At that time the Persian empire comprised 44% of the world’s population. This was carried out by the Muslim Rashidun Caliphate from 633 to 656 AD. The Persian language and culture preceded the invasion of Islam by force. Some of them, such as " paradise", date to cultural contacts between the Persian people and the ancient Greeks or Romans and through Greek and Latin found their way to English. ![]() Many words of Persian origin have made their way into the English language through different, often circuitous, routes. This article will be concerned with loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, from one or more intermediary languages. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used - notably fa for Persian. This article or section should specify the language of its non-English content, using for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.
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