موزه
موزه (muze) means museum in Persian and is borrowed from the French musee, ultimately from the Greek Mouseion, the seat of the Muses. It entered Persian in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside other institutional vocabulary.
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گالری
گالری (gâleri) means gallery in Persian and is borrowed from the French galerie. It refers to a space where art is exhibited or sold, and entered Persian along with other arts vocabulary during the early twentieth century.
مجسمه
مجسمه (mojassame) means statue or sculpture in Persian. The word comes from the Arabic root j-s-m, meaning body or physical form, via the Arabic Form II verbal pattern, and refers to any three-dimensional sculpted work.
نقاشی
نقاشی (naqqâshi) means painting or drawing in Persian. The stem comes from the Arabic root naqqâsh (engraver, painter), with the Persian abstract suffix -i added to form the art or activity itself.
بازیگر
بازیگر (bâzigar) means actor or performer in Persian. It is a native Persian compound: bâzi (play) plus the agentive suffix -gar, making it one of the few arts terms with deep Persian roots.
کارگردانه
کارگردان (kârgardân) means “director” in Persian, referring to the director of a film or theatrical production. Both elements of this compound are native Persian words.
صحنه
صحنه (sahne) means “stage” or “scene” in Persian. Despite its everyday feel, the word is borrowed from Arabic, where the root carries the sense of a wide open courtyard or surface.
ارکستر
ارکستر (orkester) means “orchestra” in Persian. The word entered Persian through French orchestre, which itself derives from ancient Greek orkhestra, the dancing area in front of a stage.
خواننده
خواننده (khânande) means “singer” in Persian. It is a native Persian agent noun built from the verb خواندن (to sing, to read), and sits at the heart of Persian musical culture.
نثر
نثر (nasr) means prose in Persian, as opposed to verse. Borrowed from Arabic نَثر (to scatter), it describes writing that is not bound by poetic meter, from novels to essays to everyday written speech.