Rouhani meets Erdogan in Ankara

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1075673632540479489

 

[Taskforce]

Does asker mean army in Iranian too?

 

[Tokhme khar]

Correct.

Does asker mean army in Iranian too?

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Does asker mean army in Iranian too?

No. Farsi is Indo European. Turkish is Altaic. Not even the same language family. I suppose he was speaking a Turkish word.

 

[xenon54 out]

No. Farsi is Indo European. Turkish is Altaic. Not even the same language family. I suppose he was speaking a Turkish word.

Did you even consider that Asker is actually an Arabic word?

 

[raptor22]

Did you even consider that Asker is actually an Arabic word?

No idea why he said that ... serving in Army never heard of it be used..maybe he thought both nations are Muslim so they can understand Arabic ..?//?!!!

 

[like_a_boss]

No idea why he said that ... serving in Army never heard of it be used..maybe he thought both nations are Muslim so they can understand Arabic ..?//?!!!

Ceremonial

 

[Hack-Hook]

Does asker mean army in Iranian too?

It's Arabic word we don't use it we say Artesh or Sipah for army .
In iran people tends to knew the meaning of Asker because it come after the name of our 11th Imam because he was imprisoned in an army Barack .

 

[Taskforce]

It's Arabic word we don't use it we say Artesh or Sipah for army .
In iran people tends to knew the meaning of Asker because it come after the name of our 11th Imam because he was imprisoned in an army Barack .

Sipahi was used for elite horse soldiers.

 

[raptor22]

Ceremonial

In Turkey maybe not Iran, during parade the commander of the parading ground would use "Kheili khob" or "Khob" to praise the performance of troops.

 

[Sam.]

Sipahi was used for elite horse soldiers.

Sipahi is used as normal foot soldiers in India.

सिपाही
Transliterated version: sipahi.
पुल्लिंग

1. 1.
   पुलिस विभाग का एक साधारण कर्मचारी, कांस्टेबल।
2. 2.
   फ़ौजी आदमी, सैनिक।

Translated to English by me -
1 - Constable in police department
2- Army man, Soldier

 

[Tokhme khar]

Askar or Askari is a word in Persian. Its also used as a name in Iran. However we use artesh for army.