Persian Names

[arashmordad]

Originally Posted by gole_hayahou

I'm a Seyed...its not ridiculous thank you very much...

I wonder if im there are any other half Scottish Seyed's out there

So is my grandmother, but i aint braggin about it, lol. I doubt that my family really is though. I think over time people started calling religious people "seyyed." But hey, you never know, I might really have the prophets blood in me.

[eduardo90]

I have a question can you translate others name into farsi like say.....Renato? With the letters? jeje

[arashmordad]

I already did it for you in the "How to speak Farsi" thread, but here you go again

Originally Posted by eduardo90

i have a question how do u say Renato(my name) in Farsi? And how do you write it? I wanna get a tattoo with my name in Farsi is it possible?

your name is your name, where ever you go, lol. its not like in one place you are "George" than in another you are "Mike." Youre name is your name where ever you go. Your name in farsi script is :

رناتو

This is in standard calligraphy though. there are much more beautiful Persian calligraphy such as "nast'aliq" and "shekasteh" scripts.

Examples of Persian calligraphy:

[gole_hayahou]

Originally Posted by arashmordad

So is my grandmother, but i aint braggin about it, lol. I doubt that my family really is though. I think over time people started calling religious people "seyyed." But hey, you never know, I might really have the prophets blood in me.

I'm not bragging My family had the name 'Seyyed' when they moved into Iran from Turkey after my distant relative failed an attempted coup...

Who knows if Seyyed's are still the real deal.....still proud of it though...why not!

[SoroushPersepolisi]

Originally Posted by shugs

Apparently other countries have restrictions on names too, Germany for example sets out gender guidelines and restricts the length of first names.

yea but they convince u with german names not names of another language

in iran they convince u to put arabic names which is not good

[SoroushPersepolisi]

Originally Posted by shugs

^Because they have roots in those families. It's the same concept of Shiekh's and Sharriffs.

yea but really there are so little sayyeds but funny how after the revolution everyone became a seyyed and u MUST state that ur a seyyed and the concept doesnt make sense its not like ppl have been actually recording that stuff lol, its just "tashrifat" and actually saying that there is muhammads ancestry is just ridiculous its sooooo far away

[SoroushPersepolisi]

and dear persianprincess alot of the names u have posted are not persian/iranian they are arabic.

[Ciranc]

What are peoples's thoughts of Arnavaz for a girl's name? Is this a Zoroastrian name by any chance?

[SoroushPersepolisi]

there is no real thing as a "zoroastrian" name, zoroastrianism isnt a language, some words might be more common among them but they use the same names as we do
ive never heard of arnavaz though, its probably one of these newly composed names

[persian]

Originally Posted by Ciranc

What are peoples's thoughts of Arnavaz for a girl's name? Is this a Zoroastrian name by any chance?

It is one of the oldest Iranians names used for girls, and a name used in Shah-name too, it dates back to the time of Jamshid, so yes you can say it is Zorastrian.

[SoroushPersepolisi]

arnavaz in shah name?? interesting

and jamshid is PRE zoroastrian, noruz is PRE zoroastrian, stop tieing every damn thing to zoroastrianism guys, not only does this show the lack of knowledge regarding our own culture but also it is in a way disregarding/down grading of irans culture, all these concepts are secular

[Big Abdul]

Now I am marrying a local we were discussing (Universal name) So far we came up Zakaria, Rose my brother in NZ just named his daughter Lilly, so I would be interested to see what names would be seen as not weird in cultures outside of Iran, if that makes sense.

[PersianTakavar]

Originally Posted by Big Abdul

Now I am marrying a local we were discussing (Universal name) So far we came up Zakaria, Rose my brother in NZ just named his daughter Lilly, so I would be interested to see what names would be seen as not weird in cultures outside of Iran, if that makes sense.

Cyrus, darius etc...

[Surenas]

Originally Posted by gole_hayahou

I'm not bragging My family had the name 'Seyyed' when they moved into Iran from Turkey after my distant relative failed an attempted coup...

Who knows if Seyyed's are still the real deal.....still proud of it though...why not!

Proud to be in bloodline with a man with that kind of history? Wow. Thats new to me. Over my dead body that I will ever give a Arabic (religious) name to my children.

[SoroushPersepolisi]

seyyeds dont even have any real record if they are related to the prophets family
i mean what are the chances? i know many people that have gained the name seyyed when they arent, most seyyeds arent even realy related, its just a name like "sir" that i think at one point was used more as a respect prefix,
funny thing is i have hardly seen any arabs with seyyeds in front of their names

[Big Abdul]

Nah I wouldnt want my kids to have (Persian) names, because they are too linked to Iranian history and people would automatically know they have some Persian roots, I want people to feel lost at looking at my kids, "what are they arabs, turks, jews" Something so bland, so lost in history it has no fixed abode.

[Big Abdul]

I should add that my other half mentioned Baran is a beautiful name, I said if I called my child "Rain" then I would be worried for their mental health if they lived in northern europe. I said "Why don't people call there kids names like Karaj?" To which she fell over backwards laughing at me.

[Surenas]

Originally Posted by Big Abdul

Nah I wouldnt want my kids to have (Persian) names, because they are too linked to Iranian history and people would automatically know they have some Persian roots, I want people to feel lost at looking at my kids, "what are they arabs, turks, jews" Something so bland, so lost in history it has no fixed abode.

Aha, so you want to make you're children like some 'interesting thing'? Ridiculous.

[Big Abdul]

don't trash my statement and then say nothing in return come on, I wish to hear your special argument.

[Big Abdul]

Originally Posted by Surenas

Aha, so you want to make you're children like some 'interesting thing'? Ridiculous.

Also if you read my orignal statement I want something international but none geolocated, so how could that be "Intersting thing". By calling my kid Darius which is actually very cliched in this day and age or Cyrus, ah please give me a break I dont buy into ancient Iranian mumbo jumbo.