• shushTo be quiet; to keep quiet.
• parvinAny of a class of proteins involved in actin binding.
• ShahabA kind of Iranian missile.
• LarijaniA surname from Persian.
• ImtiazA surname.
• MehranA transliteration of the Persian male given name مهران (mehrân).
• ambarAny of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on context, in Iran, Turkey, Russia or the Balkans.
• RaziA surname from Persian.
• KarimiA surname from Persian.
• AbanThe eighth solar month of the Persian calendar.
• MashhadA city in Iran, the seat of Mashhad County's Central District and the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province.
• AminiA surname from Persian.
• ChiragA male given name from Ancient Persia often used in India.
• NavidA transliteration of the Persian male given name نوید (navid, novid).
• carboyA large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.
• NouriA surname from Persian.
• kenafHibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found mainly in Asia.
• AhvazA city in Iran, the seat of Ahvaz County's Central District and the capital of Khuzestan Province.
• nardA flowering plant of species Nardostachys jatamansi, in the valerian family, that grows in the Himalayas and is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
• NatanzA city in Natanz, Isfahan Province, Iran.
• ShehzadA male given name from Persian.
• ShireenA female given name from Persian.
• HamadanA city in Iran, the seat of Hamadan County's Central District and the capital of Hamadan Province.
• Tamerlanea Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia
• TaheriA surname from Persian.
• kukuAn Iranian dish somewhat resembling a quiche or omelette.
• GhazniA city, the capital of the province of Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan; the former capital of the Ghaznavid Empire.
• VeysA city in Khuzestan province, Iran.
• MehrdadA male given name of Persian usage.
• ElbrusAn inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Elbrus's highest peak is the highest mountain in Europe, and in Russia.
• FarzadA surname from Persian.
• AbadanA port city in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran.
• SaadatA surname from Persian.
• KamaliA surname from Persian.
• JalaliA surname from Persian.
• seraiA palace.
• JafariA surname from Persian.
• parsaA Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.