Dari

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A variety of Middle Persian, the court language of the late Sassanid period and of classical Persian poetry.
• The dialect of the Persian language as spoken natively by approximately one-half of the population in Afghanistan and serves as the interethnic lingua franca for the vast majority of the population; also referred to as Eastern Persian, Afghan Persian, or simply Persian.
• A language of the Central Iranian family spoken by up to 15,000 people (mostly Zoroastrians) in the Yazd and Kerman areas, also known as Gabri or Gabar.

Origin

• Borrowed from Persian دری, of disputed origin, probably from دربار. The use of the name for the Afghan dialect of Persian in English is a recent development, the language formerly being known as Persian or Afghan Persian to English speakers.