Similarities Between Russian and Persian

In this language challenge episode, two Russian speakers, Alex and Bogdan, compete against two Persian speakers, Sara and Amir. There are some intriguing similarities between the two languages that may surprise a lot of people. Although one is a Slavic language and the other is Iranian, due to the historical interactions between them, Russian and Persian have adopted several words from one another. Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Russian is the most widely spoken of all Slavic languages, with a very significant number of speakers in Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, and to a lesser extent, the other post-Soviet states. Russian and Persian are both Indo-European languages, and Russian, being a Slavic language, is one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages. The Persian language, which at times is referred to by its endonym Farsi, is a Western Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It holds official status in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is referred to as Dari in Afghanistan, and Tajik in Tajikistan. It is also widely spoken in other parts of the Central Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia. Among the neighbouring empires and nations, Persian was considered a prestigious cultural language and over the course of centuries it influenced many of these neighbouring languages, such as the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, neighboring Iranian languages, as well as Armenian, Georgian, and Indo-Aryan languages, especially Urdu. It also exerted some influence on Arabic, particularly the Bahrani and Iraqi dialects of Arabic. Persian was the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing, and the writing of poetry in Persian was established as a court tradition in many eastern courts. Persian and Russian have also influenced one another, not to the same extent as the aforementioned languages, but the influence and similarities are noteworthy. Historical contacts between Russia and Iran have consisted of collaboration and rivalry. Iranians and Russians have a very long history of geographic, economic, and socio-political interaction.
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[@BahadorAlast]

Based on your suggestions, the definition of the word does not appear on the screen prior to the participants guessing. This way the audience can play along as well. Enjoy the video and contact us on Instagram for any feedback or suggestions. Shahrzad (@shahrzad.pe): instagram.com/shahrzad.pe Bahador (@BahadorAlast): instagram.com/BahadorAlast Bogdan (@bogdanbandalak): instagram.com/bogdanbandalak Sara (@sara_sohrabi): instagram.com/sara_sohrabi Definitely make sure to check out Amir’s channel: kzbin.info/door/7_oVT2tswppsrnxE1YbS3g For all of Sara’s fans, this will most likely be her last video until after the summer. She’s going to Iran for 4 months. If you happen to be in her hometown of Shiraz and would like an awesome lady to show you the incredible beauty of the city, send her a message

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thank you Bahador jan! :)

[@AmirYazdanian]

Amir Tavassoly Afarin agha. 👍🏻

[@TAVideos786]

Bahador Alast. The word CHAI is used for Tea in Pakistan and India. I want to ask Russians if the word CHAI was originated in Russia.

[@Manseth]

Bahador Alast Please never stop making such beautiful , informative videos .It's a lot of information .Thank you very much.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thanks so much guys, and thank you Amir for joining us for this video! Hope to do it again soon :)

[@MarkLee1]

- Small animal you find in your hous sometimes. - Husband. 😂

[@ddeddede1214]

)))

[@olya_17]

😂😂😂🙌

[@mountaineer2393]

if you don't speak any Slavian language you'll probaply hard to understand. After the first clue, he immediately said "a rat", and then more accurately 'a mouse'

[@Ahmed-ii7up]

I am fucking dead man! LMFAO

[@user-io9lq2jn5w]

T I sad

[@noname-dp3gn]

*Says anything* Russians: "We also use it to offend people."

[@fryktenogmennesket]

Ha-ha, exactly, in Russian you can turn almost any word into an insult to a person!

[@shoshuz1180]

Just like in other languages

[@zztopz7090]

@@shoshuz1180 That's true. At least with English and Russian, lot of common words are used as insults.

[@shoshuz1180]

@@zztopz7090 Yeah, almost everyone does it but for some reason when it comes to Russian, it must be described as rude, aggressive and etc. I think this kind of thinking about others is a huge problem in today's world.

[@geminix365]

In Spanish we use even milk to insult

[@elimalinsky7069]

The Russian guy's name, Bogdan, is cognate with the city of Baghdad, which is Middle Persian for "God given". The Russian meaning is exactly the same. The shared Indo-European roots are very clear in some cases like this one.

[@danielvanr.8681]

The name Bogdan is used in Romanian, too. One of countless Slavic inloans. 😎🇹🇩🇲🇩

[@ban1176]

Bogdan is used in Serbia too.

[@giornogiovanna228]

Эй Богдан Богдан богом дан Богдан

[@agostocobain2729]

that's cool good job man.

[@wowok2rlover581]

Intinya ngaps semua asal dari nabi Adam 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿

[@servantofaeie1569]

The Indo-European language family is just awesome!

[@joikgirl]

@FichDichInDemArsch well, the indo- european family is the biggest in the world and its really diverse, covering so many countries and territories, also having different writing systems, having grammatical cases and so on. Not everything is boring like English. For the second half, i agree, other language families should have more research done but that the thing with small languages. I do think that linguistics should be a much bigger scientific field and i would love to have a job in the future that is centered around languages and cultures.

[@Vlad-jg2ku]

FichDichInDemArsch surprise surprise, western linguists (who are European) like to study their own language. You’re acting as if they are have a responsibility to study anything other than what interests them. I guarantee you that the Sino-Tibetan languages are studied, but they’re studied by the people that speak those languages. People study what they have some sort of connection with, or interest in. It’s not really surprising that most European linguists don’t have a connection to a culture that is thousands of miles away. Similarly, I would bet that most East Asian linguists aren’t researching European languages.

[@sosa7254]

FichDichInDemArsch shut up you Gypsy Indo european languages are amazing

[@Vlad-jg2ku]

@FichDichInDemArsch lol ok buddy. Bias is not the same thing as interest, and there's a huge difference between being interested in something, and being biased against something. Linguists don't study the language they're interested in? Having an interest in a particular language says nothing of how good a linguist a person is. It just tells us a likely direction for them. As an analogy. An student interested in chemichal engineering will likely become a chemical engineer. That fact that they don't have an equal interest in mechanical or electrical engineering says nothing about how good they will be at their job. Where do you think the top Mandarin linguists are from? I'm betting China. While work on minor languages is also important, there is more demand and availablity to study the language of the culture a person is in. Not to mention that native speakers will likely be way better at studying a language than non natives will.

[@beback_]

@@Vlad-jg2ku There are linguists from any background studying any family. Nilo-Saharan I think is the only family that's understudied due to being "too obscure". Ultra nationalists don't usually go for a linguistics PhD.

[@bogdanbandalak1470]

Thank you Bahador for inviting us! I had so much fun!

[@BahadorAlast]

Bogdan Bandalak My pleasure! Thank you for joining us! It was awesome! Would love to do it again with other languages! Thanks again and hope to see you soon! 👍

[@Mokh7777]

They didn't tell you the etymology of your name is Iranian. Bog+dan= God + given, in ancient Iranian languages like Baghdad (Where Iran used to have its capital before arab arrival there)

[@TheAlexNem]

Такое ощущение,что слова специально подобраны и согласованы или я ошибаюсь?

[@user-jc2lx4ye6x]

Not so Iranian.Indo-european maybe, cuz words Bog and dan(dat') have another slavic languages and maybe(idk really) germanic and latin languages.

[@hzhzfzfz8451]

Mesopotamia has always been semitic.

[@middleeastarmenia407]

This one feels weird. Being Armenian and us being very influenced by both these languages I understand all these words.

[@maxkho00]

@Александр Actually, all of the words in the video apart from the numbers were common borrowings from different languages, which is quite disappointing.

[@asherngoma8934]

@@salrafi I would never have thought of that. Pretty intriguing. Amharic and Armenian are linked?

[@ObserverEffect-xp4dk]

Armenian is influenced by persian but not Russian. Russian is influenced too

[@mypronounismom1056]

Bulgarian here. So did I 😅 But according to some of my research, our archaic words are tied to Sanscrit , through Persian and Slavic. So, yes, all Indo-European languages are quite close when you hear the root word in context

[@hannanpakthini7221]

When I first heard Russian news on Radio, I thought it to be Farsi. Both have similar pronunciation, different meaning terms. Dasth dhaniya= Thank u in Russian. In Farsi Dasth= Hand, Dhaniya= known one

[@AmirTavassoly]

It was sooo fun being in this video! Thanks for having me Bahador jan and Shahrzad jan. Great video as always 😊💚

[@TAVideos786]

Amir Tavassoly. I just subscribed to your KZbin channel. I am a Pakistani American, and my native language is Urdu. About two thousand years ago Urdu was originated in northern parts of India, and its original name "Kharbali". Urdu is a combined native language of Northern Indian and of Urdu ethnic group of Pakistan. The Urdu is a Turkish word which means "Regiment." Urdu has Farsi, Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit, and English words while Hindi doesn't. Urdu is also the National Language of Pakistan, because it can be spoken by all Pakistani regardless of their ethnicity. Pakistani race is a mixture of Indian, Persian, Afghan, Arab, Tajik, Georgian, Turkish, Mongol, and Aryan.

[@BahadorAlast]

Amir Tavassoly Thank you for joining us Amir jan! We loved having you be a part of it and hope to do it again in the summer!! Waiting for your next video!!

[@BahadorAlast]

TA Videos Awesome! You'll love Amir's channel!!

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thanks to you both 😊😊

[@shakelhf]

Dear Amir, thank you for the participation. I whatched with sincere pleasure. In my youth I was very much like you. So when I watched this video, I saw myself there. My sensations are inexpressible! Now in Russia, you have at least one friend. Amir, goodness, happiness and good luck to you. Best regards from St. Petersburg.

[@bukharianboy]

Tajik speakers would have fun with this!

[@bukharianboy]

As a speaker of Russian, Judeo-Tajik, and Central Asian Persian (Tajik) I find this incredibly easy and significant! It would be cool to do a Persian dialects contest like Afghan Persian vs Tajik Persian and or Iranian Persian vs Tajik lol

[@BahadorAlast]

bnwwf91 That would be great! I'd love to organize it for a future video!!

[@bukharianboy]

Bahador Alast sounds cool! I’ll be looking for it! Salomat boshī! Porsizabonhoi hamai dunyo yak shavand!

[@BahadorAlast]

bnwwf91 Sepasgozaram! It would've been great if you could be here to join us for a video. The Tajik speakers I know aren't fluent enough to participate, but I am hoping to find the right candidate for it:)

[@bukharianboy]

haha you're in Canada right? I'm in Miami lol

[@user-qr2uf1so4v]

когда понимаешь и персидский и русский.... быть таджиком это круто

[@badfyrepytweed3374]

not really

[@user-sx8xk8ex2t]

Бале, аммо форсию точики каме фарк доранд... زبان فارسی از زبان تاجیکی شیرینتره)

[@bloggingpersians7267]

Кайрос Босконович забони точики ин худ забони форси, камтар таариха бхон хеело хуб меша

[@user-xz9eu8lq8f]

@@badfyrepytweed3374 Really

[@zoiiiluyyh4485]

@@lioshenka персы-то поймут

[@cyberbabkaaa]

As a Russian speaker I was surprised tbh, I would never think there are so many similarities between such different languages. Linguistics is the greatest thing in the entire world

[@The3DProjects]

There aren’t . They just came from Persia the words .

[@avadhutagita3741]

@@The3DProjects Russian Cossacks lived in Persia, that is, we can rightfully say that these words came from Russia. But this is also not true, because these are just similarities between the Indo-European language (one language with different dialects). There are many versions, there are Kalash people. There are white rishis who brought the Vedas to India (who passed through Persia). The story can be viewed from different angles.

[@e.b.4379]

Russian is a Slavic language in the Indo-European family, to which Persian belongs - different branch but Persian and Russian belong to the same language group.

[@elaypegah1013]

It was so funny, thank you😍 Love to Russia from Iran ❤️❤️

[@berikkarabala8825]

Shoma heili zabo estid gashank hastid hanuuum!

[@Artishtar]

@@berikkarabala8825 😂

[@gringo6362]

Iranian girls are beautiful

[@elaypegah1013]

@@gringo6362 Thank you 🙏

[@rzkgb4146]

The purpose of your channel is great. It is finding/creating similarity/union instead of difference/division. I could guess almost all words in this video. Keep up the good work.

[@BahadorAlast]

Rz kgb Thank you so much! I really appreciate that:)

[@Evecaliaz]

Waited for a russian and persian video. Mersi/спасибо !

[@mahsagold6187]

💟❤

[@liebesaenliebeernten9418]

"Merci" ist French. The proper Persian word for thanking someone is "spas"/"sepas". Identical almost to the Russian "spasibo".

[@user-hz9pr9zz9x]

for me very intersting because i know persian and russian

[@user-sg3km7ye5u]

мохсен Амини много общего у нас друг и далеко не в языках, а в сволочах правящих в наших странах.

[@Manseth]

That's amazing man

[@BahadorAlast]

мохсен Амини Thank you! Yeah, I figured you'd enjoy this one :) Thanks for watching!

[@eipiplusone3791]

Пыня И Димасик он говорил не о Украине, а о России ;)

[@user-hz9pr9zz9x]

точно друг !

[@Lifeisasecret-]

I speak Polish and Russian and can understand many Persian words. ♥️

[@The3DProjects]

That’s because they’re persian .

[@shervinalexander5551]

That’s because 3 of them are Indo-European which means they’re the same

[@jamjar1948]

Thank you very much Bahador-jan! There are so many similarities between Persian and Russian that I want to add here: Like: Too in Persian and Ty in russian (means You) Man in Persian and Mne in russian (means me): Ma in Persian and Mi in russian (means we) Zemin in Persian, zemlya in russian (earth in english) Zist in Persian and Zhizn in russian (means living), and all the related verbs are very similar Bagh (or Bag) in old Persian (and poems), and Bog in Russian (means God), the name of the Baghdad city comes from the word Bagh, means given by God Sepas in Persian, and Espasiba in Russian (means thanks) An and On in Persian, and On in Ona in Russian (means He and she) Kodam in Persian, Kakoy in Russian (means which) Bradar in Persian, Brat in Russian (means Brother) Dokhtar in Persian, Davoushka in Russian (means Daughter) Maman in Persian, Mama in Russian (means Mom/mother) Na in Persian and Net in Russian (means no or not) We (Persians) put Na and Ne before the verbs to make negative verbs. Russians put Ne also before the verbs to do the same thing. Both languages also make the meanings of the other types of the words (like adverbs) negative in the same way. Example for a verb: Man Ne-Mi-khaham (in Persian), Ya Ne Khachoo in Russian (means I do not want) Ne in both language came to make the verb negative also the verb Want in both languages start with the same characters (Kha)! It seems both from the same origin: For the word Want in English if you want to find the translation of the Noun form in Persian and Russian, it would be: Khastan in Persian and Khotite in Russian Also there are similar is using the verb to be: Bood and Boodan in Persian, Byt in Russian (Means to be) For example in Persian We say Bood (means was), russian says Bylo another example: Persian: Man khaham bood Russian: Ya Budo (means: I will be) sometime the Conjunctions are the same: "To you" in English is: "Be To" in Persian "TiBe" in Russian! When both languages want to say someone belongs to a city, country, or region, they add "ee" sounds at the very end, it is mostly the case in Persian, in russian usually something else comes before "ee" For example: Irani in Persian, and Iransky in Russian (means Iranian in english) Russi in Persian, Russki in Russian (means Russian in english ) Sibiry in Persina, Sibirisky in Russinan (means Siberian in english) I also realized so many words which have the same meanings, starts with the same character or characters! like: Kashti in persian, Karbl in russian (Means ship) There so many similar numbers also other than what mentioned in the video Do in Persian, Dva in Russian (means two) Chahar in Persian, Chetyre in Russian (means four) Panj in Persian, Pyat in Russian (means five) Sad in Persian, Sto in Russian (means 100) you mentioned 200 and also 6 before! Chahar sad in Persian, Chetyre Sotni in Russian (400) There are very similar for 500 Shesh-Sad in Persian and Shestsod in Russian (600) and I guess there are so many other similarities that I might not know.

[@jamjar1948]

As you also said in the video Koja in Persian and Koda in Russian (means where in English)

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you :)

[@shakelhf]

Khorasan Iran, I will define more precisely a bit. In Russaan: "kogdA" - when "kudA" - where to

[@jamjar1948]

Thanks shakelhf, I want to add more to it: Who in Persian is Ko or Ki, in Russian is KTO dead in Persian is Morde, in Russian is Mertvykh Die in Persian is Mordan, in Russian is umeret' "I die" in Persian is "Mordam", in Russian is "umer" Wife in Persian is "Zan", in Russian is "Zhena" Husband in Persian is "Mard", in Russian is "Myzh" from in Persian is "Az", in Russian is "OT" or "Za", Za is also used in some of the Iranian languages other than Persian. without you: in Persian: "Bi to", in russian: "Bez Teba" The other verb: Ask (n)- in Persian "Porsidan" - in russian is "Prosit" you ask - in Persian "Be-pors"- in russian is "Prosi"- russian pronounce it as "Perosi"

[@yayayeahyeah6606]

Khorasan-jan, what a great job you've done.

[@JoeyDediashvili]

An interesting fact: The Ossetians (North+South Ossetians ) of Russia and the Caucasus are a proto-Iranian peoples (called Alans) who migrated north and settled in Georgia and Russia. They still speak a dialect of Farsi.

[@Arevapasht]

It is not a dialect, is an eastern Iranic language, very different from Persian. And they rather migrated to the South than north, because the Indo-Iranians came from the Caspian steppes and migrated to the south. Ossetian is related to Yaghnobi and Pashto and just distantly to Farsi

[@pamirbadakhshan9934]

Arevapasht There are four Eastern Iranic people, ossetians, yaghnobis, pamirians, pashtuns. And you are right, Ossetian language isn’t dialect but separate Iranic language, eastern Iranic language. I’m pamirian our language is eastern Iranic language too.

[@Arevapasht]

@@pamirbadakhshan9934 Yes exactly, i just was in a hurry, there are even more than just these 4. Pamirian languages are several, but culturally Pamrian people are related, although the words of some Pamirian languages do not seem that close. It is a big problem that Pamirians get just stamped as Tajiks or in the best case as Pamirians. As it does not reflect the richness of your languages . It is actually fascinating how many different languages exist on such a small territory like the Pamirs. But there are other languages too. There are the Parachi and Baraki people, who speak Parachi and Ormuri, both eastern Iranian languages as far as i know. Wanetsi, is also sometimes considered a separate language from Pashto,although their speakers identify as pashtuns

[@berzengi1]

I'm so curious 2 see a comparison between osetian and any Persian dialect!

[@user-fh4gf2iq9o]

@Niso Stannard, иронцы и аланы.

[@AmirYazdanian]

Hello friends, I don't usually leave comments, but I need to say that last night I was watching some videos on KZbin and stumbled upon the number 200 in Russian and it sounded so similar to the one in Persian so I looked up online and read a little more about the Russian language and today as I woke up I got the notification from your channel and here it was, the video regarding similarities between Russian and Persian 😄 Thank you for another great video.

[@BahadorAlast]

Amir Yazdanian That's amazing Amir jan!!! What a coincidence! :)

[@AmirYazdanian]

Bahador Alast Yes indeed 😍

[@monstrbb]

Sorry, gentlemen, but it isn't a coincidence, because both languages are Indo-European, and this is archaic word preserved in both languages, though it could be named a coincidence in sense that in both languages the word happened no to mutilate too much to loose mutual understandablity :)

[@SanketPatole]

In sanskrit 200 - dwi shat Mouse - Mushak

[@valeral92]

As a Russian speaker, I will add: Persian "Az Khoja" is similar to Russian because "iz" means "from" in Russian, and "kuda" means a direction in Russian. So if instead of "otkuda" (where from) we said "izkuda" then that would be even closer to Persian :)

[@jamjar1948]

Right, "Az" similar to "za" and "iz" in Russian means from. Almost all the question words in Persian and Russian are similar or very related. like the word meaning why in both languages. Persian: Che-ra or "az che" means from what (why). In Lori language which is one of the Iranian language sometimes considered as a Persian dialect it is "Za-che" in Lori language which means from what (why). Russian is: Zachem (or Pachimo) - "Za chto" if you break the words- they are the same words in both languages (even "chto" and "che" meaning what!). So, when it comes to question words and most of the pronouns, Persian and Russian seems to be different dialects of a same language! there are other huge similarities as well.

[@MemoryOfTheAncestors]

In Russian the word "что?" or "chto?" (what?) is grammatically correct in whole language, but in the Urals in the spoken language we often say "че?" or "cho?" instead "chto?".

[@jamjar1948]

​@@MemoryOfTheAncestors so it is like Persian, nice, so many similarities. Thank you Pavel! What in persian is "Che" or "Chi"! most of the question words in Persian starts with the character "K" same as Russian! for example: who: "Ki" in persian , "Kto" in russian. which- "Kodam" in Persian - Kakoy in Russian! When: "Key" in Persian - Kagda in Russian. where: "Koja" in Persian - Koda in Russian Very similar! If you are interested to see more similarities, search for my post in this page, you will see huge similarities! It is not complete yet.

[@pamirbadakhshan9934]

Val Lechner Rast (farsi) Right (english) Pravilno (russian)

[@balkanforestboy5040]

@@jamjar1948 In Bulgarian we also say "shto" (what) and "za-shto" (why).

[@maayanhaza6178]

I loved the people in this video, what a fun and cool bunch! All 4 seem like super awesome people to hang out with! :) Thanks for these lovely videos, helping us to learn about each other and cultural interactions that I don't see anywhere else! :)

[@sarafayeq464]

You deserve more subscribers really!!! love from Greece from an Afghan girl

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you dear! Really appreciate that :)❤

[@stevensteven4108]

Hi I'm interested

[@stevensteven4108]

Where in Greece yo are

[@AleksandarGospic]

Now it is much easier to see the difference or similarity with these subtitles, or should we say abovetitles :) Great people, great fun!

[@BahadorAlast]

Aleksandar Gospić Thank you!! :)

[@missbully6246]

I'm so glad I found this channel! I knew of the Russian and slavic language similarities, but never knew of any possible similar words between Persian and Russian. Thank you so much for doing these videos. I'm yearning for more!

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you so much! Really glad to hear that :) I hope you enjoy our future videos!!

[@rdtgr8]

Actually this is very small part of similarities, and many shown here were because of Russian borrowings or Persian borrowings, or other language borrowings in both languages. Unlike that Russian and Persian indeed have deep common basis. For example many Russian and Persian verbs in Imperative mode sound almost identical (differ only in additional -ai, -i endings in Russian): pomir-ai = bemir pozn-ai = bedon podai = bedeh posp-i = behob pozhr-i = behor poss-y = beshosh ;) pogovoR-i = begu potasch-i (more common: s-taschi) = bedozd poviazh-i (Polish style: povionzh-i) = beband poyav-i-s' ("appear yourself!") = beyob (beyaab) pover' = bovar bekon pliash-i = beraqs

[@ajoajoajoaj]

Slavic and Iranian are both distinct branches of the Indo-European family but are most closely related to Baltic (Latvian and Lithuanian) and Indo-Aryan (Hindi/Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, etc) respectively. They are as close to each other as either are to languages like English, German, French or Greek but have an edge over these Western languages in that they transform the prehistoric palatal consonants (think something sort of like a soft k or g in Russian) into jubilant sounds like j, s, z and sh instead of k and g like in Western European languages. This gives them a particular similarity to each other.

[@rdtgr8]

ajoajoajoaj, Yes but these common features (satemization, r.u.k.i. rule etc.) between these 4 branches are actually because it was the same language somewhen around 3600 to 3200 BC. Other branches of IE were already separated from they and had their own languages. It's also proved by the fact they all share R1a-Z645 clade (with calculated age of 5500 ybp or exactly 3500 BC). So you see it was a small group of people who talked the same language which we may call Satem language. All these 4 branches (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Slavic and Baltic) are descedants of this language.

[@user-xh8fr9zq2k]

Russian language it is influenced from other languages a lot

[@Ogi88]

Love and support Russia and Iran from Serbia 🇷🇸 ❤️! Forever on the same side!

[@kentwinstonmedia]

Да!

[@Sam1980aramesh]

Lots of love back from iran!

[@hosseinsadeghi2468]

@Weexxow no, he's a idiot pan-turkic, everyone knows him, he use different fake accounts

[@gringo6362]

Side of isolation and tyranny?

[@newpersia88]

Great as always thank you guys!

[@BahadorAlast]

Arash M Thank you Arash jan :)

[@sabirimapolyglotandlinguis7609]

I'm speaking in three languages, Persian, Russian, and English, it's good when you can understanding those people!

[@golkiwi8783]

What a collab !!!😙AMAZING ... so proud of you guys👍👏

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!! ❤❤❤

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thank you so much!! 😊💚

[@shahanshahpolonium]

i love how you provide more info and context in the description

[@Ali-sh6kh]

I like Amir a lot.He is always smiling and is full of life.

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thank you so much Ali, I really like you too 😃

[@abebabua7967]

Amir Tavassoly Wow It is awesome to find fellow Middle Easterners on KZbin . I'm a Woman of Iranian Mizrahi Jew Kurdish Ashkenazi Jew mixed Ancestry. I like your Videos and the Original Poster Videos. I have friends from Punjab India and Israel and Germany and Canada and United Arab Emirates. I'm in America Southern United States. I'm a Middle Easterner with a Southern Accent 😂.

[@Immehr]

8:11 In the province of Gilan in Iran, tomatoes are called pamadors.

[@denkodel6516]

On the Croatian coast we say Pamidor.

[@nimam81]

Great video! There are actually a lot more words that are similar in Farsi and Russian. My wife speaks Russian and I’m learning too. There have been many times when I heard something in Russian and could tell what it means because of similarities between Farsi and Russian. Surprisingly, Russians have common foods with similar names as well.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you so much! You're absolutely right Nima jan, there are even more similarities, we could have made an hour long video haha

[@rdtgr8]

You should try learning Ukrainian. It's even more similar to Persian than Russian. And also it has similar speaking tone with absense of reduced sounds and clear voiced pronunciation. Actually it's the same kind of pronunciation being used in your pop-music singing (you know AA = clear O etc., it differs in colloquial speaking). Also Ukrainian has both Zh and J (jerelo "spring, well", bjola "bee"), and it has softer Sh pronunciation than Russian. It also has less those Russian IE, IO - there are pure E, I instead (R. bi(e)riot, ni(e)siot ---> U. bere, nese). If Persian had less Arabic words I'm sure Ukrainians could understand it at some level because there are even the whole sentences to sound identically. For example "(Ty) mene vybach" = "Mano bebakhsh"

[@1doubtist]

rdtgr8, wow! how interesting! they seem too close...

[@ebrelus7687]

​@@rdtgr8 now I'm thinking how bjola is related to polish pszczoła 🤯🤯

[@nil0094]

That was fun to watch! By the way in Gilaki,the local language spoken in north of iran, we actually call tomato “pomdor” 😃

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you for watching! Wow! That's really interesting:)

[@shivankshah9799]

Mouse is called as Mooshak in Hindi !! How cool !! So many common words👌

[@BurningOrangeTV]

shivank shah mooshak is a word for missile in farsi

[@rdtgr8]

Mushak = (diminutive) Rus. Myshka, which is used even more frequently than formal Mysh (last one is more official or scientific)

[@sun4502]

No one calls it mooshak. It is more Sanskrit or Marathi I think they still call it Mooshak. In hindi most people call it "Chooha"

[@shivankshah9799]

sundance cassidy yes I think you are right ...I get confused sometimes because I have learnt both Hindi and Sanskrit

[@dionakgamer7769]

shivank shah in Nepali we call musa

[@sergeigaba575]

Very entertaining, totally enjoyed it 😁

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you for watching!! :)

[@greekkaralkinglordofathens1003]

We Greeks LOVE Persia! and Russia too.

[@kreesranches3671]

Leonidas doesnt love persia

[@ho3ein222]

@@kreesranches3671 this is for 2600 years ago we are friend❤

[@yeganeespahbod7944]

its been so long but I just wanted to tell u that we love you too ♥ from persia😍

[@hooman1122]

❤👍👌🙏

[@alinarashenko4521]

I'm Russian and i so much love Greece and Byzantine

[@teymursultanov8253]

You are doing great job bro i like your videos keep up.From Azerbaijan.

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

This is amazing!!!

[@mehdijahandar3391]

Loved it, and I can't stop watching your programs. You are amazing.

[@karachaybalkar]

Your videos is so alive and bright. Like it :)

[@aparham1358]

Thanks dude. It was great.

[@BahadorAlast]

Mohammad Kaka Thank you for watching!! :)

[@thisisjinpo]

thank you for this video. People should see that we are all have a lot in common.

[@BahadorAlast]

Eugene Polyakov Thank you! Yes, definitely brother! We have a lot in common. Much love!

[@jasminjaz6920]

Suchaaaaaaaa Loveelyyy vid.. fulll of energy and laughter😍❤❤❤

[@assyriantv7232]

I also pronounced chamadon as chamdoon. I love the fun all your videos show between the parties and of course the tea! :D

[@mountaineer2393]

i have never thought that such simillarities are possible! (I'm Russian) Cool channel, thank you!

[@user-sg9uy1qw3y]

thnks for this vedio i realy love it 😍😘 its diserve more than 1000000 likes

[@BahadorAlast]

salman ali Really appreciate it my friend!! Thank you so much ❤

[@josephwaters2792]

Love these!

[@Erschado]

There it is ! Love it very amusing and interesting.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!

[@cmcnadejda5960]

The video was excellent! The praticipants as always very nice. And just to mention that some of the words are used in Bulgarian as well - naft - neft, sandogh - sandâk, diveest - dvésta.

[@BahadorAlast]

Tikvah Silva Thank you so much!! Wow, that's very interesting. I have plans to do videos in Bulgarian in the future. I visited Bulgaria a few years ago, I went to Sofia, the Rila monastery. Had an amazing time there! I didn't know the words are also used in Bulgarian, good to know! Thank you ❤

[@cmcnadejda5960]

Bulgaria is a beautiful country with rich history, not like Iran of course, but still there is much to be seen and learnt. Everyday I stumble upon words that have Persian origin, some through Turkish, that are used until nowadays. Not to mention the many French loan words that Persian and Bulgarian languages share. Just of r an example dush - shower. If you are interested I can share with you my tiny list of words I add every now and then. It might be of some use. I study I bit of Persian, but it is more like a hobby, so finding similarities and in the vocabulary always is of a help to some extent.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!! That would be awesome! You can message me on here, or if possible on Facebook or Instagram. That would actually be better. With a lot of comments on KZbin, the website doesn't always send notifications, so I could miss yours, unless I'm checking through all of them. That's why I suggest FB/IG. Thanks again!!

[@cmcnadejda5960]

I sent from my husband`s FB as I don`t have neither of these FB/Instagram.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!! Just received it and responded there. I really associate your help!! 😊

[@bobmcbob9856]

I’ve always found your channel fascinating and despite not being able to rn, kind of wanted to be in one of these language comparison videos. As a Serb I’ve always liked the comparing Persian to Slavic languages ones since my own native language not only has the Persian influences all Slavic languages got via Scythian but also a lot of Persian brought in through Turkish. I remember I was showing off Serbian traditional handcrafts and household items at a cultural fair this year and a Pakistani family came in and pointed to a Serbian tambourine and asked me what it’s called in our language, I said Def, and the dad was overjoyed and told me it was Daf in Urdu There is even a theory that the Serbs and Croats maybe Slavicized Scythian tribes, unlike most odd theories about the South Slavs it has some support among mainstream historians though it’s far from confirmed. I’m not sure on my position on the theory but there was a Sarmatian tribe called the Serbs (could of course be a coincidence, Serb is a pretty simple set of letters) and one whose name sounds a bit like Hrvati, there’s our high vocabulary similarity, Slavs do have a history of assimilating foreign rulers (the Swedish Rus Vikings, the Turkic Bulgars), the Slavs did interact with the Scythians/Sarmatians a lot, the Sarmatian Alans were pushed into Central Europe by the Huns right around the time the Serbs and Croats first appear there, and there have been some Sarmatian-like archeological finds in Lusatia and northern Czechia (the homes of the Serbs and Croats before the migration to the Balkans), including Alan-style modified skulls that lend some credibility to the theory. The Iranian/Sarmatian hypothesis on the origin of the Serbs and Croats makes me want to see a Persian and Sorbian/White Serbian/Lusatian comparison. The Sorbian language has developed separately from Serbian since the 600s CE so it’s quite distinct as far as Slavic languages go, in fact it’s West Slavic, so it’s closer to Polish or Czech but if the theory is correct, it would probably have more Iranic words than the other West Slavic languages. Even aside from the theory, seeing a Sorbian speaker on the channel would be cool, they’re a tiny community in Eastern Saxony and Western Poland, or really 2 as there’s 2 Sorbian languages.

[@403fruit]

I love these videos! Ive always wondered about rus/farsi

[@TechSupport450]

Do a part 2!!!!

[@gautambasu8807]

Much laugh less words, very nice friendly environment...😃👍 More subtitles please.

[@gunarslanyikar7185]

Fig is same in Turkish, "incir". You are doing a great work, greetings :)

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you :)

[@rishsharma16]

Even we in India call it Anjeer😀

[@islombekiev1858]

Cunku incir turkce soz degil bence

[@sura5174]

Incir turkce degil farsca ancirden gelir

[@gunarslanyikar7185]

@@sura5174 Evet Farsça kökenli, ben de Türkçe olduğunu iddia etmedim.

[@Dariush090909]

Thank you so much for such language challenge videos. Please, do video "Similarities Between Persian and Tajik languages", if it's possible.

[@fazrazfarzam4688]

Agha Dariush, Tajik and Persian is the same language. Trying to separate them is political because outside powers want to do things to divide Persians. But it is up to us to be united and not fall for the trick! Long live our Tajik brothers. We are one!!

[@BahadorAlast]

Dariush090909 Thank you. We would love to do a video comparing unique expressions and phrases between Tajik, Farsi, and Dari. Would you be able to help us with that? Please make sure to contact us on Instagram, because KZbin comments can easily get missed. Shahrzad: instagram.com/shahrzad.pe or Me: instagram.com/BahadorAlast Thanks again :)

[@shoshuz1180]

Thanks a lot for the video! Please make a video on Uzbek and Uyghur too!!!

[@rhydianxwingurg208]

Great video! I would love it if you would make a Kurdish-Persian video ❤✌🏼

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!! We are definitely going to do a Kurdish/Persian video soon! Stay tuned my friend, it's coming! :) If you have any other suggestions or feedback, please make sure to contact us on Instagram, because KZbin comments can easily get missed. Shahrzad: instagram.com/shahrzad.pe or Me: instagram.com/BahadorAlast Thanks again :)

[@elar8256]

Rhydian Xwîngûrg this is too funny,kurdish comes from persian language.I know kurdish n i know what i said

[@rhydianxwingurg208]

Bahador Alast Sipas brangim (Thanks bro)! I love your videos and I'm looking forward to it ✌🏼

[@rhydianxwingurg208]

arizant arkiyan Yeah, I know. I'm Kurdish 🤷🏻‍♂️ You are right: Kurdish is an Iranian language, but it's from another tribe so it's pretty different from Persian, otherwise it wouldn't be a language by itself. Know your facts. There is a different between "Persian" and an "Iranian language". The joke is: Persian by itself is also an "Iranian language" it's a "Western Iranian language" while Kurdish is a "Northwestern Iranian language". It's like you are comparing Dutch and Norwegian while they are pretty different from each other and still they both are from the Germanic languages tribe.

[@elar8256]

Rhydian Xwîngûrg yes you're absolutely right n i am German.I just tried to study kurdish because I have a kurd friend N I like him very much,he is very very good boy,but nowadys he's very sad because of afrin killing by turkish regime.I just should tell that kurds,persians,parthians,germans r from one race(aryan).am I right???

[@arezourose1]

My favourite video in the series, the interaction and chemistry was great. By the way why didn’t you also use the word ‘Samavar’ :)

[@TylerDurden-bb8lw]

Cool show!!

[@htaheri9328]

Love this russian guys, and all the russian, they are nice and funny like us:D. from Iran.

[@farhansadid4753]

Nice to see Bahador and Amir Tavassoly together. LIKE!!!

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you :)

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thank you! :)

[@farhansadid4753]

Please visit Bangladesh some time. We have many similarities with persia. I myself half Persian half Bangladeshi.

[@mimo4856]

Two of my favourite Iranian KZbinrs!! Bingo.

[@BahadorAlast]

MiBeforeChelle Thank you so much! Really appreciate it! ❤❤

[@AmirTavassoly]

Haha thank you soo much!! 😊💚💚

[@user-ld7ch1er6j]

@@AmirTavassoly Please make videos in English too if you can.

[@BatuhanErdogan314]

I really can't believe how cute Sara is! Consider me charmed. 😍 Oh, also, great video - of course.

[@KaranDeshmukh]

As someone who knows Hindi-Urdu & Marathi, it’s always interesting for me to watch Bahador’s videos that compare Persian with other languages because I always discover new similarities not just between Hindi/Marathi & Persian but also with languages that are being compared with Persian. Case in point: The word for “box” is nearly the same in Hindi-Urdu, Persian & Russian. It’s Sandookh in Hindi-Urdu. Same applies to the term for “figs”, it’s Anjeer in Marathi, Hindi-Urdu & Persian.

[@KathaaSagar]

And the numbers similar in Sanskrit, mushika for mouse

[@Pojeetdoval]

Indo European language family

[@antonmurtazaev5366]

Скндук-это заимствование в русском

[@osmanawad6323]

It is also sandoog in Arabic

[@atos719]

Great show! I would love to see simillarities between turkish and uzbek!

[@BahadorAlast]

Зафар Закиров Thank you. I would love to do that. In fact, I would also like to do Uzbek with Persian. However, I don't know any fluent Uzbek speakers here in Toronto. It would be great if I find a fluent Uzbek speaker in Toronto who would be interested in participating.

[@atos719]

Sergei Andronov да, сам учился в русской школе :)

[@playlistam3274]

There are many other common or similar words, here are some: Russian words in Persian: ===================== Kolyaska => Kalaskeh, Drozhki => Doroshkeh, Zaperto => Zeperti, Zapas Persian words in Russian: ===================== Divan meaning Seat/Chair, Kishmish

[@dymytryruban4324]

Tabar = Topor.

[@vladmir6301]

@@dymytryruban4324 Old Persian Tapar = Modern Persian Tabar

[@dymytryruban4324]

Watermelon is هندوانه (hen-doo-ah-'neh) in Persian, دوانه (doo-ah-'neh) part resembles Russian word "дыня" which is melon or cantaloupe. Ear is گوش (goosh) which is similar to "уши" (singular: "ухо").

[@TabbyAngel2]

Also the word "woman" is very similar.

[@mmsherzad6352]

drosti bh rosi salam drosti ba farsi salm dar farsi mjyana

[@guluaze]

I am laughing, it is such a pleasure to see people being like friends from different cultures. I also watched Azerbaijani one. We have a lot of similar words

[@berikkarabala8825]

Siz Iranlılarla sadece onlardan aldığınız sözcükler itibariyle benzerlikleriniz olabilir.

[@mEtalec]

Not similarities but borrowings. Your language full of Iranian words.

[@penpineappleapplepen8019]

Зачётный видос!

[@saltpepper7525]

Every one seems to had a lot of fun!

[@digital445]

Nice video. But please try to work on sound quality . Gtreetings from Russia!

[@tl6425]

i like the channel. Its very interesting to see the similarities when you think there wouldn't be.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you so much! We have many more videos coming. Hope you enjoy them :)

[@zhanibekussenbek1176]

Thank you. Very fun! Good luck! Please, make video with Qazaq and Persian :)

[@BahadorAlast]

I'd love to. Just need a fluent speaker in Toronto who is interested in taking part. If you have any suggestions in the future, please reach me on Instagram (@BahadorAlast) Thank you!

[@douglasug73]

Nice video! Hose in swedish is slang, so very similar

[@BahadorAlast]

Very interesting! Thank you for watching:)

[@SadisticChaos]

Greek and Russian!

[@BahadorAlast]

We'll eventually do it :)

[@dickobrass1735]

учитывая, что в русском много греческих слов..

[@user-zj8ib5ii3m]

В русском языке много слов греческих, особенно имена!

[@cfroi08]

@@dickobrass1735 οππα

[@notfound9816]

@Tornadoes этрусски в Италии Ну ляпнул

[@ak-bf1eb]

Enjoyed, a lot... Ty bahador joon

[@BahadorAlast]

Nargest Shahdi My pleasure! Thank you for watching :)

[@GA-jn7oo]

Классный выпуск!)

[@fruitybunny5106]

Wow!!! Interesting

[@BahadorAlast]

Fruity Bunny Thank you for watching :)

[@dmitryf1593]

I am Russian and thought to try to learn Farsi cause it’s such a beautiful language, now it looks like there are many similarities in both languages and I hope it won’t be that hard. But this Arabic vein is definitely going to be a challenge.

[@extratropicalcyclone8567]

In nepali mouse is called.musa, I was shocked to know how similar it was to both farsi and russian, awesome video btw

[@adorno_gang37]

The "naft"/"нефть" one is funny because in my dialect of Dutch (Flemish) we can also call gasoline "naft", although it's not the standard word for it.

[@lollol-ow9eo]

Nice video

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you!!

[@samelq]

Brilliant Video, i like both the countries. What i like more about this video is i saw 2 nicest Russians on KZbin for the first time :D

[@povorot70]

due to his name the red one Bogdan is Ukrainian

[@ggusik]

I am Talysh And I can understand both of this languages. I am in Russian stream in my class, maybe that's why. But Persian I can understand so easily)

[@XENUSproTV]

Persian girl are beautiful

[@-_Hatred_-]

Persian girls are beautiful.

[@billy_boi]

@@-_Hatred_- sadly there were no Russian girls in this video...

[@kiyanmehrpour6105]

@@billy_boi both are great

[@deadlightdrifter3462]

Hella

[@aguyonthenet9061]

@@-_Hatred_- but you can't marry a Persian lady unless you accept Islam only Muslims can marry Muslims

[@aahan1]

Good to see amir here. Greetings to all beautiful people from Pakistan. 🙂

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! Greetings to the people of Pakistan from us!

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thank you Ashfaq Khan, greetings to you as well :)

[@topgopnik]

You guys blew my mind I am native Hebrew and Russian speaker. Persian is so easy for me now it makes a lot of sense I will watch all of the videos!!

[@farhad_3173]

Very funny :))))) keep up the good work

[@KK-cr3zf]

The idea is great and the videos are interesting to watch but I personally find them too long and think it could be better if some of the conversations and laughing were cut a little. Concerning the discussed words, some of them are neither of Persian nor of Slavonic origins, so no wonder they sound similar in the two languages.

[@Mediaflashmob]

I'm a Russian native from Moscow. I've been to Iran and I noticed that Persian is much more similar to our language than Turkish and Arabic!

[@meggieqin8496]

I am persian and learning russian and the similaritiws amaze me every day , specially the grammar and words , btw your language is so beautifull😍

[@Mediaflashmob]

@@meggieqin8496 thank you!

[@nur-alijanqojayev329]

But Turkic languages have way more influence on russian

[@Mediaflashmob]

@@nur-alijanqojayev329 it's rather a question of loan words, but I was talking about common roots.

[@paardendichterxoxo6985]

7:15 we have this word in Dutch too, slang! (Hose, but also "snake"). Same meaning. I wonder what the etymology is

[@Ale_Alehandro21]

Thank you very much

[@muhammedibrahim9452]

I like Amir. He is a nice guy.

[@rtmusicvideos431]

As a Central Asian from Uzbekistan who speaks both Russian and Persian this was really cool to watch! Granted the Russian was far easier for me to understand since I only speak an old dialect of Persian, but this definitely makes me want to brush up on my Persian! Can't believe there's so many words in common in my two native languages that I never noticed, but I guess that makes sense given their relative geographic proximity and history.

[@BahadorAlast]

💚💚

[@rtmusicvideos431]

@@BahadorAlast Are you also Persian? How do you know so many languages?

[@Jinado1]

Ah! Being a Russian-speaker (heritage language) I almost instantly figured out the last word to be "Откуда" and I was sitting there practically screaming at my screen! Haha!

[@BahadorAlast]

Jinado1 haha, that's awesome! Good for you. I'm impressed you got that! I usually save the tougher ones for the end, so that's impressive. You should join us for future videos!

[@Jinado1]

Bahador Alast That would probably be fun, but I live in Sweden and I'm currently trying to keep up with quite a stressful school haha ;) So I'd sadly have to say no to that :( But I'll continue watching your videos, and screaming at the screen whenever Russian is on 😂

[@BahadorAlast]

Jinado1 haha, awesome!! Hope you enjoy the future videos. Thanks again and wish you all the best with your studies!! :)

[@Jinado1]

Bahador Alast thank you!

[@strangerthan765]

Haha, I did the same - but for a different reason. I speak a little Russian and a little Farsi, but I never saw the similarity between those words. I was totally amazed. Does anyone know if they have the same etymological roots, or if it's just an accidental semi-homophony?

[@Manseth]

Yessss...I know Amir .I have seen him earlier in KZbin for Persian .Nice

[@AmirTavassoly]

😊😊

[@Manseth]

Amir Tavassoly I have seen all your videos too. I am dying to learn persian.One day I will ,sir .☺️

[@AmirTavassoly]

Thank you! You seem very motivated I'm sure you will learn it! If you have any questions about Persian/Farsi I can try to help :)

[@Manseth]

Amir Tavassoly .From where should I start ?Although I know few Persian words not the sentences .But somehow I can guess the sentence but that's not enough.As an Indian I think I should learn Persian as much as I can .Because by any means we all are connected .Thank you for supporting ☺️☺️☺️

[@AmirTavassoly]

My pleasure dear, sorry for the late response. I think its great that you already know a few words just keep practicing and those words will turn into sentences! It's difficult learning a new language. It's like me trying to learn Hindi or Urdu. But with practice and not giving up you will surely be able to speak it fluently! So I'm very glad that you're trying! Keep going brother :)

[@Unknown_person787]

I'm a person who speaks both of these languages, Russian and Persian. My native language is Persian and my second language is Russian. It's quite interesting for me. I have never thought that there is some similarities in Russian and Persian...

[@YamnayaSintash]

We where once the same people, aka the Aryans.

[@johan8644]

If your russian is your second language why you became surprise of the similarity watching this clip??!!!! 🤔

[@sunilghuge7835]

It's late but iam egar to tell that,in that list the little tiny animal u both called it moosh also in my mothertoung is it same prounounce 'mooshak' in marathi

[@mrezaal9290]

amir is so shy here😂😂❤️❤️👑👑

[@idreeskhan4918]

Nice video Bahador , I wish you do Urdu vs Arabic , I'm so Interesting to learn Arabic ,i think the culture and the language seems beautiful , thank you

[@BahadorAlast]

Idrees khan We definitely plan on it for a future video :)

[@lalax3754]

Так интересно было посмотреть. Я знаю и персидский и русский язык. Но не понимала что они на английском говорят 👏

[@berikkarabala8825]

Я понимаю все три (ну фарси на самом низком уровне). Я учил фарси еще когда был студентом в Турции. Обучался на факультете тюркологи. Фарси надо было знать обязательно, иначе Турецкую литературу, особенно времен Османской империи без знания фарси и арабского читать было невозможно.

[@user-jq6xg7tl5x]

@@berikkarabala8825 низки это твой язык мангол

[@odam____]

@@berikkarabala8825 ну язык Османской империи как раз был фарси.