Question - Why does the victim go by more than one name? Is that a cultural thing or ???
Recent Watercraft license photo on his fb says "Sina Farzi"
Persian, the historically more widely used name of the language in English, is an anglicized form derived from Latin *Persianus < Latin Persia < Greek Περσίς Persís "Persia",[25] a Hellenized form of Old Persian Parsa.[26] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Persian as a language name is first attested in English in the mid-16th century.[27] Native Iranian Persian speakers call it Fārsi.[28] Farsi is the Arabicized form of Pārsi, due to a lack of the 'p' phoneme in Standard Arabic (i.e., the 'p' was replaced with an 'f').[29][30] The origin of the name Farsi and the place of origin of the language which is Fars Province is the Arabicized form of Pârs. In English, this language has historically been known as "Persian", though "Farsi" has also gained some currency. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Farsi was first used in English in 1926, while Parsi dates to 1790.[28] "Farsi" is encountered in some linguistic literature as a name for the language, used both by Iranian and by foreign authors.[31]
OMENCLATURE
The name Persian derives from the province of Pārs (modern Fārs) in southwestern Iran. This was itself named after the Persian tribes of Indo-European nomads who migrated, along with some other Iranian peoples, from territories east of the Caspian Sea onto the Iranian plateau in the middle[6] or later part of the second millennium BCE[7].
The Persians settled in the mountain country rising over the northeast side of the Persian Gulf and enclosing the high basin in the west in which Persepolis and Shiraz are situated[8], some time between the seventh and ninth centuries BCE[9]. The name survived as Fārs[10]. This region then became the birthplace of two Persian dynastic empires the Achaemenids (550-530 BCE) and the Sasanids (224-651CE) as well as the cradle of the Persian language.
Achaemenid Persians called their language (Old Persian) Pārsa and the Greeks followed this in naming it Persis. From then on, other nations have predominantly named Persia and Persian using words based on the root Pārs-[11].
For example, the English use of the word Persian has a five hundred year history[12] and is derived from the Latin Persianus, itself drawing on the Greek Persis. Similarly, the French word is Persane, the Germans use Persisch, the Italians Persiano and the Russians Persiska.
As outlined above, Persian only came to be described as Fārsi by natives of Iran following the P/F letter substitution associated with the Arab conquests.
