Historical Connections Between Persian and Hebrew

In addition to common Semitic words that entered modern Persian through Arabic, there are several words shared between two these languages that exemplify a historical connection. Did you know that at one point in the past, Jews comprised of 20% of the population of the Persian Empire and an autonomous state called Yehud Medinata (State of Judah/Jews) existed for two centuries within the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Under this autonomous state, the three main common languages were Aramaic and Hebrew, Persian. were its three main languages. The state existed until the conquests of Alexander. In this video we discuss some of the terms which exemplify a historical connection between Persian and Hebrew.
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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.
Although ancient Hebrew went extinct as a spoken language many centuries ago it survived as a liturgical language for Judaism thanks to Jewish liturgy, rabbinic literature, intra-Jewish commerce, and other texts. For this reason, Hebrew is now considered the only truly successful example of a revived dead language. In the 19th century, it was revived as a spoken and literary language. Hebrew became the lingua franca of Palestine's Jews, and subsequently the official language of the State of Israel. After Israel, the United States has the second largest Hebrew-speaking population in the world.

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[@mccardrixx5289]

Stay safe!!!

[@lingux_yt]

congrats bahador 😃😃😃 don't worry, we'll wait for new videos until this world mess ends

[@AmirYazdanian]

Bahador Alast Congratulations ! ❤

[@JoseAntonio-tt2mb]

Quando escuto um persa falado confundo com árabe e hebraico ,quando eu estava voltando do Iraque na guerra do golfo ,encontrei um judeu brasileiro falando em hebraico achei que fosse árabe.

[@bravarki194]

Oh Wow, CONGRATULATIONS!!! May God bless you and your perfect family of four ❤❤❤❤

[@maayanhaza6178]

As a Persian Jew who loves Iran and feels strongly connected to Iranian culture this video was such a wonderful treat. Thank you for this amazing content! Love you guys 😍😍

[@treaszurechesterfield4900]

Man blir jätteglad av din bild :) Positiv energi!

[@anankedell]

We are all Iranian at end of the day my dear.

[@maayanhaza6178]

@@anankedell Thank you dear! I agree! I even celebrate Nowruz in Israel even though I've not lived in Iran.

[@anankedell]

@@maayanhaza6178 hopefully one day you come visit the motherland. I love to see a day all Persian Jewish come back home. ❤️

[@maayanhaza6178]

@@anankedell Aww so nice to hear. Thank you! To one day have the chance to visit Iran and step foot in that wonderful land would be a huge dream come true 😍😍 Unfortunately I'm not allowed to now but hopefully soon things will change and I'll have a chance 🙏🏻🙌

[@Simsrockslol]

i speak farsi, hebrew, and arabic so i really enjoyed this !!!

[@maayanhaza6178]

Wow! How do you speak all 3??

[@Simsrockslol]

Maayan Haza im not fluent in all three but my family comes from the southern part of Iran( Khuzestan) so I am fluent in Farsi and alright at Iraqi Arabic. My mother’s family is partially Jewish so I took an interest in learning Hebrew so far i know basics and reading and writing. I’ve went to Israel on birthright last summer and i think i got by okay in israel lol. but everyone in Israel spoke english so they didn’t really give me too many chances to practice

[@aleynayaseminmustafa7615]

Wow that's really cool. Which one is your native language?

[@movie30000]

Good for you.

[@Simsrockslol]

Aleyna Yasemin Mustafa Im American so English is by far my best language. Farsi was my first language though I spoke only Farsi from 0-5.

[@gamlielabdar3398]

Persians are our friends, cyrus freed our people once and i as a jewish person believe so

[@sorenghaedi8270]

We love you from iran !❤

[@pooyahimself7961]

👍😘

[@Mijn24]

Soren Ghaedi stop *islam*

[@manipirooz5806]

Of course we are! Politics will never ruin our history. Love and respect from Iran!

[@midlifecrisis9151]

@غزالة L So who are the real Jews? Is it the Palestinians? Or are they gone?

[@myriam8038]

I'm Iranian and i speak hebrew and persian.💜 it was an interesting video

[@alefbaparsi957]

I love the way you use "Qq" in your last name.

[@eu2412]

I’d love to learn Farsi.

[@supremerevelations]

The Persians and Hebrews have ancient ties. It was after all Cyrus the Great who rebuilt the second temple, is extolled in Judaism and allowed the Jews to return to their homeland, confirmed by the Cyrus cylinder. History is fascinating, I particularly liked the old Akkadian origin of Tanur, and how words have changed pronunciation in Persian due to the Arab conquests, most notably seen in the consonant shift from 'P' to 'F,' from Pars to Fars, Parsi to Farsi and so on. It's fascinating to see the progression of cultures and language over time and how different cultures interact and impact each other. What I like about this channel is that it highlights the cultural and linguistic ties between so many different cultures, showing how they've interacted in the past, highlighting the humanities with the removal of modern politics that can sometimes be intoxicating. Great video as always

[@mznor6372]

Yea and we don't forget what Esther and Mordechai did to thousands of Iranians.

[@BGold_Animation]

@@mznor6372 what did they do to thousands of iranians?

[@thedemongodvlogs7671]

@@BGold_Animation according to our holiday of purim Cyrus was being tricked by an evil advisor called haman who wanted to become king and kill all the jew but a Jewish girl esther married the Cyrus and told him that haman was evil so Cyrus had haman hung and freed the jews and let us go home and build our second temple also in the process saving the Persians from being ruled by an evil man. Probably my second favourite holiday everyone dresses up and we read the story, infact the holiday was actually made so while Persians celebrated Nowruz we could also celebrate something and that's why they are at similar times every year! So i have know idea why he is saying this.

[@Abilliph]

@@thedemongodvlogs7671 a correction, Cyrus isn't Xerxes. Cyrus was the one that let the Jews return home. Some Jews remained in Persia and then the story of Esther took place. Ahashverosh or Xerxes was the king of Persia back then.

[@gino7987]

@@Abilliph jews and Iranians go back for centuries, we got more in common than any other nations and race, in fact lots of Jewish culture is based on old Persian culture, iran has been mentioned in old testament several times and our king is the only king that been called messiah, I love my Jewish brothers and sisters.

[@lingux_yt]

"Persian sounds like Hebrew with a heavy Russian accent" 😁 that makes perfect sense, because of the rolled Rs. Portuguese sounds like Russian for the same reason (also for short vowels)

[@marcelomeireles2114]

I guess that "heavy Russian accent" (as far as I don't speak Russian) is the same for traditional Sephardic Hebrew (Iberian Hebrew) pronounciation.

[@sonnnee]

no??? persian doesn’t sound russian

[@ryanj2345]

@Gatinho do penhasco I've heard lots of people say that Brazilian Portuguese sounds Russian

[@alirezamohsenpour5160]

Leandro R wait ..what??

[@lingux_yt]

@@sonnnee that's what the Israeli lady said, and I agree

[@HamzaBaqoushi]

Persian is a sexy language, sounds like sugar dices dropping in a tea cup. You guys make us proud. Let's all work for peace. Greetings from Morocco!

[@elaypegah1013]

Thank you, Love from Iran 💙💜

[@aleynayaseminmustafa7615]

Thank you that's nice of you. I'm half Persian 💗💗to Morocco

[@shahrzadddd]

💓💓💓💓

[@rajab4187]

Absolutely It's similar to balochi a lot

[@cmcnadejda5960]

And there is that saying فارسی شکر است

[@fanzy1338]

Pil or Fil is a Persian word in origin. The word in Avestan as Pilae and Sanskrit as Pilu was first introduced into Aramaic by Achaemenid Persians around 500BCE. Since Pil is native to India and also first domesticated in India, the idea of introducing a foreign word for this animal is like carrying wood to the forest. 2- Din was not mentioned in this video but since questioned by some viewers, the word etymology derived from old Persian. The sense of religious creed or a system of religious rules is borrowed from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dyn' /dēn/), which developed from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎡𐎴 (d-a-i-n /*daina-/, “a religious-informed or conscientious way of life”), which underwent influence from Akkadian when the Achaemenid Persian Empire incorporated its Semitic kingdoms. Developing also from Younger Avestan 𐬛𐬉𐬥𐬁‎ (dēnā), a term already having a predecessor with a religious sense in Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁‎ (daēnā), which is possibly akin to Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna), whence zen. This possibly derives in part under the influence of Elamite 𒁲𒂊𒉡 (/dēn/). 3- Both words Khardal and Sokut are also of Persian origin. For its etymology refer to Middle Persian transliteration and/or Moin encyclopedic dictionary.

[@fanzy1338]

I NSA I have provided all the information with facts and references which can not be denied.

[@amlans5314]

@I NSA rude psycho spotted who has no counterargument only abuses

[@marmary5555]

@@fanzy1338 excellent comment. Thank you!

[@Abilliph]

The word for pil also exist in Akkadian, a semitic language, in 2000 bc. It was pronounced pilu or piru.

[@tulsibaba]

@@Abilliph Cold elephant : Chill Pil :)

[@anitahlavekova8524]

Persian: buse, Hebrew: busa, Slovak: pusa 💋.... Pesian: shesh, Hebrew: shesh, Slovak: shest 6️⃣.... love it

[@marcelomeireles2114]

Portugues: shesh is seis (pronouced in Portugal just like shesh)

[@hamidr609]

We also have shast in Persian meaning 60 :)

[@marcelomeireles2114]

@@hamidr609 In Hebrew, 60 would be "sixies", the plural form of six: sheshim.

[@ShragaMatate]

@@marcelomeireles2114 You got the princip of it correct :) but there are irregularities to every lang... 60 is shishim, not sheshim.

[@marcelomeireles2114]

@@ShragaMatate yes! thx for the correction

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

“Dat” came to Hebrew from the book of Esther which is set in Persia.

[@abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742]

Yes Esther was the Queen of Persia for a period of time, and she was Jewish.

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

Abbul Files Aramaic Dath is from the same Persian origin.

[@edoughgeographic9247]

@@abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742 but eshter is old Iraqi name, a babylonian goddess

[@kenjerry]

I would also note that in the book of Esther, the word dat means something closer to "law" (like the current Persian meaning, as noted in the video) rather than "religion" like in modern Hebrew.

[@interestingyoutubechannel1]

@@edoughgeographic9247 The goddess Ishtar has no etymological connection with Esther (between Old Iranian and Hebrew Canaanite). Its more likely setāre/stara ('star' in Persian) is the connected root for naming of Queen Esther. and side-note, goddess Ishtar was worshiped not only by Babylonians, but also Akkadians and Assyrians... and, under a different name, it was an ancient Sumerian goddess too.

[@itaielias537]

I am persian jew and I know hebrew and persian and I really enjoyed. The word suger in hebrew very simullar to persian. Hebrew: sukar Persian: shikar

[@paulobriffesrn-7977]

In portuguese is açúcar!!! Sounds pretty much similar. Azucar, sukar

[@AndersGehtsdochauch]

in Greek: zakhari

[@shaheenakhter9975]

We use Shakar ( شکر ) for Brown Sugar in Urdu and Chini ( چینی) for white sugar.

[@leajoymine6922]

In hindi it is shkar

[@baybayka]

turkish: şeker bosnian: šećer

[@ebruguntutan3444]

My mother always said that Persian is the language of love.❤

[@Narimaan94]

We are proud that your mother has such a beautiful thinking about Parsi😍 I wish God a long life for such a mother

[@islamemam-1798]

Ma shabi daste bararim o doayi bekonim ☺️

[@deepdiver849]

I guess because of Rumi :)

[@DANIAL101]

It's the language of soul i consider it

[@aleynayaseminmustafa7615]

It's nice how much similarities in Hebrew and Iranian there is. 😊

[@Sarawni]

Yonca, Mina Mustafa I Think it is because of the assyrian Aramaic, since 90% of the words are the same in aramaic aswell and it was one of the first written languages.

[@manipirooz5806]

This is amazing. I found "daad" to be very interesting. Had to look it up to confirm that's how it entered Hebrew and wow that's true! Super cool! We have a long history with the Jewish people. Much love and respect!

[@ittaihen]

Daad or Dat is close to the latin word Data/Datum. also the Hebrew word "Pardes" for citrus orchard is from "Pardesiya" the royal gardens of Persia kings, which also has common stem with the English word Paradise.

[@VisionInTears]

Bahador I love every single video, as an Assyrian I appreciate your work. I understood majority of the words both Persian and Hebrew. I can't wait to learn both languages. Beautiful ❤️

[@marcelomeireles2114]

In Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation, not Israeli Hebrew pronunciation, khardal is pronounced exactly as in Persian.

[@ronaaron6935]

I was just going to say that mizraHim in general would pronounce a (proper) trilled 'r'.

[@tvtalkwithavi]

@@ronaaron6935 Me too! That really bothered me how she explained it, as if speaking for everyone .`\/\ '_' /\/`

[@user-px7kx2gp1b]

That French resh many Israelis use really bothers me. I'm a sefaradi of Morroccan ascent, and people were always asking me if I'm Russian...

[@mmsher7211]

KHAND RISH FARSI RISH KHAND MAEN FUNNY

[@ZezoSaa]

love you bahador and shahrazad from Lebanon ♥️♥️

[@shahrzadddd]

❤❤❤

[@markmager1339]

Omggggh I'm a Hebrew speaker and I didn't know that in Persian are so many similar words

[@TheRahimpur]

I'm an israeli from iranian origin, and it's such a shame my grandma didn't passed on the languege to my mom....

[@th9827]

Tannoor-تَنُّورْ- Oven Feel-فِيلْ-elephant Khardal-خَرْدَل-mustard Bousa-بَوُسَة-kiss(in formal arabic qubla قُبلَة) Filfil-فِلفِل-pepper Fuladh-فُولاذ-steel Sakat(v.)-سَكَتْ-sukoot(n.)-سُكوت-silence. And the hebrew sentence is clear and easy. Very nice episode❤❤

[@th9827]

@@ismaelabdo1631 the word tannoor is an Arabic word it is mentioned in the Qur'an.

[@homosapien.a6364]

I love hebrew language I'm already learning it, so similar to my native language it's arabic אני אוהב שפה עברית 😌

[@noamto]

Just like the word "dat" for law/religion, "din" دِين also means law/judgement in Hebrew and is used a lot to refer to religious law too. A "court of law" is formally called "beit din" בית דין ("house of judgement") in Hebrew, both in the modern legal sense and in the religious sense. And this is the more older semmitic word that is more common in the Hebrew bible.

[@rojintania]

Shalom from Iran.I love this video much,it shows how nations would be doing if there was no border.No silly liar politicans who said down with this country and down with that country.Our greatest king of all time Cyrus the great is a role model.We are one!

[@user1596]

Love to Persian Brothers 🖤 from your Iranic Cousin 🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯

[@sonofpersia4780]

Thanks bîre min

[@user1596]

Dario Moreno why do you comment in Mongol language ? speak english

[@mcha_yt]

Supas

[@niceman8776]

im israeli persian jew. im really love the culture and the langung of iran by the way- . mardom aziz va mohtram irani, ma yaoodian shoma ro doost darim. salamti va Azadi baray shoma inshalla.

[@mehrdad9108]

realman shoma hamvatane ma hastid. Ma ham shomaro doost darim 🙏🙏

[@mehrdad9108]

ak rind 🙏🙏♥️

[@epicminecrafty94]

i speak arabic and i could relate to most of the words btw i love ur vids

[@AliAseman]

Thank you, such a great video, I can only imagine how much one video could bring us all closer together and move boundaries.

[@AloysioWisnu]

buse (kiss) reminds me of beso, a Spanish word for kiss! 😀

[@raheembadalzadeh7932]

yes, the word has its roots from proto-indo-european

[@mirnowruz]

Maybe the word beso is related to that

[@rajab4187]

Arab conquest of undlus bruh

[@thedamned8202]

Beso is from Latin basium which is cognate with English buss and Persian bus/buse . The Arabic word بوسة is from Persian

[@user-px7kx2gp1b]

Both Spanish and Persian are languages in the PIE branch. So, not a surprise there.

[@anaraliyev5640]

Amazing video. Full of new interesting informations. Thanks Bahador 👍🏽

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you my friend!

[@vm845]

My mother tongue is tati language from Kavkaz (judeo-persian), city of Derbent. Additionally I speak Hebrew and Russian. I really enjoyed this video )

[@1995yuda]

This is INCREDIBLE! I had no idea we had an autonomous state within Persia! Also the word PARDES/PRDS/פרדס(pshat,remez,drash,sod) which we use to describe the 4 levels of interpretation of the Torah/Hebrew Bible, and a Garden(like Eden)... is also Persian. We actually have strong spiritual common grounds connected to the ancient Mittanni Empire. Peace and love to the Persian people from Israel ;)

[@mccardrixx5289]

Another awesome video ;)

[@vericacvetkovic9093]

French R came to Hebrew through Yiddish. Original Hebrew pronounces R the normal way.

[@galgrunfeld9954]

It's not "normal way", but how R was pronounced in Semitic languages (like in Arabic nowadays).

[@illillyillyo]

H S but that’s the thing. Not “everyone else” says it that way lol. German, dutch, French all say it the other way and in English they don’t have a rolled r either

[@illillyillyo]

That’s very cool! Thank you for that fun fact!!! 😊 I had no idea!

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

Verica Cvetkovic I think not so much from Yiddish itself but from German Jews a.k.a Ashkenazi Jews (Ashkenaz is Germany)

[@ateekahmitik324]

Verica Cvetkovic The Semitic way, not the European way. Correct. This girl on the video, has learned and spoken Hebrew, the euro washed way, and that is in no way shape or form the authentic, divine and Semitic way of pronouncing Hebrew.

[@user-rd4hv6mc9b]

I come from a mizrachi/sefardí background and I can confirm the use of buse/busa we use it I would say more then neshika but neshika is used more in Hebrew in general in my family we use buse/busa instead of neshika

[@aliner1546]

אמר בן-מלך Yes neshika is in Hebrew and busa is in Arabic and it used as a slang in Israel mainly by Mizrahim, many Hebrew slangs are basically Arabic

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

Iranian here! Lots of love for people of Israel!

[@user-yg4pu7to9f]

Very interesting how through war, peace, and fellowship words live on forever. I believe with Persia being a vast empire it had to be a vacuum for words from all the different cultures inside of the realm from the Elamites, Medes, Egyptians, Byzantines, Babylonians etc... In my opinion without the Persians history of the ancient world would be lost, they have been in the middle of the majority of major history in the world, and it lives on through their customs and culture.

[@BarondeCastro]

Beautiful!!!! Thank you very much!!!!

[@MohammedAhmed-ts6jz]

as an arab, i can understand most of words mentioned.

[@parsagholampour6009]

Arabic is geographically between Persian and Hebrew. So it clearly has something in common with both.

[@odaenathus7825]

Because most of them are Arabic words.

[@BGold_Animation]

loved it! btw, i noticed that the persian DAFTAR (word for notebook) is a name of a household brand here in israel for a notebook company, everyone here had a DAFTAR notebook when he was a kid. so that was a cool thing to note. another cool thing i noticed was the word DUSHMAN, which translates to enemy, i know that word from another i language i speak which is romanian, the word DUSMANI (written in romanian) has the same translation. i believe it reached there, as many other words through the turkish occupation. Thanks a lot for these great videos, i love these a lot! Love from israel!

[@jesseshadrack9326]

We say "Pilipili" for pepper "busu" for kissing "Mhandisi" a builder who uses geometry to build a house In Kiswahili- East Africa

[@jesseshadrack9326]

H S which country are you from?

[@elishevak.8637]

"Pardess" means orchard in Hebrew and I think it is a Persian word which entered other languages as "paradise". Does it mean garden in Persian? The word "dat" entered Hebrew from the "Book of Esther" which part of the Bible. I have friends who are Persian Jews. The videos you make are really impressive.! How do you manage to learn so much about so many languages.

[@jesseshadrack9326]

Elisheva K. We say 'Paradiso' in Swahili- East Africa

[@manipirooz5806]

The word exists in the Persian language but for garden we commonly use 'baagh' and pardess is often pronounced as fardoss instead. But it is still in the vocabulary.

[@marcelomeireles2114]

Book of Esther that took place in Shushan, capital of Persia. Even Esther is her Persian name, meaning Star (eSTeR/STaR). Her Hebrew name is in fact Hadassah.

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

Marcelo Meireles Probably both are made-up names referring to Ishtar (Esther) and her symbol Myrtle (Hadas).

[@elishevak.8637]

@@jesseshadrack9326 interesting!

[@yigitaganoglu188]

I don't know why I feel the need to do this :) But the common words in Turkish are: tandır -> oven (one that is dug into the ground) fil -> elephant hardal -> mustard buse -> kiss sükut -> silence hendese -> geometry The last three words are outdated and rarely used. Love from Turkey. Stay home, stay safe everyone...

[@nofire8658]

sakin var oda sukuneten turedi sanrim arapça bir kelime

[@TauseefKhan-ei8mz]

Pakistan 🇵🇰. All the words you wrote are same in Urdu ......only fil is called Hathi. Tandir is Tandour here. Hardal is turmeric here

[@anankedell]

Iranic speakers and turkic speakers from central Asia all the way to Mediterranean mixed. I am Qhashghai turk tribe from central iran.

[@hamidr609]

We also use Tandir with the same meaning (an underground oven for cooking bread) in Mazandarani language, a local language in northern Iran.

[@arpr7043]

@Abbul Files those words are mostly Persian some are Arabic

[@lunarbike]

-fil(elephant) , -hardal(mustard) , -sükut( silence) [mostly used in literature, poem] -buse(kiss)[mostly used in Literature and poem too] words are using in modern Turkish...

[@alissa6]

And these words all come from Arabic.

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

I love how you are proud of your iranian roots, culture and religion, not the arabic one. God bless you, Bahador! Love from Indonesia🖤

[@mdlunasofficial7478]

Oh!! Bahador has arab roots?

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@@mdlunasofficial7478 I wish that one day Bahador does a Y-DNA test in order to identify his real root.

[@mubashirhakeem9466]

Very interesting episode

[@MrBarcadz]

Very good work

[@anarrzayev1524]

Good Job!

[@syedaliiftikhar]

Very interesting video

[@Underachievr]

Hey i am a big fan of your videos and i know that it is really hard to find these nationalities but i would like to see you compare tunisian dialect with maltese

[@aharonha]

You might be familiar with the scroll of Esther, as a period of the Jewish history, happened in Persian empire of Ahasuerus. One word you have mentioned in this video is דת DAT, which exits many times in the Esther scroll. I believe we may see more similarities in it. Maybe some month names like Nissan, Sivan, Addar....

[@BahadorAlast]

Yes, and in Iran we have the tomb of Esther, which is a major pilgrimage site. Many people are unaware of the fact that under the Persian Achaemenid Empire there was an autonomous Jewish state, that had the freedom to have its own religion, maintain Hebrew and Aramaic as its languages, and Persian kings facilitated the construction of the second Temple in Jerusalem. Throughout this period of 200 years, Jews and Persians had a lot of interactions and influenced one another linguistically and culturally. That came to an end when Alexander attacked the region.

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

Aharon Ha those month names are actually Babylonian

[@aharonha]

KedemHai, you are right.

[@bortol5113]

It’s two years now but for more common words you mentioned at the end, here are a few more: Parses and Bustan from Persian to Hebrew Sheipur (shofar) and Palesht (peleshti) from Hebrew to Persian. There is also Kivun in Hebrew (meaning :direction) which is related to Keyvan in Persian, used for the planet Saturn these days (pointing a direction in the sky for navigators maybe?). Anyway, a few suggestions.

[@katharinahuth4242]

Hi guys very interessting . Thanks and send You many springtime Greetings from Germany .

[@user-gi4sp9xt5g]

Love it!

[@felicytatomaszewska2934]

tanur (tanoor in Urdu and tandoor in Punjabi ) also mean oven especially the made from clay and normally dug in the ground or an elevated platform.

[@muhammadalfatih2640]

is that where the name Chicken Tadoori comes from?

[@nashmi-8609]

arabic too

[@user-qr3kx8mo8d]

Can a Persian speaker differentiate between the words ipod and ipad when pronounced with Persian accent? to me both sound like they are saying "ay-paad" or "ay-puud" or something in between

[@koseku3]

as a turk, persians sounds very soft and stable to me

[@Andrij_Kozak]

Moruk I disagree.

[@sonofpersia4780]

@@dariomoreno9267 Everyone says Persian sounds soft , you say that's rude for you !! Lmao

[@yfk1989]

Son of Persia I think this is not a bad thing. Because, everyone hear a different language with their native language. So it is possible that they can understand persian as a tough language. It depends on your mother tongue. This is not something to take offense. This doesn’t make persian less. I love iranian people, but I agree that persian sounds rather tough to me as well😉

[@toxicrhythmz3718]

@@yfk1989 Turkish sounds like a weird mish mash / hybrid language to me...Persian sounds very smooth / melodic / Old

[@missgizemk.8643]

As a Turkish person, the sound of persian is softer for me (i like it). It reminds me a little bit to Indian or Punjabi language.

[@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322]

The word Paradise.... Persian and Hebrew as well as their peoples and cultures have long history together for thousands of years. From the numerous Exiles from judea to assyria during persian or assyrian empires, like the story of Esther in Susa. I honestly believe that Persian Zoroastrian beliefs influenced Jewish Monotheism and Christian/Islamic beliefs subsequently. Khuda hafeez.

[@odaenathus7825]

There is no Hebrew culture. There is no Hebrew people as well.

[@corinna007]

I have an idea for a future video once you're able to record again: Finnish vs. Estonian. (I've been learning Finnish for the past few years, and it's a really fascinating language.)

[@YaakovVeYosefMechonit]

@Bahador Alast *PLEASE* use individual microphones for each speaker! It is very difficult to hear the slight differences in pronunciation. Wall echoes and background noise. Will you do this for us viewers, my fellow Torontonians?

[@BahadorAlast]

I will do my best ;)

[@YaakovVeYosefMechonit]

​@@BahadorAlast !!!WAU!!! Wow Thank you! Blessings & SHALOM Peace SALAM

[@user-re3zu1yj3z]

חיבבתי, יש לי אהבה על פרסי, ברצוני ללמוד יום אחד בגלל כורש. אהבתי ואנא תמשיכו עם עבודה שלכם!

[@thirimamunidineka7254]

I really interesting to this. I love Hebrew and Persian 🇮🇱🇮🇷.

[@nosaalkinani6304]

In my village they still make oven from glay تنور 😍

[@Majd.sh162]

איזה יופי כמה מילים דומות בין עברית לפרסית!!

[@user-lk4ol3wq7p]

In dialects people still say پیل Also گسپند، اسپند، سپید and so on

[@sathyare4163]

Hello please crate a video about romance languages Italian Spanish,Portuguese, Romanian thanks

[@bendover8689]

The Persians infulenced early Judiasm and the Jewish people a LOT which many people may not realise. After Cyrus freed the Jewish people in babylon many of the Jews then went back and brought many cultural Persian practises and even religious practises back to Judea.

[@hoathanatos6179]

Also a lot of Jews have always lived in Mesopotamia and it was under Persian control under the Parthian/Arshaki and Sasanian Empires when most of these words entered Hebrew and Aramaic.

[@attomicchicken]

Would Cyrus have been a follower of Zoroastrianism?

[@tessa7831]

As a Hebrew learner, I find this video extremely interesting, thank you! :)

[@Razaak666]

"Persian sounds like Hebrew with a heavy Russian accent" I'd be interested to know how she reacts to a Tajik (or Uzbek Persian) speaker, with that response.

[@pierreabbat6157]

I know דת from both Esther and Daniel (it's in the Aramaic part). שש is a false cognate; the word has the same sound and meaning by coincidence. What about זמן (time)?

[@dialmightyspartangod6717]

Oh I was waiting for this. Wait wait wait a damn minute is that SHARZARD. Hey Queen. Long time no see.

[@shahrzadddd]

Hi! Yes that's me 😊💓💓

[@dialmightyspartangod6717]

Shahrzad Pe welcome back

[@HM-jl6ut]

🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱 our friends since 2500 years ago 😊. Our people have deep friendshep, Persian and Jews.

[@jerkyswiner2158]

Yes Love to the Persian people 🇮🇱🇮🇷

[@muhammadmakhdoom4156]

Yoooo u shud make a vid of dna tests for every crew member

[@missgizemk.8643]

"Fil" in Turkish means also elephant, but if we say in Turkish "pil" it means battery

[@nofire8658]

hhghghgh araplardan bize geçti fil kelimesi araplar pyi soylemezler pil kelimeside fransizca yalniz bizim dilde ne kadar yabanci kelimeler var

[@eransasson20]

Interestingly, "pile" also means battery in French 😉

[@missgizemk.8643]

@@eransasson20 yeah I think it's originally french. We have some french loanwords in Turkish.

[@rancohen4997]

Love your videos. 'Dat' also means law in Hebrew. Its common for 'religion' because of the religion laws... Keep doing man. All the best.

[@elimalinsky7069]

Shesh is a curious case of coincidence. The Persian word comes from a native Indo-European root and the Hebrew word comes from a native Afroastiatic root. Both languages developed the same sound for the numeral six completely separately.

[@ghaliblouay]

Grrreaaatt..🙏🌹❣️

[@aliner1546]

Actually the word Dat in old Hebrew also meant "law". But over time (especially with the arrival of modern Hebrew) it has become the synonym for Religion because Hebrew didn't have a word for it and Dat was barely used. And the word Law has other synonyms like Din, Hok, Mishpat and even Pitgam. It is also important to mention that the letter R does exist in Hebrew, less than 70 years ago most jews in Europe and the Middle East used a more spanish sounding R, and only later its use was reduced. Also, most Jews in Israel are Mizrahi but nowadays they pronounce the letter R Like French just like any other, the only ones who keep using that R are either very old Mizrahi Jews or new immigrants from Russia/former Soviet Union. Anyway, The video was really nice and you can definitely see that a lot of the words here are related to each other through the Arabic language (:

[@BahadorAlast]

Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing :)

[@SfCfA2R4L0E0T]

Aline R as far as I know the word “Dat” did not exist in Old Hebrew. The word “Din” (דין) In ancient Hebrew meant ‘to give’, only later it assumed the meaning of law in the context of what you were given, allowed by the law (the king or judge in that sense). “Hok” (חק) in ancient Hebrew meant ‘constant’ and has nothing to do with Din. “Mishpat” (משפט) means to weigh. You can see how those are different aspects of today’s law and order but in the language sense they are not synonyms. “Pitgam” I believe is yet another Persian word.

[@aliner1546]

KedemHai Dat exists in the Hebrew Bible as well, it meant Law but now it is just Religion and all of the translations of it is Law. So is with Hok (it has other meanings too). Mishpat and Pitgam literally mean Sentence but they used to be synonymous with the word law since they are both belong to the same subject. Din is still used a lot even in Modern Hebrew, especially for religious purposes.

[@avishaiedenburg1102]

There's a pretty old Hebrew word for wizard: אמגוש- amagosh, which I believe comes from Persian.

[@HagarEfroni]

I love your videos!!!! Much love from Israel

[@FermatWiles]

Mahtab is BEAUTIFUL!

[@Berkana]

Is there a connection between the Persian word "tannur" (oven) and the Indian tandoor?

[@farzanjacob8726]

Hi blessed people I'm from Washington state USA Urdu speaking but many words you are discussing also used in Urdu and Punjabi languages.

[@11_sohamvaidya53]

Sadly, Israelis & Iranians can't travel to each others country to see their roots...😓

[@MsxAlRox22]

Please do a Hebrew and Amharic, Hebrew and Persian🙏

[@ArniPara]

Ahhh, India also retained all the P sounds from Farsi. Parsi, Polad, Peel etc. In Marathi we don't use the word peel for elephant, but we use 'peelkhana' for elephant stables! You had a few words in there that went from old Iranian to Arabic and came back to Farsi... How interesting :) And I'd read in an etymological dictionary that the root of the word Hendeseh is based on the fact that its knowledge came to Persia and Arabia from India (I'll try to dig up the reference book).

[@ArniPara]

For a balanced take on the matter, here's a link to another root of the word Hendeseh, which is supposedly from the Farsi word andazeh: Page 468 of the book books.google.co.uk/books?id=P_jRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP3&lpg=PP3&dq=Arabic+word+hendeseh&source=bl&ots=Q3PKUxfeQm&sig=ACfU3U017ykNonSw8_esH_fjDq-AoyiASQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiD6LmhgMLoAhVOilwKHbaeB7MQ6AEwCXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Thanks :)

[@medianempire8685]

Glad to hear that your daughter is going to have a brother-sister Kids love babies 🌸🌸🌸

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you :)

[@sprachelebengermany4577]

We have the word in german which is called: Donner, which means thunder,and in persian tondar(تندر).What I have learned in persian,if something is very spicy ,or hot,you also say tond(تند) or someone is talking very fast, would be: u kheyly tond harf mizane ( او خیلی تند حرف می زند) and the Indian dishes , which is called tandoori ( something made in the oven) if you look at these connections,it so interesting to see and explore that all these languages have somethings in common,you wouldn't imagine,that those words may have the same roots.Thursday in german is:"Donnerstag" if you go into Wikipedia,you will find out,it derives from the Germanic God Thor/Donar,who was sending his lightning strikes to the earth with his hammer.So it always comes back to,it always has something to do with" heat"!!😀🔥

[@suren2313]

Pity that you’re not making videos because of the coronavirus 🙁 I love your wonderful content guys

[@BahadorAlast]

We will soon! Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon :)

[@kamilkashaf2766]

In Pakistan, we also have the word Folad (فولاد) in Urdu for steel. I think English word "Folate" as in Folic acid (Vitamin B) comes from the same Indo-European root, because it has a similar benefits for the human body as consuming Iron rich foods does. Linguistics is such a fascinating subject.

[@meowmeow609]

can you please make similarities between arabic and maltese, its so similar, thank u much love!!!

[@Just4Kixs]

Yo this is pretty cool

[@MaziarPersian]

Dad in Persian also means to help and justice : Be dadem omad = She/he came to my help. Dad-khahi = Asking for the right/ for the justice.

[@assyriantv7232]

Daad in Persian also means "given/gave" and bagh means "garden" in which Baghdad means "given garden" and yet I have also an understanding that "Bagh" also can mean GOD which would make it "GOD given". Love your videos and love all you people here.

[@Abilliph]

Daad as given, is the origin of the English word data. Since it's given information.

[@ijansk]

The Spanish word for 'to give' is 'dar'.

[@louisnisa4716]

Many of the words you mentioned in Persian, I learnt in the Talmud, written in Aramaic but with a mix of many other languages, including Persian and Greek. Very interesting video, but the sentence the Persian woman got in Hebrew was difficult, as it contains a composite שיעורי בית , the genetive form of Shiurim, plural of lessons, and bait, house, which combined means homework, not so straightforward.

[@Sarawni]

As assyrian Aramaic speaker, I understood 90% of both hebrew and persian

[@ib3645]

Hi Sara, In the north of Israel there is a large community of Aramaic speaking christians. As far as I know: Maronite, Catholic and Greek orthodox. They were mistakenly registered as Arabs during the British mandate but are a seperate national minority in Israel. Here they are usually called Aramaeans because of their language. Assyrians/Aramaeans are not Arabs! Your ancestors lived on their land long before any Arab has ever set foot outside the Arabian peninsula. Keep your language, religion and culture alive. Love from Israel

[@ib3645]

@غزالة L Istra bilgina kish kish karya... אִסְתְּרָא בִּלְגִינָא קִישׁ קִישׁ קָרְיָא...

[@shehroze50]

@bahador Alast need video similarities btw hebrew and pashto

[@mohamad_sivan]

I always love ur videos🥰❤️.. Can you make the similarities between Kurdish (Kurmancî) and Tajiki or Afghani languages😍❤️❤️

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you, but Tajik is Persian and we have done a Persian-Kurdish video. As far as languages in Afghanistan, are you referring to Persian or Pashto? We have made a video with Kurdish and Pashto as well.

[@ghaliblouay]

Greatt..

[@sayajalandanmakan4549]

Ow! really? 'tanur' in Bahasa Indonesia🇮🇩 means big earthen/clay oven, but rarely heard in daily conversation. Mr. Bahadur your videos always amaze me 👍

[@175_muhammadyudhiarabbani9]

Really? Never heard of that word

[@AloysioWisnu]

Never heard that word

[@sayajalandanmakan4549]

@@175_muhammadyudhiarabbani9 kalu di buku2 sastra jaman sekolah sy prnh dgr ..tanur tinggi atau di fisika kimia juga kok tanur untuk merebus larutan kimia dst.makanya istilah klasik yg ngga sehari2 dipake. Bs cek di KBBI atau google. Ada kok tanur dlm bhs indonesia id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanur

[@sayajalandanmakan4549]

@@AloysioWisnu @Muhammad Yudhia kalu di buku2 sastra jaman sekolah sy prnh dgr ..tanur tinggi atau di fisika kimia juga kok tanur untuk merebus larutan kimia dst.makanya istilah klasik yg ngga sehari2 dipake. Bs cek di KBBI atau google. Ada kok tanur dlm bhs indonesia id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanur

[@Yedo25254]

reza lutfi tanur same thing in Somali language