Dari
[ˈdɑːri]Meaning
English dari, the variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan
Background Story
A contributor's submission records Dari as a masculine given name in Russian and a feminine given name in Filipino. The English word was borrowed from Classical Persian دَرِی (darī, "Persian (language); courtly"), probably from دَرْبَار (darbār, "royal court"), and was adopted by the government of Afghanistan in 1964 as the official name of the varieties of Persian spoken there. The Catalan form dari is a separate borrowing from Latin Dārius.
Temperament
Variations
Darya, Dario
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