Re: [ha-Safran]: Persian word for "goodbye"

2004-02-29 Thread Rivka Strom
PROTECTED] Sent: 2/27/04 3:00:15 PM Subject: Re: FW: [ha-Safran]: Persian word for "goodbye" It just doned on me the word for Goodbye in Parsi of the time of Purim may have been "Bed'rood", I am not certain though. Shabat Shalom again, Jacob Rivka Strom <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [ha-Safran]: Persian word for "goodbye"

2004-02-27 Thread Miller, Philip
Khuda hafez ["God protect"] is "goodbye" in Farsi. There are several sites for leaning Farsi, one of which is: http://www.easypersian.com/ But at the supposed time of Esther and Mordecai, Aramaic was the imperial language! Commoners spoke Pahlevi, an earlier form o

[ha-Safran]: Persian word for "goodbye"

2004-02-26 Thread Ann Abrams
Hi, safranim, I got a couple answers to this from google, but thought I'd check with the experts. Anyone know how to say "goodbye" in the language that would have been spoken in Persia during the time period that Purim was supposed to have taken place? And, while I'm asking, is there a good sourc