Role of Arabic Language in Transferring Persian Words into European Languages

The expansion of Persian words in European languages is an important topic of discussion in the field of etymology which can be studied from different aspects including semantic changes, phonetic changes, transfer process, and the role of intermediary languages. Since, most of these words have been transferred indirectly, the study of the role and influence of the intermediary languages in this process seems important. The study of these languages indicates that the role of Arabic language is more outstanding, in a way, in many cases the most important European dictionaries in finding the root of these Arabicized Persian words have made mistakes and introduced them as Arabic words. This paper aims at studying some of the Persian words in European languages which have been transferred with the immediate intermediary of Arabic language. In this part, it has been tried to study this process in an analytic and descriptive way.