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Dari

[ dahr-ee ]

noun

  1. a form of Persian, spoken in Afghanistan.


Dari

/ ˈdʌrɪ /

noun

  1. the local name for the dialect of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan


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Example Sentences

Meanwhile, workers at the shelter said interpreters who speak the children’s languages, Pashto and Dari, are now based in the building, eliminating a shortcoming in care.

Workers said no employees speak Pashto or Dari, the children’s main languages, and access to phone-based interpretation lines is limited, making it difficult to deescalate tense encounters.

Heartland said last week it distributed 61 devices to translate information into multiple languages, including Dari and Pashto, across its four shelters, and that it will distribute 39 more this week.

The signs were in Spanish then, instead of Pashto and Dari, and the Cubans played baseball and dominoes instead of soccer.

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An Afghan instructor explained the concept of collage in Dari.

I asked him what the Dari script underneath said, his friend translated, “Four killed by suicide bomber.”

“This is a poem about happiness,” by Bīdel, a student said of the page he had filled with Dari script.

In the morning and at night, men listened to the BBC, sometimes to the Voice of America, in Pashtu or Dari, for news on the war.

She hoped to become a professor of Dari or perhaps even literature one day.

Nulla regula firma dari potest de impotentia physiologica senectutis in maribus.

Tametsi quid homini potest dari maius quam gloria et laus et aeternitas.

Dari´us, son of Hystaspês, was so called by the Persians from his great care of the financial condition of his empire.

Alio tempore solo eo in insula illa relicto, pauperem quendam audiuit in portu ignem sibi dari rogantem.

The corresponding line in Ovid is—'Finge dari comitesque mihi, uentosque, ratemque'; 63.

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