How to Use Farsi in a Sentence

Farsi

noun
  • The way that Nandor talks to his horse in Farsi is the way that my dad talks to his dog.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Farsi would never meet her subject in person.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The man spoke over his shoulder, presumably in Farsi, and turned back to us.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The Farsi-language post racked up millions of views within just a few hours.
    — David Klepper, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But in Farsi, the language that is most spoken throughout the film, the movie is called something else.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The film is written, directed, shot, and edited by Farsi.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Police said the hostage taker spoke a mixture of Farsi and English.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Most of its population is Persian and speaks Farsi.
    — Amaarah Decuir, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The remark was posted on the State Department's Farsi feed.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Farsi-language social media remains flooded with images of the dead, missing and detained.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Zein speaks Spanish, French, Arabic and Farsi and his soccer journey is unique.
    — Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 23 June 2026
  • One elderly man carrying a makeshift placard offered to translate his sign, hand-written in Farsi.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • The warning went out on the Israeli military's Farsi social media accounts.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Michael Shayan must be among the funniest advocates for Iran and the language of Farsi that nation ever produced.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Home to many Iranian businesses, the restaurants, bakeries and bookstores are adorned with signs in both English and Farsi.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 June 2025
  • Ed Sheeran might be English, but the Grammy-winning singer’s first taste of his new album has arrived with a nod to the Farsi language.
    — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • In many languages, including Lao, Farsi, Yucatec, and Cantonese, taste turned out to be the most expressible sense.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Borrero went into Farsi’s ankle with a two-foot tackle, Penso issuing a caution then a second yellow for dissent.
    — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • She is known to speak Farsi and reside in Iran, and may be using aliases, including Fatemah Zahra or Narges Witt.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Conceived amid the bombs in Kabul, I was born and raised until age 7 in Fremont, and taught that my mother tongue, Farsi, was a foreign language.
    — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The presenters spoke their mother tongue (Farsi and Hindi), which was detected and translated in real-time to English.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
  • The series is set entirely in Iran, with Greece used as a stand-in for the Middle Eastern country, with much of the dialogue in Farsi.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 16 Feb. 2026
  • An alternative Canada between Tati and Kiarostami, where the common language is Farsi.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Pahlavi issued calls, rebroadcast by Farsi-language satellite news channels and websites abroad, for Iranians to return to the streets Friday night.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Later, at the film’s first screening, Farsi said that Israeli forces had deliberately targeted Hassona in the attack.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 27 May 2025
  • Sitting shoulder to shoulder, muttering curses in Farsi and Pashto, our engineers had each drunk six cups of tea in less than ten minutes, hoarding an entire thermos for themselves.
    — Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • When that didn’t work, Chalker produced a note from another such colleague, handwritten in Farsi, urging Ejection to trust Chalker’s offer.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • That follows a similar removal of a blue checkmark from the Iranian Supreme Leader’s Farsi-language account earlier this month.
    — Dylan Butts, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But Rankin did make a fascinating video short in 2008, a self-portrait that also presented a Winnipeg where everybody spoke Farsi.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • Many of the weavers are women, with the skills needed for the Farsi weaving style passed down from generation to generation, using materials like vine leaves and the skins of pomegranate fruit and walnuts to make the dyes for their threads.
    — Mehdi Fattahi, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024

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