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Every Iranian word

Words players have found whose deepest named ancestor belongs to the Iranian family. A family is a group of languages, so this is wider than any single one of them.

Showing 101 to 116 of 116.

  • SYRAHnounPersian33 findersA dark-skinned variety of grape, used to produce red wines.
  • TABORnounPersian43 findersA small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
  • TALCnounPersian69 findersOriginally a large range of transparent or glistening foliated minerals. Examples include mica, selenite and the hydrated magnesium silicate that the term talc generally has referr
  • TAMBOURnounPersian63 findersA small shallow drum. A drummer.
  • TAMBURAnounPersian2 findersA type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world.
  • TANDOORnounPersian17 findersA cylindrical clay oven used in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent to make flat bread or to cook meat.
  • TANDOORIadjectivePersian25 findersCooked in a tandoor.
  • TOMANnounPersian2 findersA division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.
  • TULIPnounPersian47 findersA type of flowering plant, genus Tulipa.
  • TURBANnounPersian13 findersA man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
  • VEENAnounPersian5 findersA plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
  • YAARnounPersian3 findersA friend, pal, or buddy.
  • ZAMINDARnounPersian3 findersAn Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.
  • ZEDOARYnounPersian8 findersCurcuma zedoaria, a perennial herb native to India and Indonesia.
  • ZERDAnounPersian2 findersThe fennec (Vulpes zerda).
  • ZIRCONnounPersian36 findersA mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.

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