To: Aslam Rasoolpuri,
The list below shows names of 100 items in English and Farsi. This
list is from URL:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/languagesofla/farsi/swadesh-f.htm
For comparison purposes, I added Turkish words in the third column.
They are words having the meaning as given in the first column in
English or otherwise explained.
There seems to be kinship between as much as 50% of the Farsi and Turkish
words. It seems that in Farsi, to make a verb, Turkish word "eden"
meaning "one that makes" is added to a "root" word as a suffix. This
makes verbs related to Turkish. I have marked the related words with
(x) in the list.
# English Farsi Turkish
1 I man men (x)
2 you to sen
3 we m?iz
4 this in bu
5 that ?o, an (x)
6 who ki kim (x)
7 what c(i ne, neki, neci
8 not na 'ma'/'me' negativity suffix (x)
9 all hame 'hamI' (x), hepsi, herkes
10 many zi? c(andin 'ziyada' (x)
11 one yek Bir, 'tek' (x), t/y change
12 two do iki
13 big bozorg 'b?(x), z/y change
14 long boland uzun
15 small kuc(ek 'k?(x)
16 woman zan 'zenne' (x)
17 man mard 'merd' "brave man", er "man" (x)
18 person ens?'insan' (x), adam, er
19 fish m? balik
20 bird parande kush
21 dog sag it, k?
22 louse sepas bit
23 tree deraxt 'direkti' (aga?) "it is wooden post" (x)
24 seed d?, toxm 'tane', 'dane', 'tohum' (x)
25 leaf barg "yaprag' ("barg" can be part of Tr. "yaprag")
26 root rise k?r> 27 bark pust-e deraxt 'direk ?(aga?st?c kabugu)
"bark of tree" (x)
28 skin pust 'post' (x), deri
29 flesh gust et
30 blood xun 'kan' (x)
31 bone ostox?s?kemik, kancutu (kan yapar)
"ostoxan" can be viewed as an anagram of Tr.
expression "kancutu" meaning "it is blood
maker" which bones do.
32 grease / oil roqan, c(arbi yag
33 egg toxm "yumurta" (tohum). "Egg" is a seed,
so is Tr. "tohum" (x)
34 horn s?boynuz
35 tail dom kuyruk
36 feather par t? 37 hair mu mu, kIl, sa?r> 38 head sar bash, tepe, kafa, ser (x)
39 ear gus kulak
40 eye c(esm g??m (x)
41 nose dam?, bini burun
42 mouth dahan agiz, aguz
("dahan" is an anagram of Tr. expression
"de-han" (de evi) meaning "house of
speech" (x) which "mouth" is.
43 tooth dand?dish
44 tongue zab?dil
45 claw panje, c(ang?pen? tirnak, ?gel (x)
46 foot p?yak, taban, basan
47 knee z? diz
48 hand dast 'dest' (x), el
49 belly sekam karin, 'bel'
50 neck gardan 'gerdan' (x)
51 breast(s) pest?meme
52 heart qalb kalb (x), ?r> 53 liver jegar 'ciger' (x)
54 to drink nusidan 'su yudan" "he who drinks water" (x)
55 to eat xordan yemek
56 to bite gazidan 'agiz eden' (isiran, ) "he who eats" (x)
57 to see didan 'dide eden' (g?den) "he who eyes" (x)
58 to hear senidan 'ishiden' (isiden) "he who hears" (x)
59 to know d?stan 'ganish-eden' "he who understands" (x)
60 to sleep x?dan 'yukhu-eden' (uyuyan) "he who
sleeps" (x)
61 to die mordan 'mor-eden' (mor-olan) "he who becomes purple".
"purple" Turkish "mor" is also the color of "dead" (x)
62 to kill kostan 'kes-eten/eden' "he who cuts" (x)
63 to swim sen?ardan y?br> 64 to fly paridan u?k
65 to walk r?raftan 'y?den' "he who walks" (x)
66 to come ?dan gelmek
67 to lie (down) x?dan, 'yatiban' (yatip) "one who is lying" (x)
der?kesidan
68 to sit nesastan 'sustayan' (susta duran) "he who sits up" (x)
69 to stand ist?n, 'dik durmak', 'ayakta durmak'
p?odan "bas-eden" (ayagininin ? basan)
"he who steps on his feet" (x)
71 to say goftan "g?(g?den) "spoken words, speech",
"G?uot; must be related to Tr. expression
"tegif"/"deyip" meaning "what one says" (x)
72 sun ?? xorsid 'kor+ishidi' "it is fire + light" (x), g?br> 73 moon m?'ma' (x), "ay"
74 star setare 'IShITIR' "it is light" (x)
75 water ?su
76 rain b?n 'veren' (bereket) "it gives", "it is
fertility" (x)
77 stone sang 'seng' (x), tash, dash
78 sand m? kum
79 earth zamin 'zemin' (x), yer, kara, kaya
80 cloud abr bulut
81 smoke dud duman, sis
82 fire ?s 'atesh', 'atash', 'od' (x)
83 ash x?star k? 84 burn suxtegi, suzes 'yaktik' "we burned it"
85 path j?, rah yol
86 mountain kuh dag, ta, tau
87 red qermez, sorx 'girmizi' / 'kirmizi' (x)
88 green sabz yeshil, yashil
89 yellow zard 'sarIdI' (x) "that which is yellow", 'sarI'
90 white sefid 'safdi (x) "it is pure", akdi
91 black si?'siyah' (x), kara
92 night sab gece
93 hot, warm garm 'od/ot' (x)
94 cold sard 'sert-hava' "bittercold" (x), soguk
95 full por dolu
96 new t?h 'taze' (x)
97 good xub iyi, eyu
98 round gerd yuvarlak
99 dry xosk kuru
100 name n? esm ad, 'nam', 'isim' (x)
Best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya
04/12/2004
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