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Abstract

After hearing the phrase: “Deutsch Sprache, schwere Sprache.”^[1], Iranians and Afghans have both heard from their German language teachers with a consolidating tone that: “But if you get to learn it, then you can easily learn four or five other languages: Dutch, Finish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish.” They probably see the same relatedness between their mother tongue and the other branch of Persian language. At least in the last one-hundred years, the different political and geo- climatic situations, different educational systems, dissimilar ethnicities of the two nations, distant neighboring countries of these two lands have caused their languages to undergo nonidentical evolutions, despite the fact that the two languages of Persian and Dari are branches of a single tree and the people have inherited it from the same root. Dari words seem like a blend of French, English, Arabic, Indian, Russian and of course some comic/surprising words to Persian ears. This article aims to investigate into Dari words from the perspective of their meaning and signification in Persian and for Persian speakers. It chooses one index of the dictionary of Persian-Dari, Dari-Persian by Varezh Parsadanian and tries accordingly to present a statistical view of how these words mean in Persian. In a world ladies talk about crocheting Afghan shawls on YouTube and some gentlemen trade Persian and Afghan carpets, it is nice to have a comparative look at the languages of the two countries‎.