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Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cutis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 317
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دری”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2068
Originally a more poetic or archaic synonym of فارسی(fârsi, “Persian”), referring to all dialects. It was adopted in the 1900s to refer specifically to the varieties of Persian spoken in Afghanistan.
ندارد بدین خط کسی دستگاه بترسم که گردد بیک ره تباه همان به که این را بنظم آوری بپاکیزه گفتار و خط دری
na-dārad bad-ēn xat kasē dastgāh bitarsam ki gardad ba yak rāh tabāh hamān bih ki ēn rā ba nazm āwarī ba pākīza guftār u xat-i darī
Nobody has the skill to read this (Pahlavi) script, I fear that it shall be lost at one stroke. Better that you put it to versified lines, In a purified speech and a Persian (i.e. Perso-Arabic) script.