I don't want to make anyone upset by asking or cause people to start posting mean stuff. I was reading Arabian Nights to my kids and I was a little confused because there were references to Arabia, Orient, India, and Persia. I just assumed that Persian and Arabic were the same but I know that this may be wrong. I wanted to explain to my kids exactly what regions were considered Persia and Arabia and the diferences between two if there are any.
Thanks a bunch.
2007-06-02 15:16:59 · 8 answers · asked by shrinker30m 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Persians are Iranians which their race goes back to the Aryans. This is why it is called Iran it means the land of the Aryans. Iranians have their own culture, their own language and had their own religion Zoroastrian which changed after the Arab and the Persian war (not the Iran and Iraq war) which the religion changed to Islam.
Arabs are different from the Persians the only similarities that they have is the religion. They speak Arabic, they have different culture.
The other thing is that they will never have good relationship whith each other because their is a deep hatred between these two races. I think it will go back to the past which the Arabs wanted to change the Persian culture which they couldnt and the main one was the Iranian new year which is about the celebration of the bith of the earth in the spring.
2007-06-03 02:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by Sara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Persian script was borrowed from the Arabic script, as such, they nearly have the same abgad. However, Persian and Arabic are 2 very different languages. Arabic is Semitic from the Afro-Asiatic family. Persian is Indo-Aryan from the Indo-European family. They aren't even closely related! There have been extensive lexical borrowings going both ways in both languages, but that's due to the long history they share together.
2016-04-01 12:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The native people of Iran are Persian. They had a differnet language that was more commomnt when the persians had a layge empire throughout the middle east. Arabic is a different nationality. It is the language most commonly spoken in the middle east today. People from most of the middle eastern countries are arabic.
2007-06-02 15:24:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Persian = Iranian. Persians are Aryans, not Arabs. They speak Farsi, not Arabic. There are some cultural differences, as well.
2007-06-02 15:28:44 · answer #4 · answered by la buena bruja 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Persians are descended from ancient Middle Easterners. Arabs are relative newcomers, having migrated out in mass from the Saudi peninsula in the 7th century.
2007-06-02 15:21:29 · answer #5 · answered by Joe C 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Persians are what is now Iran, they had an empire, just like the Arabs had one as well. They speak different languages, they are different, but still similar, just not the same. Like China and Japan.
2007-06-02 15:20:42 · answer #6 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
There are WHite Arabs and there are Dark Arabs alot of people associate Arab as only being Dark !
2007-06-02 15:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
one likes blue carpet and gold curtain rods and the other wear towles on there head
2007-06-02 15:20:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋