r/farsi

learning farsi as an arabic feels weird knowing that the language im learning dont have the same common ancestor even tho it feels so similiar lol

I am learning Persian. Would learning Arabic in parallel help, or is it more likely going to be counter-productive ?

In Pakistan pretty much everything is written in nastaliq and naskh is unreadable. Nastaliq was used by all the Persianite countries like the Ottoman empire, Safavids and Mughal empire. So why is it that Persian itself is written in naskh? The argument that computer support is bad makes sense but nowadays most computers support nastaliq and I’ve read even in hand writing people use naskh. Pakistan uses nastaliq without issue. Is it the same deal in Afghanistan? Whenever I search this up only Iranian Persian shows up not Afghan Persian.

I hope you're all well. I've been puzzling over a sentence:

>از اين نوع قهوه‌را دوست ندارم. I don't like this kind of coffee.

What's surprising to me is the combination of از with را on the same noun phrase. This example comes from Lesson 15, Exercise c of Wheeler Thackston's An Introduction to Persian (he gives an English sentence; the Persian is in the accompanying Key to Exercises).

I checked Saeed Youssef's Persian: A Comprehensive Grammar for similar cases. We get examples like:

>مريم سگش را دوست دارد.
مريم سگ خودش را دوست دارد.
سفر با قطار را دوست دارم.

All of these have را without از. Is the از in this first sentence just a mistake, or is it acceptable? If it's acceptable, is this also acceptable, and is there a difference:

>اين نوع قهوه‌را دوست ندارم.

A few years ago my cousin told me a phrase which translates to "He has a warm back," referring to a person whose successes, while his own, could be attributed to the support he received from family, friends, etc. As in, his back is warm because of all he hands supporting him, pushing him forward, etc.

Anyway, now I cannot find any reference to this phrase and I'm wondering if it was a saying within the family or what. Anyone know?

(I am unable to ask my cousin at this time.)

I'm a Balochi speaker and we exclusively say "o" for and spell it as و -- I just wanted to hear some discussion on this theory I have:

• Arabic (العربية): Wa, و
• Formal Persian (فارسی): Va, و
• Informal Persian (فارسی): O, و
• Kurdish (کوردی): Û, و
• Balochi (بلوچی): O, و
• Urdu (اردو): Or, اور

Thoughts?