Some of them, such as "paradise", date to cultural contacts between the Persians 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. However, 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. Examples of these include: English (Mother) and Persian (Mādar), English (Father) and Persian (Padar), English (Daughter) and Persian (Dokhtar), English (jungle) and Persian (jangal), English (Brother) and Persian (Barādar) and English (Name) and Persian (Nām). As Indo-European languages, English and Persian have many words of common Proto-Indo-European origin, and many of these words often have similar forms.
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