Judeo-Persian, the Glossary
Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet).[1]
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57 relations: Abbas II of Persia, Abbas the Great, Achaemenid Empire, Afghanistan, Ahasuerus, Aufruf, Azerbaijan, Azharot, Book of Daniel, Book of Exodus, Book of Judges, Borujerd, Bukhara, Bukharan Jews, Cairo Geniza, Dagestan, Esther, Ezāfe, Hamadan, Hebrew alphabet, Indo-Iranian languages, Iran, Iranian languages, Isfahan, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish languages, Judeo-Iranian languages, Judeo-Tat, Judeo-Urdu, Kashan, Kerman, Midrash, Moses, Muhammad in Islam, Persian Jews, Persian language, Pirkei Avot, Potiphar's wife, Russia, Safi of Persia, Samarkand, Satan, Shahin Shirazi, Shahnameh, Shavuot, Shimon Hakham, Shiraz, Sufism, Tajikistan, ... Expand index (7 more) »
- Endangered Iranian languages
- Endangered languages of Iran
- Jews and Judaism in Persia and Iran
- Judeo-Persian languages
- Languages attested from the 8th century
- Languages of Israel
- Persian dialects and varieties
Abbas II of Persia
Abbas II (born Soltan Mohammad Mirza; 30 August 1632 – 26 October 1666) was the seventh Shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1642 to 1666.
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Abbas the Great
Abbas I (translit; 27 January 1571 – 19 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (translit), was the fifth shah of Safavid Iran from 1588 to 1629.
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Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Ahasuerus
Ahasuerus (commonly Achashverosh; Asouḗros, in the Septuagint; Assuerus in the Vulgate) is a name applied in the Hebrew Bible to three rulers of Ancient Persia and to a Babylonian official (or Median king) first appearing in the Tanakh in the Book of Esther and later in the Christian Book of Tobit.
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Aufruf
Aufruf (Yiddish: אויפרוף ofrif, oyfruf, ufruf/ifrif or אויפרופן ofrifn), which in Yiddish means "calling up," is the Jewish custom of a groom being called up in the synagogue for an aliyah, the recitation of a blessing over the Torah.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.
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Azharot
Azharot (אזהרות, "exhortations") are didactic liturgical poems on, or versifications of, the 613 commandments in rabbinical enumeration.
Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting.
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Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus (from translit; שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible.
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Book of Judges
The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim; Κριτές; Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Borujerd
Borujerd (بروجرد) is a city in the Central District of Borujerd County, Lorestan province in western Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
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Bukhara
Bukhara (Uzbek; بخارا) is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents.
Bukharan Jews
Bukharan Jews (Bukharian: יהודיאני בוכארא/яҳудиёни Бухоро, Yahudiyoni Bukhoro; יְהוּדֵי־בּוּכָרָה, Yehudey Bukhara), in modern times called Bukharian Jews (Bukharian: יהודי בוכרה/яҳудиёни бухорӣ, Yahudiyoni Bukhorī; יְהוּדִים־בּוּכָרִים, Yehudim Bukharim), are the Mizrahi Jewish sub-group of Central Asia that historically spoke Bukharian, a Judeo-Persian dialect of the Tajik language, in turn a variety of the Persian language.
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Cairo Geniza
The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat or Old Cairo, Egypt.
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Dagestan
Dagestan (Дагестан), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea.
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Esther
Esther, originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
Ezāfe
Ezāfe (lit) is a grammatical particle found in some Iranian languages, as well as Persian-influenced languages such as Ottoman Turkish and Hindi-Urdu, that links two words together. In the Persian language, it consists of the unstressed short vowel -e or -i (-ye or -yi after vowels) between the words it connects and often approximately corresponds in usage to the English preposition of.
Hamadan
Hamedan (همدان) is a city in western Iran.
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
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Indo-Iranian languages
The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest and southeasternmost extant branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Iranian languages
The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau.
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Isfahan
Isfahan or Esfahan (اصفهان) is a major city in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan province, Iran.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
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Jewish languages
Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora.
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Judeo-Iranian languages
The Judeo-Iranian languages (or dialects) are a number of related Jewish variants of Iranian languages spoken throughout the formerly extensive realm of the Persian Empire. Judeo-Persian and Judeo-Iranian languages are Endangered Iranian languages, Jews and Judaism in Persia and Iran and Judeo-Persian languages.
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Judeo-Tat
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (Cuhuri, Жугьури, ז׳אוּהאוּראִ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect of the Tat language historically spoken by the Mountain Jews, primarily in Azerbaijan, Dagestan, and today in Israel. Judeo-Persian and Judeo-Tat are Endangered Iranian languages, Judeo-Persian languages and Persian dialects and varieties.
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Judeo-Urdu
Judeo-Urdu (یہود اردو|translit.
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Kashan
Kashan (کاشان) is a city in the Central District of Kashan County, in the northern part of Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Kerman
Kerman (كرمان) is a city in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
Midrash
Midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; מִדְרָשִׁים or midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.
Moses
Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition.
Muhammad in Islam
In Islam, Muḥammad (مُحَمَّد) is venerated as the Seal of the Prophets and earthly manifestation of primordial divine light (Nūr), who transmitted the eternal word of God (Qur'ān) from the angel Gabriel (Jabrāʾīl) to humans and jinn.
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Persian Jews
Persian Jews or Iranian Jews (یهودیان ایرانی; יהודים פרסים) constitute one of the oldest communities of the Jewish diaspora. Judeo-Persian and Persian Jews are Jews and Judaism in Persia and Iran.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Pirkei Avot
Pirkei Avot (Chapters of the fathers; also transliterated as Pirqei Avoth or Pirkei Avos or Pirke Aboth), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition.
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Potiphar's wife
Potiphar's wife is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Safi of Persia
Sam Mirza (ساممیرزا) (161112 May 1642), known by his dynastic name of Shah Safi (شاه صفی), was the sixth shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1629 to 1642.
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Samarkand
Samarkand or Samarqand (Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia.
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Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood.
Shahin Shirazi
Shāhin-i Shirāzi (شاهین شیرازی, born in Shiraz in the Ilkhanate, Iran) was a Persian Jewish poet in the 14th century.
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Shahnameh
The Shahnameh (lit), also transliterated Shahnama, is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.
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Shavuot
Shavuot (from Weeks), or Shvues (in some Ashkenazi usage), is a Jewish holiday, one of the biblically ordained Three Pilgrimage Festivals.
Shimon Hakham
Rabbi Shimon Hakham (שמעון חכם; 1843, Bukhara- 1910, Jerusalem) was a Bukharan rabbi residing in Jerusalem who promoted literacy by translating Hebrew religious books into Bukhori.
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Shiraz
Shiraz (شیراز) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars and Persis.
Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
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Tisha B'Av
Tisha B'Av (תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב) is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.
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Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.
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Western Iranian languages
The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median.
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Woman with seven sons
The woman with seven sons was a Jewish martyr described in 2 Maccabees 7.
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Yazd
Yazd (یزد) is a city in the Central District of Yazd County, Yazd province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
Yusuf
Yusuf (يوسف) is a male name meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).
1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees,translit also known as the First Book of Maccabees, First Maccabees, and abbreviated as 1 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which details the history of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire as well as the founding and earliest history of the independent Hasmonean kingdom.
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See also
Endangered Iranian languages
- Abduyi dialect
- Dialects of Fars
- Gorani language
- Ishkashimi language
- Judeo-Esfahani
- Judeo-Hamedani–Borujerdi
- Judeo-Iranian languages
- Judeo-Persian
- Judeo-Shirazi
- Judeo-Tat
- Kho'ini dialect
- Koroshi dialect
- Korouni dialect
- Kuhmareyi language
- Munji language
- Pamir languages
- Sarikoli language
- Shughni language
- Tat language (Caucasus)
- Wakhi language
- Yazghulami language
- Yidgha language
Endangered languages of Iran
- Gorani language
- Harzandi dialect
- Judeo-Persian
- Kho'ini dialect
- Neo-Mandaic
- Tati language (Iran)
- Tatoid dialects
- Zargari Romani
Jews and Judaism in Persia and Iran
- Alliance School, Hamadan
- Alliance School, Kermanshah
- Alliance School, Tehran
- Antisemitism in Iran
- Cyrus School, Tehran
- Dardasht (Isfahan)
- History of the Jews in Iran
- Iran–Israel relations
- Iranian Jews
- Jews of Iran (film)
- Judeo-Hamedani–Borujerdi
- Judeo-Iranian languages
- Judeo-Persian
- Judeo-Persian languages
- List of chief rabbis of Iran
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel
- Mountain Jews
- Persian Jewish cuisine
- Persian Jews
- Shalom (newspaper)
- Tehran Jewish Committee
- Tomb of Daniel
- Tomb of Esther and Mordechai
- World Congress of Mountain Jews
Judeo-Persian languages
Languages attested from the 8th century
- Cham language
- Early Middle Japanese
- Frisian languages
- Japanese language
- Judaeo-Aragonese
- Judeo-Persian
- Middle Tamil
- New Persian
- Old French
- Old Frisian
- Old High German
- Old Irish
- Old Japanese
- Old Norse
- Old Occitan
- Old Turkic
- Southwestern Brittonic languages
- Tiberian Hebrew
Languages of Israel
- Arabic
- Arabic language
- Arabic language in Israel
- Domari language
- Hebrew language
- Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
- Israeli Sign Language
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Barzani
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho
- Judaeo-Spanish
- Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
- Judeo-Moroccan Arabic
- Judeo-Persian
- Judeo-Syrian Arabic
- Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
- Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
- Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
- Kurdish language
- Languages of Israel
- Mashriqi Arabic
- Modern Hebrew
- Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic
- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
- Northwest Arabian Arabic
- Palestinian Arabic
- Russian language in Israel
- South Levantine Arabic
- Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
- Vlax Romani language
- Western Aramaic languages
- Yemenite Hebrew
- Yevanic language
- Yiddish
Persian dialects and varieties
- Basseri dialect
- Dehwari language
- Dezfuli dialect
- Hazaragi dialect
- Iranian Persian
- Judeo-Esfahani
- Judeo-Persian
- Judeo-Persian languages
- Judeo-Shirazi
- Judeo-Tat
- Khorasani dialect
- Kuwaiti Persian
- Madaklashti dialect
- Shushtari dialect
- Sistani dialect
- Standard Persian
- Tajik language
- Tat language (Caucasus)
- Tehrani accent
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Persian
Also known as Dzhidi, Dzhidi dialect, Dzhidi language, ISO 639:jpr, Judaeo-Persian, Judaeo-Persian language, Judaeo-Persian literature, Judeo-Persian (), Judeo-Persian language, Judæo Persian, Latorayi.
, Tisha B'Av, Uzbekistan, Western Iranian languages, Woman with seven sons, Yazd, Yusuf, 1 Maccabees.