Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> Raymond Roy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > according to Wehr, there is a verb 'tafarzana' derived from the
> > (Persian?) root 'frzn' (queen in chess). Now, Wehr classifies it in
> the
>
> firza:n "chess queen"
>
> new persian farzi:n ("chess queen", wise, learned man); middle
persian
> fra*ch*i:n (probably intepreted as "advisor" perhaps taken as plural
> fara:zi:n by arabic)
>
> new persian farza:n "wisdom, learning, wise"
Hence Russian ferz' (see, for example, Nabokov's "Zashchita Luzhina"
_passim_).
Nigel
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