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In Persian it’s “na”. Also the words for Mother, Father, Daughter, Brother and some other primitive concepts are very similar. But it’s not really surprising.


That's because Persian is an Indo-European family language, probably. Those words are similar in many languages in that family, such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Latin, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.




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