Similarities Between Romanian and Persian

Romanian and Persian are both Indo-European languages, a family of many related languages and dialects. All Indo-European languages are descendants of a prehistoric language, reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European. In this video, Aryana (Persian speaker from Iran) and Darius (Romanian speaker from Romania) demonstrate some of the commonalities between the two languages with a list of words and sentences. The words in this video consist of words having a common Proto-Indo-European root, as well as some words which are later borrowings.
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The Persian language (Farsi) is an ancient language which has had a huge amount of impact on other languages and cultures, mainly in the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia. Persian is classified as one of the Western Iranian languages, Persian holds official status is Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and spoken by a significant population of Uzbekistan who are native Persian speakers. Persian has strongly influenced many different languages, including numerous Turkic languages, as well as well as Armenian, Georgian, and many languages in the Indian subcontinent. Persian has a long history of literature and it was notable for being the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing. The Persian language has also influenced the Arabic language, although the impact of Arabic on Persian has been higher. But the influence of Persian in the Muslim world has been strong since the early days of Islam. It was even established as a court tradition instead of Arabic under many ruling Muslim dynasties.
Romanian (limba română) is a Balkan Romance language within the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. It is spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova where it is the official language, in addition to being one of the official languages of the European Union. Having evolved from different Vulgar Latin dialects, Romanian is a part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages. Within the group, the language is called Daco-Romanian in order to distinguish it from Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.

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[@hemantjagtap5716]

Thank you

[@ambaw1004]

Wow brother this is amazing

[@albinh.3149]

Do Albanian and greek!

[@santosh-un2bj]

Very nice sir, there are some words being used in Indian languages as well. Kindly do videos with more Indian languages.

[@nmvwilliams]

Malayalam is a really cool language if you can find the opportunity to feature it.

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

آفرین! بسیار شگفت انگیز و دلچسب Respect and love for Romanian friends from Iran

[@doce7678]

Respect and love for Iran friends from Romania!💙💛❤️

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

@@doce7678 ❤️❤️

[@vikvik9573]

Kheyli mamnoon azizam!!!❤️

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

@@vikvik9573 Te iubim ❤️

[@vikvik9573]

Fazraz Farzam DOOSET DARAM AZIZAM!!❤️

[@domnulvlad8596]

Peace and greetings from Romania to Persia !

[@GecziEfraim]

You do realize its Iran now, right?

[@bah07000]

Multumim frumos !

[@brazy5006]

@@GecziEfraim he wanted to stay on the subject..

[@arylion5417]

Efry Geczi So?

[@CataP9]

Efry Geczi Indeed, Iran, but all countries way around Iran WERE AS ONE...

[@professorx1935]

I had a chance to meet a Persian we became best friends. Incredible people. I am amazed how open and happy people Persians are. Super respect to the Persian people from a Romanian. Incredible people.

[@neel6978]

Thank you dear. Love and respect from iran to romania

[@ryansmith8345]

Love & respect to your beautiful people in Romania from Iran :)))

[@sepidehzandi139]

This is awesome! Love Romania from Iran ❤

[@vikvik9573]

Kheyli mamnoon!!!❤️❤️

[@sorenghaedi8270]

@@vikvik9573 omg i evry time see your beautyfull words thanks from Iran❤

[@vikvik9573]

Soren Ghaedi ❤️❤️

[@useresu301]

yeah, too bad Iran has fallen back into a religious dark age

[@Maya-ii1hl]

Neighbor ❤️❤️❤️🌷🌷🌷🌷I’m 🇦🇲

[@user-ve9mn8jb1h]

Thank you for connecting our nations. Greetings and much love from Romania, sisters and brothers! 🇷🇴❤️

[@neel6978]

Love from iran 💙💙💙

[@Unknown_person787]

I didn't know that my native language has lots of similarities to Romanian. To be honest I'm very happy 😃😊😃. My regards to all my Romanian sisters and brothers from Tajikistan

[@razvanpop5826]

Love from Romania! 🇹🇩🇮🇷

[@mehrankhoshnevisan]

Salutations from Iran☺🙂

[@aliya2440]

Salutare de la IRAN pt ROMANIA

[@sorin9631]

@@aliya2440 Din !

[@razvanpop5826]

@@aliya2440 سلام بر رومانی

[@princeofpersia6229]

❤️🇮🇷🇷🇴

[@CataP9]

With love from Romania to whole Persia ! ♥️

[@rinorferati9907]

I am albanian and i understanded alot of words this is amazing chi word is also in albanian but in a dialect of albanian 🇦🇱❤️🇮🇷❤️🇷🇴

[@joao13soares]

Fun fact: I had both a Romanian and a Persian friends (girls) in my high school class and, although they were in Portugal since 5 or 6 years old, they found it easy to learn our language. Maybe because of its similarities, as shown in this video. Just out of curiosity, as a Portuguese, here's my best try at identifying the words: -> (1:54) "tu" - easily identified as "tu" in Portuguese; -> (2:51) "mort" - easily identified as "morte" in Pt; -> (3:56) "khers" - I imediately related it to the English "bears", but nothing in Pt. Only after he said the Romanian "urs" I confirmed it to be correct, because we say "urso" in Pt; -> (5:30) "nouă" - at first I thought it would be "não", which means "no" in Portuguese and the pronunciation is so similar. But "nine" makes sense as well, because we say it like "nove" in Pt. (6:10) By the way, we say "novo" for "new"; -> (7:01) "chibrit" - I imagined it being "cabrito" which means "lamb" in Pt... wasn't the correct answer at all hahaha; -> (7:27) "do" - I couldn't identify it in the sentence as meaning "two", but it is actually similar to Pt because we say it like "dois"; -> (9:05) "perdea" - I thought it was "perder" which means "to lose" in Pt. On the other hand, "frumoasă" was actually easy to relate with "formosa" in Pt, which also means "beautiful"; The remaining words, I couldn't guess at all... But thank you for the video as always!!

[@joao13soares]

@VFM #7634 She is very beautiful. But you mean his sentence at 9:05, right? What is your native language then? Persian?

[@joao13soares]

@VFM #7634 Oh okay, that's nice, do you know how to speak any?

[@joao13soares]

@VFM #7634 Wow that's impressive! Even if just the basics. I'm starting German but kinda need a method instead of just using Duolingo hahaha

[@joao13soares]

@VFM #7634 I've already been there hahaha I know what you mean, it really gives me nerves haha

[@mehrdad5767]

@@joao13soares its in persian language Tu do ta pardeh ziba dari

[@aidabehnam6879]

Omg thaaaaaaaaank youuu ,i love i❤❤❤❤ ,I'm persian and my boyfriend is Romanian and it's so cute when at least we can use these words except of english in daily life conversations.

[@Mokh7777]

You will find that you have a lot more in common considering Romania was inhabited by Iranian Scythians and was even called Scythia Minor.

[@ramboramba4171]

Les Roumains sont des frères avec les perses,les peuples Aryans,normal que leurs langues se ressemble, dans la langue sanscrit existent 2000 mots parfaitement, pareils, salutations a mes frères et sœurs iraniennes, que dieu vous bénisse. NB.on nu parle de la civilisation iranienne vieille de 6000 ans,je vous dit, vieille de 15000 ans, voire plus, je des preuves pour mes affirmations.

[@hdersoz]

As Ottoman art and literature were greatly influenced by Persian culture, it is inevitable that the Turkish language have a lot common words with Persian. The words in this video, Lale (tulip), nohut (Chickpeas), Kibrit (matches), çoban (shepperd) , perde (curtain) are all currently used in Turkish. Also, a city in Turkey has Persian name, NEVŞEHİR (meaning New City). Thanks Bahadır. It's fun to learn something from you.

[@mihaela5227]

Ya, in romanian perde is perdea, took from turkish language.

[@elinosra369]

The official language of Ottoman Court at the beginning was Persian

[@mihaela5227]

As a part of the Ottoman Empire , the romanian language has a lot of turkish words with Persian roots , as I see. What you have explained here is the same into romanian: lalea, naut, chibrit , cioban , perdea. And also a few.

[@aliya2440]

evet hakan bey IRAN ve TURKIEY cultur gonominynde bir birene cok yakin ve hatta din kelemasiler Irandaen gelmis mesela namaz arpcasi salat dir ve ya abdest arpcasi vudu dir

[@pizzaman6854]

Eli Nosra no it wasn't. It was Ottoman arabic, different dialect

[@vikvik9573]

LOVE FROM ROMANIA❤️ ZENDEH BAAD IRAN!❤️🇮🇷❤️

[@BahadorAlast]

Considering all the you have written about Iran over the years, you deserve to have honorary Iranian citizenship ❤️

[@vikvik9573]

Bahador Alast Thank you very much !!! I would be to honored to be IRANIAN !!!🙏🙏🙏

[@BahadorAlast]

@@vikvik9573 In our hearts you already are! :)

[@ghasemearash9415]

@@vikvik9573 pe bune te vad peste tot in comentarii la video-uri care au legatura cu iranu😘

[@vikvik9573]

OK chuku Ma urmaresti?🤗

[@arasht2435]

I knew some people from romania when I was in Italy they are very clever people

[@mihaitudose2217]

❤❤Thank you!Yes ,is true,we are very clever :D Foarte deștepți!Btw we like spghetti :) And mozzarella :) and also we love pizza!👌

[@iuliaf4402]

Not a very Smart coment from Azry 😂 but we thank you for your comment

[@TomaNeagu]

I don't think we are that clever, but we are used to hard life and we try to make better from every hard moment!

[@xolang]

prea bine. mulțumesc și salutări din Indonezia!

[@AloysioWisnu]

Indonesian here 😀 Hello! 😁

[@GabrielDipo]

belajar dimana broo

[@xolang]

@@GabrielDipo belajar pakai buku "teach yourself Romanian". lebih dari 20 tahun yll. sekarang sudah entah di mana itu buku. 😕

[@aliya2440]

Salutare de la IRAN pt ROMANIA♥♥♥

[@mariusgeorgian5585]

Pace si respect

[@vikvik9573]

ازادی !!!🕊🕊

[@cristianpetricescu4828]

Dumnezeu sa-i binecuvanteze pe iranieni.Pace voua.

[@louies6914]

Despite all the negative publicity it gets on the mainstream media I love Iran and I'm impressed by their culture.Greetings from Romania!

[@tipsydog3]

Great people, horrendous government.

[@nibs1989]

Very cool, I grew up in Romania and married a Persian. So, I hear Farsi all the time from my wife. She is also learning Romanian. It is amazing to see the similarities. Some other great similarities like: „dușman” which is almost the same as „doșman.” Mașina is mașin... Maybe not that similar but interesting: Khabar and Romanian „Habar.” In a sentence we would say „habar n-am,” or, I have no clue. It comes from the Turkish „haber” which means „news.” But, I always thought it was similar to „Ce habar” in farsi. Hast = este... lots of great words and similarities! I couldn't tell, but it looked like Darius had some doogh in his glass.

[@topgears7775]

grammatically currect persian is ''Ast'' but in iranian farsi we say ''Hast'', in dari and tajik they say ''Ast''

Actually I guess a lot of these words are in Romanian because of the Ottoman Empire's effect and not from their Indo-European roots. Some of them like "habar" doesn't have Indo-European roots at all.

[@topgears7775]

@ yes agree, not all are from indo-europian root, habar comes from turkish habar which is originally an arabic word, in arabic its "khabar"

@@topgears7775 Even some of the Indo-european ones are probably are later loan words from the Ottoman Turkish.

[@dariushmilad3359]

Thank you, Bahador. I made a list that includes some cognates having a common Proto-Indo-European root. Persian: To (تو) Italian: Tu Spanish: Tú English: You(Thou) . . Persian: Javān (جوان) Italian: Giovane Spanish: Joven English: Young . . Persian: Nov (نو) Italian: Nuovo Spanish: Nuevo English: New . . Persian: Ast (است) Latin: Est French: Est Italian: È Spanish: Es English: It is . . Persian: Na (نه) Italian: No Spanish: No English: No . . Persian: Na … na (نه ... نه) Italian: Né ... né Spanish: Ni … ni English: Neither ... nor . . Persian: Če? (چه؟) Italian: Che? Spanish: Que? *Meaning: What? . . Persian: Māndan (ماندن) Latin: Manent Italian: Rimanere Spanish: Permanecer English: Remain . . Persian: Aknun (اکنون) Latin: Nunc German: Nun English: Now . . Persian: Ostoxān (استخوان) Italian: Osso Spanish: Hueso *Meaning: Bone . . Persian: Istādan (ایستادن) Italian: Stare Spanish: Estar English: Stand . . Persian: Bāzu (بازو) Italian: Braccio Spanish: Brazo *Meaning: Arm . . Persian: Pā (پا) Italian: Piede Spanish: Pie English: Foot . . Persian: Pāre (پاره) Italian: Parte Spanish: Parte English: Part . . Persian: Čand (چند) Italian: Quanto Spanish: Cuanto *Meaning: How much/many , ... . . Persian: Morde (مرده) Italian: Morto Spanish: Muerto *Meaning: Dead . . Persian: Amordād (امرداد) Italian: Immortale Spanish: Imortal English: Immortal . . Persian: Mordād (مرداد) Italian: Mortale Spanish: Mortal English: Mortal . . Persian: Lab (لب) Italian: Labbro Spanish: Labio English: Lip . . Persian: Dandān (دندان) Italian: Dente Spanish: Diente *Meaning: Tooth . . Persian: Do (دو) Italian: Due Spanish: Dos English: Two . . Persian: Šeš (شش) Italian: Sei Spanish: Seis English: Six . . Persian: Noh (نه) Italian: Nove Spanish: Nueve English : Nine . . Persian: Dah (ده) Italian: Dieci Spanish: Diez *Meaning: Ten . . Persian: Dahom (دهم) Italian: Decimo Spanish: Decimo *Meaning: Tenth . . Persian: Šast o do (شصت و دو) Italian: Sassantadue Spanish: Sesenta y dos English: Sixty-two . . Persian: Navad (نود) Italian: Novanta Spanish: Noventa English: Ninety . . Persian: Pedar o Madar (پدر و مادر) Italian: Padre e Madre Spanish: Padre y Madre English: Father and Mother . . Persian: Riše (ریشه) Italian: Radice Spanish: Raiz English: Root . . Persian: Sepehr (سپهر) Italian: Sfera Spanish: Esfera English: Sphere . . Persian: Setāre(ستاره) Italian: Stella Spanish: Estrella English: Star . . Persian: Ki (کی) Italian: Chi Spanish: Quien *Meaning: Who . . Persian: Nām (نام) Italian: Nome Spanish: Nombre English: Name . . Persian: Buse (بوسه) Italian: Baccio Spanish: Beso *Meaning: Kiss . . Persian: Mogh (مغ) Italian: Mago Spanish: Mago English: Magus (Zoroastrian Priest) . . Persian: Āmixtan (آمیختن) Italian: Mescolare Spanish: Mezclar English: Mix . . Persian: Panje ( پنجه، مشت) Italian: Pugno Spanish: Puño English: Punch . . Persian: Zānu (زانو) French: Genou Italian: Ginocchio English: Knee . . Persian: Māhice (ماهیچه) Italian: Muscolo Spanish: Músculo English: Muscle . . Persian: Galu (گلو) Italian: Gola English: Gullet . . Persian: Nāxun (ناخن) Italian: Unghia Spanish: Uña English: Nail . . Persian: Duš (دوش) Italian: Dosso Spanish: Dorso *Meaning: Back or Shoulder . . Persian: Āvāz (آواز) Italian: Voce Spanish: Voz English: Voice . . Persian: Rāst (راست) Italian: Retto Spanish: Recto English: Right . . Persian: Xers (خرس) Italian: Orso Spanish: Oso *Meaning: Bear . . Persian: Dādan (دادن) Italian: Dare Spanish: Dar *Meaning: To give . . Persian: Ke (که) Italian: Che Spanish: Que *It is a connector like: That, which, who and … . . Persian: Pirāmun (پیرامون) Italian: Perimetro Spanish: Perímetro English: Perimeter . . Persian: Div (دیو) Italian: Diavolo Spanish: Diablo English: Devil . . Persian: Mehtar (مهتر) Italian: Maestro Spanish: Maestro English: Master . . Persian: Andar (اندر) Italian: Entrare Spanish: Entrar English: Enter . . Persian: Miān (میان) Italian: Medio Spanish: Medio English: Mid . . Persian: Band (بند) Italian: Benda Spanish: Venda English: Band . . Persian: Pošti (پشتی) Italian: Posteriore Spanish: Posterior English: Posterior . . Persian: Kutāh (کوتاه) Italian: Corto Spanish: Corto English: Short . . Persian: Charm (چرم) Latin: Corium Italian: Cuoio Spanish: Cuero *Meaning: Leather . . Persian: Puside (پوسیده) Italian: Putrido Spanish: Putrido English: Putrid . . Persian: Ešnuse, Atse (اشنوسه، عطسه) Italian: Starnuto Spanish: Estornudo English: Sneez . . Persian: Magas (مگس) Italian: Mosca Spanish: Mosca *Meaning: Fly . . Persian: Nāv (ناو) Italian: Nave Spanish: Nave English: Navy

[@7mad211]

I just realized that persian turned (s) to (h) like in persian muscle is (ماهیچه/mahiche) while in kurdish muscle is (masulk/ماسولکە)

[@someone-wo5nu]

A lot of those words have English cognates that you didn't include, like "dandan" (Persian) and "dental" (English)

[@jaimemartin222]

Wow!

[@dragosgalateanu5779]

I love the comments. Reading them gave me hope and made me wonder why there's wars in this world

[@criztu]

it's because we are too many. there's not enough grass for all of us.

[@abdulaleem9207]

@@criztu it isnt just for resources that people fight in here. its mind control too.

[@mohammadnajibullahahmadzai5685]

Bahador jan this was so pleasant . thank you for making

[@AmirYazdanian]

We are all one distant family spread around the world, in the end. We have left our home many times during history, willingly or forcibly. More so in recent times so we can live a better life. But we shall never forget our root. I wish you all a prosperous life. ❤

[@lauralaly1873]

Love from Romania❤❤❤❤❤

[@saranico1815]

🙏

[@marmary5555]

Yet another excellent video. Thank you Bahador. Side note: _"Tabar"_ used to be called _"Tapur"_ in the Avestan language

[@mohammadnajibullahahmadzai5685]

@Kurdish Ball which Kurdish city are you from brother?

[@mehrdad5767]

@Kurdish Ball hi brother!

[@marmary5555]

@@BahadorAlast Tabarestan (former name of Gilan, Mazandaran and Gorgan) was also called Tapuria .

[@elinosra369]

Abe PlusEqualOne After the Arab invasion majority of Sassanid’s military people moved to Mazandran. That’s why majority of Northern Iran folks around Mazandran aren’t so much Islamic.

[@Mokh7777]

Rep 101 just like they turned Dezh-pol to Dezful 😆 Siné-dezh to Sanandaj, Zangan to zanjan, and Caspian to Qazvin. Yes we all hate the Islamic regime no matter which part of Iran. Also, Gilaki is northwestern branch of Iranian languages and close to Parthian Pahlavi with Mede substrat like Kurdish,Talysh, Mazani, Zazaki

[@inamqazi1921]

In Kashmiri language we also have words like Taber for an axe, mordeh for dead, navv for number 9, novv for word 'new', pardeh for curtains.

[@BahadorAlast]

Kashmiri is Indo-European as well, it's also Indo-Iranian (Ayran language), just like Persian. Lots of common words between Persian and Kashmiri, as we demonstrated in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2fZgqaNa9d_qNk

[@Theatf10]

@@BahadorAlast I'm not sure if it's related but in the semitic languages like arabic, death is Mawt and in aramaic, Muth, and Mavet (or Mawet) in Hebrew

[@MosquitoRacketgoesBURRR]

in sanskrit it is Mrityu ( death) and Mrut (dead ) and for 9 it is Navam

[@inamqazi1921]

@@MosquitoRacketgoesBURRR Alot of Kashmiri terms are derived from Sanskrit.

[@BahadorAlast]

@@Theatf10 That's a Semitic term. It's not related to the Persian word. However, the word Mawt (موت) also exists in modern Persian and it means the same thing. We got the word Mawt (موت) from Arabic. Although it exists in Persian, it's not used often and many Persian speakers wouldn't understand it. The Indo-European derived terms "مرد, مرده, مردن" (mord, morde, and mordan) are the ones that are commonly used.

[@malolelei3937]

Yessss finally. I had been waiting for this for a looong time. So happy that eventually you did it Bahador jan. Please consider uploading videos featuring Persian more often if possible. And would be great if you could have Darius participating in future videos with Romanian. I really find him cute :)) Awesome job as always. Looking forward for more videos. Love you all.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! Sure thing, and we will certainly have Darius back. We were discussing potential 2 on 2 videos with him and Andrei on one team!

[@malolelei3937]

@@BahadorAlast That would be awesome as well. Would be great to see Andrei again together with Darius. I wonder who will be their opponents? Russians, Serbians or Greeks by any chance? :)

[@elevatorsinrussia2597]

@@BahadorAlast Do 2 on 2 video with Monica & Firman and Berta & Enana.

[@BahadorAlast]

@@malolelei3937 We haven't organized it yet, but we will for sure, so stay tuned to find out :)

[@BahadorAlast]

@@elevatorsinrussia2597 👍👍

[@rockwiththeuniverse]

I love your videos. Thanks. Keep them coming👌👍

[@ddddd2845]

Persian girl is very beautiful, love from Moldova.

[@AloysioWisnu]

Indo-European languages are fascinating 😀 In my language, Indonesian and Javanese language (both are Austronesian languages), we have a lot of Sanskrit derived words, where Sanskrit is Indo-European language. By learning Sanskrit, I also found many similarities and cognates with English, Greek, Latin, Persian, etc., even with Chinese and Japanese languages😁 I always have a dream how fascinating Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Austronesian were. Such ancient and mystical languages 😊

[@adityanawani8134]

Some scholars have also suggested a link between PIE and PA families!😊😊😊

[@beback_]

aditya nawani I thought the closest relatives of IE were the Uralic (Finnish etc), and after that the Altaic (Turkish etc)?

[@adityanawani8134]

@@beback_ Yes you are correct but there are indeed some correspondances between Indo-European and Austronesian languages-like the numbers 1,2 and 3!😊😊😊

[@servantofaeie1569]

There is no genetic link between IE and any other family.

[@servantofaeie1569]

yea, if i remember correctly, "bahasa" is connected to Latin "fans" meaning to speak. "infans" means "cannot speak" and thats where "infant" comes from.

[@andreimdv661]

Our languages are very similar! Love from Romania!

[@maayanhaza6178]

Ah so exciting! What a lovely video! 💙💙

[@oana_cristina]

Yesterday I found this KZbin channel and I was really surprised to see many videos with Romanian, my native language! It's really amazing to find similarities with Persian. And I didn't know that we have many Iranians in Romania - especially in Bucharest. Quite interesting since I've read and watched some testimonies about Iranians becoming Christians and loving Israel, and that's a real miracle :)

[@elvisbustos2585]

I love Romanian🇷🇴❤ honestly the sexiest Latin language😍😍😍 much respect from a Spanish speaker

We absolutely LOVE Spanish over here, so the feeling is mutual. Greetings from Romania!

[@Navtsisc]

Romanian is not latin language.Is a mixture of french,turkish,italian,albanian,greek...

[@AlexaAlexAle]

@@Navtsisc Romanian IS a latin language. Get your facts straight.

[@motanelustelistu]

@@AlexaAlexAle It is NOT,stupid.This Spanish professor of Latin proved it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYGskIxqncl8l7c . Dacia is THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRY IN THE WORL,with the first NATION,NATION STATE,NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PURITY,CULTURE,LANGUAGE,OWN ALFABET,RELIGION,WRITING IN 3 FORMS etc. We have a history dating back to AT LEAST 13.000 years or 11.000 B.C. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before ANY other country and waaaaaay before even the 40th generation BEFORE the romans even existed,so how could a language spoken ONLY in some little village in roman empire give rise to other languages to wich is has NOTHING in common ? This ideea of "latin" descendency is AS IMBECILE and BLASFEMIC like the ideea that Dacian-roman mongreling give birth to the Romanian People. WE ARE DACIANS (and stop,like great Poet M.Eminescu said) .

[@motanelustelistu]

@@Navtsisc You're so stupid i can't understand.Dude,Dacia/Romania has a 13.000 y.o. history some 11.000 years B.C. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before any other tribe started to even settle down,let alone form a nation. We are THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD NATION,NATION STATE,NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PURITY,CULTURE,LANGUAGE,ALFABET,RELIGION and so on. So stop this stupid propaganda.

[@Lost7one]

I love these proto-indo european connections, these are the best vids!

[@florin.lupascu]

Wow, this is freaking amazing!

[@slawrenceram5149]

So many connections historically. Amazing. Your videos always bring science in languages

[@ethio-bollywood8856]

*It's Awesome and Great video like Always. Byzway kebrit is Matches in Amharic too. Same 2 Same 😊 respect 🙏 and Love ♥ you guys from ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹*

[@dadasha]

Ethiopia = Morher Africa respect!

[@POTATOEH81]

Bahador for the end music you can use a fade in effect on the audio track so it doesn't drown out the conversation , great video as always

[@BahadorAlast]

Thanks! For sure, although in some of the videos we drown out the conversation at the end on purpose since it may be deemed "inappropriate" haha

[@JavidShah246]

Now, this was fascinating! In Croatian-Persian video you could say ottoman empire had a role in spreading the persian words in balkan. But in this video things were different. Words like “che” , “tou” , “kur”....even his name: “darius” these are basic Persian words! Like am, is and are in english. All im saying is this video was what i expected from Croatian/Albanian and more.

[@albinh.3149]

Isnt croatian the same like serbian? But politicans deny it, because they want their own "language" .... because of the history behind croatians and serbs.... I am saying this because, he did a vid about Albanian and serbin.

[@JavidShah246]

Yes, i remember it! In that video, Klajd was the albanian representative. I like the klajd, thats why i remember the video😄

[@JavidShah246]

As an iranian, what fascinate me about Romanian is unlike Albanian and Croatian language, the similarities come from the basic words! Words that could not simply brought to Europe by conquerers like turks and mongols.

[@TabbyAngel2]

@@JavidShah246 remember that Scythian Iranians inhabited Eastern Europe, so the existence of Iranian terms was already present in the East before the Ottoman influence.

[@zain6348]

As an Arab, I feel left out because Indo-European is not even close to Semitic languages. The only words that are related in Iraqi Arabic is كبريت ( matches ) and پرده ( curtain or blinds ). Thanks for the video Bahador !!!

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you brother. I found it really interesting when I initially noticed that the Persian words "پنکه (panke)" and "پرده (parde)" are used in Iraqi Arabic, since the letter "پ" doesn't exist in the Arabic alphabet. That's before I found out how a lot of Persian words containing "پ" and "چ" are actually used in the Iraqi dialect.

[@mouradlarbi5820]

@Abe PlusEqualOne It is naughty to take advantage of any opportunity to spread your Islamphobia ... The Berber, Persian, Turkish, Albanian ..... people have entered Islam by conviction, I am Berber and the Berbers were the theologians of Christianity, but we have discovered that Islam is only the renewal of the message of Christ. Regarding Iraq, it was destroyed by a coalition of 33 countries led by the US and Saudi traitors

[@alirezabeiranvand2984]

@@mouradlarbi5820 your comment made me vomit. Sorry but we didn't enter Islam through conviction, it was through political pressure and persuasion and later through brainwashing and indoctrination. That's why most of us leave Islam as soon as we open our minds a little bit!

[@HoormazdKia]

Arabic has plenty of connections to Indo-European languages. You don't have to feel left out simply because people are enjoying the similarities between other languages. Don't let anyone poo poo who you are or what you are given, and don't let anyone dictate what your culture is or isn't. Iranians certainly don't.

[@JavidShah246]

Thats because of Sumerian! I believe Sumerian is the connection and the missing link between iraqi arabic and indo-europian. they invented الفباء too

[@user-gr1mt6wr3m]

Hi! Please ask Darius if he participated in some hebrew classes like 3 years ago in Medias, Romania. I think we were colleagues. I hope I'm not mistaken. And btw, great great great videos! Keep on making them!

[@BahadorAlast]

Hi! Yes, he did. That's him! Thank you!!

[@mehdijahandar3391]

Loved it, thanks

[@lantimur2900]

She's so beautiful

[@Mokh7777]

Finally! Doing the IE languages based on their common IE family shared roots and cognates, not the non-IE words that have come in the languages. Well done!

[@seanfitzgerald2946]

The language similarities on this channel are nice, but the biggest lesson I have obtained from this channel after watching almost all the videos is that Iranian women are incredibly beautiful and sweet ;)

[@richardfrye7929]

Yes, Persian women are gorgeous.

[@fo6748]

In my college the Iranian women always impress me with their looks and their intelligence. I didn't know anyone from Iran before college. I would like to have an Iranian girlfriend and she can teach me Persian.

[@auberginesonofdude7970]

Is that the BIGGEST lesson you get?

[@laodice_III]

@@auberginesonofdude7970 He didn't know about Persian women, but now he knows that Persian women are lovely.

[@auberginesonofdude7970]

@@laodice_III As you can see, I asked if this was the BIGGEST, I repeat, BIGGEST thing that learned, or can be learned here. I have no problem with Persian people just because they are Persian.

[@LisaR._]

Awesome video thank u.

[@hamishdomergue8810]

Russian does have Topor, Chemodan and Chaban in the same meanings.

[@sergeytsybin]

Agree, and choban was inhabited from the Caucasus which was under Iranian influence in past

[@hamishdomergue8810]

@@sergeytsybin Arguably since it's common Indo-European word.

[@user-jr4ie1vy3i]

These are Turkish words.

[@marcelcostache2504]

M с there not Turkish words of anything the Turks took them from the far superior culture called Persia

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

kesofat Lol Turkish, and Turkic are not the same people tho similar language, tho the latter has many Arabic loan words etc🙄🤦‍♂️

[@lyubo123]

I found 3 words from this video are similar in Bulgarian language: Lale, Nahut and Kibrit. I guess will be the same in Turkish.

[@dayift2387]

Yeah we Bring these world to bulgaria in ottoman times

[@eatemadfanaee5954]

@@dayift2387 ottoman turkish had much more persian words than modern turkish language

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

Turkish is not an indo-european language though. So if those cognates exist in Turkish, they are either adopted from indo-european or given to indo-european from Turkish.

[@schaizelmachie-velli7512]

Yes that's true İn turkish also we say Lale and Kibrit exactly same but for Nahut we say Nohut

[@iranshahrpower238]

@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 Ottoman Turkish was a combination of Persian and Turkish.

[@seanmortazyt]

Fantastic. I recently spent a week in Romania and absolutely loved it and its people.

[@blackpearl5834]

luv your video

[@alexandruanita2673]

I am from Romania and I am coming to Iran in the next weeks, hopefully.

[@BahadorAlast]

Have a great trip!

[@alexandruanita2673]

@@BahadorAlast Thank you so much!

[@jojo-ql9sg]

Did you travel here?

[@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM]

Happy new year! First of all, the persian girl is absolutely beautiful! Second this îs intersted idea making this comparation. In Romanian sheppard has a different form Păcurar / Păcuraru , 2 Păcurari. Now adays IT îs used only rare în Transilvania and in Macedonia/ Aromânian speakers

[@vacheron7976]

Persian woman are so sweety ! love from Romania !

[@Kig_Ama]

Your circle of friends is sooo multicultural, luv it!

[@azeemmarathingal9523]

Its simply amazing.. !

[@sadiqkhan7230]

Eu sunt din Afghanistan stau in Romania mai e anca multi simileritati dintri Romana si persana Musafir ,doshmen ,perda , kerya , mordar , bakshish si ......

[@motanelustelistu]

Well,what do you here ? We don't want or like foreigners HERE. Your deserts awaits you dude.

[@sadiqkhan7230]

@@motanelustelistu Hahaha at first place you are that much stupid that you don't even know that Afghanistan is not either desert nor it's an arab country, and second who the fuck are you ? I am gonna finish my faculty and will go back becouse already there isn't anything special in Romania .....

[@motanelustelistu]

@@robertgaraiacu9891 Esti atat de limitat incat te crezi superior unor oameni doar pt ca aia traiesc in aer curat din munca lor (ţăranii) . V-ai si-amar de capul tau :) . Pe mine poti fi sigr ca ma vrea toata lumea,spre deosebire de habauci ca tine. Si-apoi vorbesc cu cine e Roman si stiu ca intelege,nu cu amarati care se chinuie sa traduca cu goagăl = )))).

[@jugojugoslavia3156]

Acele cuvinte sunt din limba turca, Imperiul Otoman a ajuns si prin Persia, frate asa ca a lasat multe comori .

[@motanelustelistu]

@Laletinov Mda,mare branza.M-am grabit.

[@majid.shadmehr]

Well...its perfect thank u...doroud!

[@abiramiramalingam1123]

Hi Bahador, I really enjoy watching your videos on language similarities. I couldn't help noticing this: the word for 'blind' which is 'kur' in Farsi and 'cior' in Romanian is also 'kurudu' in Tamil. The word 'bear' (animal) which is 'khers' in Persian and 'urs' in Romanian is 'kardi' in Tamil. It is known that there are similar/related words between Persian and other Indo-European languages with Hindi & Sanskrit, but finding Tamil words similar to Persian amazes me. :)

[@cosminharalambie3420]

مرسی من و دوس پسر رومانیاییم از این ویدئو لذت بردیم. Prietenelei mele și mie ne-a plăcut forte mult acest videoclip.

[@khayyamnieshaburi3027]

In Iran We Have a Romanian Village ( Zarger Village - Qazvin Province)

[@inamqazi1921]

Does zarger mean Goldsmith?

[@rhm9817]

@@inamqazi1921 yes

[@saeidezatolahi3482]

Love your name! Omar Khayyam was a skeptic who criticized Islam and religions in general, just like most Persian scientists, mathematicians, poets and inventors of the period. Makes you wonder why they falsely call their achievements the Golden age of "Islam"? 🤔 Just because they lived under the Caliphate and had to adopt Islamic names to make movement and life easier for themselves.

[@mehrdad5767]

@@inamqazi1921 yep

[@inamqazi1921]

@@mehrdad5767 Same in my language.

[@alirezabeiranvand2984]

Nice!

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

It's fascinating to see similarities in indo-european languages. No matter how far removed, you can still find cognates. Fun fact: the language of the Hittites was written in an ancient Semitic script, which puzzled archaeologists for a long time because the words did not resemble Semitic languages like Babylonian or ancient Egyptian, however, the language of the Hittites was cracked because one of the words resembled the English word "water" and so it was discovered that the Hittites spoke an indo-european language.

[@Arte.mi.]

This was so interesting! I’m Romanian and I really like how Persian sounds, but the order of the words in the sentence seems so complicated. Wish I could learn some

[@hivron8640]

I love this Channel ❤️ Respect to all iranic people from Kurdish girl ❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@mubashirhakeem9466]

Lovely studio 😄and Afcors the video too

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you brother! We miss you and look forward to seeing you soon in the new studio :)

[@perastotigautera1426]

We have another comon word every romanian/persian would understand:dusman!....the other thing we have in common is the stuning beautiful girls..although i would say the persian girls have the upper in this one!

[@mojcyrus1495]

Thank you my friend,love and respect to you and your beautiful country

[@dadasha]

As a persian male, Iwould say our girls are pretty tied when it comes to beauty!

[@ionutbitea4242]

Similarities between Romanian and Russian pls next

[@BahadorAlast]

👍👍

[@BossGokaiGreen]

JAPANESE AND FILIPINO (TAGALOG), PLEASE! 🐷🇯🇵🇵🇭

[@danavram8437]

@VFM #7634 In Romanian if you say "Cu un kil de carne nu se moare de foame" a Portuguese can understand it, LOL.

[@Rosx1000]

O povo tem que se decidir: ou fica fingindo costume e intimidade, ou fica se desfazendo da língua dos outros.

[@Andrij_Kozak]

Fun fact the Romanian city called Iasi is named after the Alanian tribe. The Ossetians (Iranic-speaking nation) are the successors of the Alans.

[@sepidehzandi139]

Wow! That's interesting!

[@mehrankhoshnevisan]

cool

[@0tt0fl0tt]

Sepideh Zandi Jász was a Magyar tribe. Romanians took our land with Jewish support (now Jews are taking the remaining land from us too). Jász is basically archer. Jesu/Jesus was a Jász-Philistine name for the Sun as well. Such a shame we don’t know the truth. We have a place in Hungary called Jásd, identical with Persian Yazd, home of Zoroastrianism. Don’t leave your country, people. Stay in Iran and fight for your freedoms.

[@doce7678]

@@0tt0fl0tt The Romanians did not take anything from you. You Hungarians, a tribe who came from Asia to these lands where we were masters, you always have the impression that someone stole you when you were actually thieves. The story you are learning is totally wrong. Your own language betrays the fact that you are not from here. You like to dream. Iașii is a former Sarmatian people, part of the Alan group, which appears in the fourteenth century in Moldova and Hungary. The Sarmatians spoke an Iranian-Indo-European language. In Sanskrit and Hindi, "Yazg, yash" means "good fame." The Iazigii are mentioned by Ovidiu as "Ipse vides onerata ferox ut ducata Iasyx / Per Istri plaustra bubulcus aquas" and "Jazyges et Colchi Metereaque turba Getaque / Danubii mediis vix prohibentur aquis". The Ponds and the Alans were two branches of the three Sarmatians, the third being the Roxolians. The Hungarian name of the city of Iași (Jászvásár) means word for word "Piața (Târgul) Iașilor" (Iași Market); The old Romanian name, Târgul Ieșilor (and the alternative form of Iași), could have the same meaning. In Hungary, the iași have left the name of Jász to a committee and several localities; on the other hand, the Sarmatians were reputed archers, or in the Hungarian language ijász means precisely "archer", hence the assumption that this word would also be derived from the Iași . Very interesting is the fact that these descendants of the iași from Hungary have popular costumes very similar to the ones found in the Moldavian area and even their music looks a lot like the Romanian one.

[@marcelcostache2504]

The Alans did past through the region they they mixed with the vandals and settled in northern Africa( carthage) around 430, the others where the Roxolani that to my knowledge where indo-iranic they where in today Moldova before the roman conquest.

[@JakubW.]

For Polish: what - co tulip - tulipan, not very similar to neither Romanian nor Persian blind - ślepy, but he have word like "ociemniały" which also means blind. you - ty axe - topór, but that's probably a very old borrowing from one of the iranian languages. dead - martwy, "mord" means a very cruel murder cheakpeas - ciecierzyca suitcase - walizka bear - niedźwiedź, not very simillar because for some reason to proto-slavic people original name of the bear was some kind of taboo so they used other names instead - honey-eater nine - dziewięć, same indo-european root but very different evolution shephard - pasterz matches - zapałki

[@adldy8618]

martir in romanian is one who sacrifice his life, cheakpeas in italian is cieci ,you definitely have an interesting language,suitcase in romanian can be valiza or geamantan

[@ilincaleca9947]

Also, shepherd can be păstor

[@alex_x6262]

Similarities between serbo-croatian and bulgarian would be very fun video.Please do it next as there few to none videos about that :)

[@BahadorAlast]

I'd love to! Just need a fluent Bulgarian speaker in Toronto who is interested in participating :)

[@stefanzara9408]

Wow so many similarities between the two languages!

[@arthurergali4304]

Please could you add similarities between Sami and Finnish(or Eesti) languages Greetings from Kazakhstan

[@talhatariqyuluqatdis]

Darius? Thats a really cool name

[@BahadorAlast]

Yes! Very cool name. The Persian name "Dariush" entered the Ancient Greek language as Δᾱρεῖος (Dareios), and from Greek it entered Latin, to eventually be used by some Europeans today.

[@mehrdad5767]

@@hamzaslr9093 its darya not daria

[@mehrdad5767]

@@hamzaslr9093 idiot its not arabic alphebt arab have not art and script.its darya not daria

[@maayanhaza6178]

@@hamzaslr9093 It's actually not the Arabic script, but a modified Aramaic script. We don't say that English is written in the English script, we say Latin script.

[@marmary5555]

@@maayanhaza6178 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@khatrinze1645]

بسیار. جالب و زیبا. بود. از شما تشکر. میکنم

[@Titi-tf1fc]

Great job as always Mr Alast. besyar sepasgozar

[@mehrankhoshnevisan]

I never get bored watching your vlogs.I can watch for hours and still interesting. من آنم که بر پای خوکان مریزم مر این گوهرین دُر لفظ دری را

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!

[@muizrahim861]

Even the word "shepherd" sounds similar to choopan and cioban.

[@hilotub]

@Pero Djetlić shepherd is related to chef(fr.)/chief(engl.)/schaeffer(germ), and ș/sch-ef (ro.), everywhere meaning "boss"/chieftan/capitano of a flock/herd/mass of sheep or goats or other animals.

[@criztu]

@@hilotub it is related to 'jupan' and 'stapan' and 'ban'. the particle 'jiu' = god, divine - eg. Jiupiter, Jovis, juvenate. in Romanian Jiu river, jivina - living thing. the particle 'pan' or 'ban' means lord - Assur-ban-i-baal - god and lord of Assur. 'pan' in slavics means 'lord, sir' - romanian 'domn'.

[@hilotub]

@@criztu Good point! You nailed it just fine!

[@sadddee]

I came here after watching California Dream. As a Persian speaker, it was like watching Indian movies. You clearly identify many words, but can't understand the language. So I came here for more understanding. Thanks Bahador Alast!

[@ryansmith8345]

Greetings , peace & love to the lovely people of Romania from Iran :)))

[@Bahador_R]

Bahador jan, damet garm. Xeili xub bud.

[@lunarbike]

in Turkish we say ; lâle for tulip, kör for blind, nohut for chickpeas, çoban for shepard ( the name of famous yoghurt brand 'chobani' come from this word) kibrit for Matches. so again and again , in other words, similar words from the same geograph... greetings to both Persian and Romanian friends from Turkey...

[@BahadorAlast]

Very nice! 👍 Greetings to Turkey!

[@acelasitwinkie7568]

we have word rahat that is a turkish desert but in romania that means shit :)) must be some ironically word from ottoman era

[@mihaela5227]

We say the same words in romanian language.

[@SantomPh]

@@acelasitwinkie7568 I somehow doubt sweets invented in the 1770s changed the Romanian meanings

[@lunarbike]

@@acelasitwinkie7568 "rahat" word means "comfort" in Turkish. that is very interesting, may be you are right my friend :)

[@mccardrixx5289]

Nice ;)

[@videowow8755]

Thanks bahador for all your video.could you upload your video on your facebook too!easy to share thanks man

[@BahadorAlast]

I do upload them on Instagram, I've been thinking about having them on facebook as well. Thank you.

[@ukbtsarmy4725]

You should do a video of Romanes (Romanì Language) Vs Rajasthani/ Punjabi/ Hindi becuz Romanes has sooo many similarities to all these Languages and is based on Sanskrit and is an ancient/ modern Indo-Aryan language that has survived out of the South Asian subcontinent since Romani people's migration to Europe from Pakistan 🇵🇰/🇮🇳 North India from 950BCE-1000AD. Me familija speak the standard (Kalderashi) Romanes dialect and the Sinte Romanes dialect. I'm mixed Romani (Sinti+Balkan Rom💙☸️💚)🇩🇪☸️🇬🇧~.

[@aalexx1900]

10:28 “I thought you said cheese” 😂😅 it may be because of its Transylvanian accent. Nice video guys keep it up!

[@ke_ke5465]

Fantastic

[@gmcwww]

The curtain sentence was meant to say that you madamoiselle have a very beautiful face! Love ♥ from tartarian brothers and sisters on the West Coast of the black sea... ☺

[@Serxo1]

In the Kurdish we always transform the (b) to (v)

[@Serxo1]

@Abe PlusEqualOne I don't know But in (sorani lori) Kurdish they don't do that For example: baba_bab we change it to bav it means fother.

[@marmary5555]

Mazanderanis and Guilakis do that too.

[@Serxo1]

@@marmary5555 This language so near to Kurdish . But The Guilakis, Mazandranis and the Kurdish are at risk of forgetting the Kurds in Turkey and North Khorasan lose their language.

[@ankitcoolvideos]

Regional hindi.. V to B

[@marcelcostache2504]

same in romanian greek latin and even spanish lool

[@Randomizer92mx]

The persian girl is a cutie!

[@alifakhraei8684]

I am ..... very happy from this great job...............i love .....all

[@jaluepo]

It is good to know Etymology of a word.

[@DomingosCJM]

(0:50) "chi/che/ce" resembles "que" in portuguese; (2:05) "tu" the same as in portuguese; (2:50) "mort/morde/mord" correlate to "morte" in portuguese; (4:20) I don't see a much clear relation with the word in persian "khers" to "urs" in romanian or "urso" in portuguese; (5:45) Numbers usually point to a good correlation in indo-european languages, "noua/noh" and "nove" in portuguese, "novo/nova" is for 'new'; (6:36) "choopan/cioban" the best correlation that I could came with in portuguese is "choupana" a hut with a rough finish, made of wood or branches where the shepherd could live; (9:10) "perdea" I would correlate to "persiana" that is a venetian blind.

[@dragonite5315]

I didn't know that we have..many words In common.hmmm. Interesting. ✌️❤️🇷🇴❤️🇮🇷❤️✌️

[@Mari01ish]

Great! Please, make a video with similarities between Romanian and Hindi.

[@professorx1935]

Oh man I'd like to see that!

[@siyacer]

Pretty interesting

[@NASAE-wt1ec]

Getes brothers love😍romanians are getes and persians are massa-getes(big getes)🤗

[@auroralyran7069]

My students flatmates are iranian And spk persian wich i am quite long around here for cpl years and find out i un some way understand they dialect wich has many words similar to romanian

[@kiarashouraman8236]

واقعا کار دشواریه بشینی دو تا زبان رو بزاری کنار هم و شباهتاشون رو پیدا کنی بعضیا پیش ازین برای برخی زبانها انجامش دادن اما واقعا علاقه میخواد انجام این کار سپاس💗

[@BahadorAlast]

سپاس از شما. بله, درسته من خیلی به این کار علاقه دارم

[@gycu1000]

Un mare like din partea mea ,mai ales pentru frumoasa persana....!!!!