dari
dari Lexical Profile
dari Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The standard variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan, where it serves as one of the two official national languages alongside Pashto.
"She worked as a diplomatic interpreter because she was fluent in both Dari and Pashto."
A Northwestern Iranian dialect spoken by Zoroastrian communities in the cities of Yazd and Kerman in central Iran.
"Linguists traveled to central Iran to document the endangered Zoroastrian Dari dialect."
A variety of grain-producing sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) cultivated in warm regions of Africa and Asia for food and animal fodder; also, the small, rounded grain of this plant.
"Farmers in the arid valley planted dari because the hardy cereal crop withstands prolonged drought."
• adjective
Relating to or written in the Dari language or its speakers in Afghanistan.
"The university library recently acquired a collection of classical Dari poetry manuscripts."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Persian 'darī' ('of the royal court'), derived from 'dar' ('door, gate, royal court'), referring to the literary register of New Persian used in the royal courts of Greater Khorasan. The botanical sense for sorghum grain is a variant of 'durra', borrowed from Arabic 'dhura'.
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