According to wikipedia.org, false friends are words in different languages that look or sound similar, but differ significantly in meaning.
It was a pleasant surprise that false friends exist between Arabic and Persian.
I have noticed the Persian word for Revolution being انقلاب.
In Arabic, it means "coup d'etat".
Here are other examples from the top of my head like:
جھاز (Persian = "ship"; Arabic = "device/apparatus")
زیارت (Persian = "pilgrimage"; Arabic = "visit") Arabic orthography: زيارة
زائر (Persian = "pilgrim"; Arabic = "visitor")
کثیف (Persian = "dirty"; Arabic = "thick/dense")
کثافت (Persian = "dirtiness"; Arabic = "thickness/density")Arabic orthography: كثافة
مکتب (Persian = "school"; Arabic = "office")
خشم(Persian = "anger"; Arabic = "nose")
تصویر (Persian = "picture"; Arabic = "photography/filming/drawing")
خزانه(Persian = "treasure"; Arabic = "cupboard/closet")Arabic orthography: خزانة
I feel that there are more such examples between Arabic and Persian.
Could anyone kindly add more false friends to this list that might exist or is there is already such a list in existence that one could refer to?
شکراً
و
!متشكرم
It was a pleasant surprise that false friends exist between Arabic and Persian.
I have noticed the Persian word for Revolution being انقلاب.
In Arabic, it means "coup d'etat".
Here are other examples from the top of my head like:
جھاز (Persian = "ship"; Arabic = "device/apparatus")
زیارت (Persian = "pilgrimage"; Arabic = "visit") Arabic orthography: زيارة
زائر (Persian = "pilgrim"; Arabic = "visitor")
کثیف (Persian = "dirty"; Arabic = "thick/dense")
کثافت (Persian = "dirtiness"; Arabic = "thickness/density")Arabic orthography: كثافة
مکتب (Persian = "school"; Arabic = "office")
خشم(Persian = "anger"; Arabic = "nose")
تصویر (Persian = "picture"; Arabic = "photography/filming/drawing")
خزانه(Persian = "treasure"; Arabic = "cupboard/closet")Arabic orthography: خزانة
I feel that there are more such examples between Arabic and Persian.
Could anyone kindly add more false friends to this list that might exist or is there is already such a list in existence that one could refer to?
شکراً
و
!متشكرم