Examples of Farsi in a Sentence
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Her background was part of the draw for 8200, Israel’s equivalent of the National Security Agency: Yashar understood Farsi and Iranian culture, both useful for gathering intelligence on her homeland.
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Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Farahani speaks Farsi, French, Spanish and English and frequently travels between Iran and Venezuela.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
Sitting shoulder to shoulder, muttering curses in Farsi and Pashto, our engineers had each drunk six cups of tea in less than ten minutes, hoarding an entire thermos for themselves.
—Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Police said the hostage taker spoke a mixture of Farsi and English.
—Kate Brady, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
In fact, Predatory Sparrow, which typically refers to itself in public statements by the Farsi translation of its name, Gonjeshke Darande, has been tightly focused on Iran for years, long before Israel's war with Hamas further raised tensions between the two countries.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
The man spoke over his shoulder, presumably in Farsi, and turned back to us.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
But there’s also a need for Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Somali and Persian (Farsi and Dari) speakers at certain vote center locations.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
Conceived amid the bombs in Kabul, I was born and raised until age 7 in Fremont, and taught that my mother tongue, Farsi, was a foreign language.
—Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Farahani speaks Farsi, French, Spanish and English and frequently travels between Iran and Venezuela.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
Sitting shoulder to shoulder, muttering curses in Farsi and Pashto, our engineers had each drunk six cups of tea in less than ten minutes, hoarding an entire thermos for themselves.
—Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Police said the hostage taker spoke a mixture of Farsi and English.
—Kate Brady, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
In fact, Predatory Sparrow, which typically refers to itself in public statements by the Farsi translation of its name, Gonjeshke Darande, has been tightly focused on Iran for years, long before Israel's war with Hamas further raised tensions between the two countries.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
The man spoke over his shoulder, presumably in Farsi, and turned back to us.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
But there’s also a need for Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Somali and Persian (Farsi and Dari) speakers at certain vote center locations.
—The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
Conceived amid the bombs in Kabul, I was born and raised until age 7 in Fremont, and taught that my mother tongue, Farsi, was a foreign language.
—Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
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“Farsi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Farsi. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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Farsi
noun
Far·si
ˈfär-sē 
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