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iran the warriour :
There's lots of other words too. ♥️🇮🇷 🇮🇹
2025-09-16 08:26:35
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Giammarco D'Addabbo :
as an Italian this is so cool
2025-09-16 14:39:27
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Mehrdad :
also "nicht" in German is equal to "nist" in Persian meaning "is not"
2025-09-16 06:55:38
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mauriziodebari :
Unrelated but the way you pronounced “chi è?” sounded native lol
2025-09-16 17:51:57
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Seyf :
So an italian opera gets aura for speaking persian, but when iii win a 30v1 i get negative 1000 aura? Wow, i see how it is
2025-09-16 09:53:26
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christina 🤍 :
As an Italian who is in Iran right now, I was baffled by how many words we have in common and by how many times I’ve said: “wait wait, what did you just say?? That sounds just like italian!”
2025-09-17 20:23:34
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bFrank :
I'm always astonished about the Indo-European roots transferring on and on in language and culture, in states that are now completely diatanced
2025-09-16 14:43:13
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Orthoskier :
In the isfahani dialect of Farsi we say “ki est” 😂
2025-09-16 06:54:07
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Gita Farid :
I was watching an Iranian film at the Iranian Film Festival in Korea (Where is the Friend's House) and the teacher asks the child in Farsi "How many times have I asked you to do your homework?" and the child says "Seh Ba'r" in Farsi. A nervous titter ripples thru the cinema. zin Korean it's "Se Ba'hn" meaning the same thing!
2025-09-16 05:10:03
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Manuel Zgouros :
A Persian lady asked next to me what car is it and I thought she’s speaking Romanian cause she used the same intonation and words “ce mashina é?”. (it.- Que machina é)I asked her and she has no clue it’s the same intonation both languages
2025-09-17 00:07:52
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Nima 💚🤍❤️ :
From Middle Persian ‘ki est’.
2025-09-16 09:48:34
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Ari :
Persians and Italians are the coolest people who have the coolest ancient and medieval history. They left a great legacy of literature, culture, and language.
2025-09-16 18:13:31
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Tahirr and 1419 others :
Surprising amount of Persian words are similar to other Indo European languages. There’s a long list of cognates
2025-09-16 03:08:37
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Londyn 🪬 :
It's "qui est" (silent t) in French which translates to "who is" but properly spoken, is "qui est-ce". We're all related.
2025-09-17 05:51:39
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Francesco Deiana :
i fucking love etymology.
2025-09-17 08:22:40
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思翰 :
love this type of stuff shoutout cognates
2025-09-16 02:35:41
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Betta Cuntrariusa :
Io che sono un’intellettuale pensavo più alla risposta alla domanda “chi è?”
2025-09-16 19:53:11
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Anon :
etymology is the best ology 🥰
2025-09-16 13:51:54
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ms :
In Hindi it’s kon he
2025-09-16 03:51:34
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The Word Cartographer :
One note: I’ve heard several versions of this story over the years, some saying before/after the revolution, the title, where and when etc, and I couldn’t narrow it down for certain and it might be apocryphal. This video is more about the etymology itself
2025-09-16 10:11:35
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Melody Mohebbi :
As an Persian I had no idea and learning something always
2025-09-16 16:07:54
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pipikakus :
ahahaah wow that's fascinating
2025-09-16 12:59:10
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nope :
Search for “Ehi lascia entrare Ascanio” song, and see the similarities
2025-09-16 21:35:55
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M. Marmalade :
Kiye means who is it but if we want to say who are you, it's going to be, Ki Hasti?
2025-09-16 07:08:45
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Bojan :
In Serbian, you say "ko je to"
2025-11-01 15:55:36
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