Farsi

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1. proscribedSynonym of Persian (the language).

   We chatted away in Farsi.

   2001, Dan Baumann, Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear, page 20

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   That the Farsi or Persian is not a language derived from the Pehlevi, but a collateral and independent tongue, seems to be sufficiently certain.

   1820, William Erskine, “On the sacred books and religion of the Parsis”, in Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, volume II, page 315

   In July 1984, Radio Iran Toilers began broadcasting in Farsi from Afghanistan; by the end of 1988 it was transmitting twenty-one hours a week.

   1991, Richard Felix Staar, Foreign Policies of the Soviet Union, page 91

   The method of writing Farsi is logical, although reading can be trickier, as one has to guess at the unwritten consonants of unfamiliar words.

   1999, Maria O'Shea, Culture shock! Iran, page 75

   For instance, in Farsi pošt means 'back' (noun) as in pošt=am dard mikonad 'my back hurts' […]

   2009, Vit Bubenik, "The rise and development of the possessive construction in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian", page 97 in Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305

   Synonyms: Persian

2. informalproscribedIranian Persian, as opposed to Dari (Afghan Persian) and Tajik (Tajik Persian).
3. Synonym of Hijra Farsi

   Synonyms: Hijra Farsi, Persian

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1. proscribedPersian