Hend

در طول تاريخ «ايران» يكي از رايج‌ترين نام‌هاي سرزمين و جغرافياي نام‌هاي ايران بوده‌است. واژهٔ ايران (به پارسي باستان: «اَئيريَه‌نا»، به پارسي ميانه: Eranshahr ، تلفظ با ياي مجهول)، و برگرفته از كلمه «آريانام خَشَترام» و به معناي «سرزمين آريايي‌ها» است كه در گذر زمان به ايران تبديل شده‌است.

اي وطن اي مادر تاريخ ساز

اي مرا بر خاك تو روي نياز

اي كوير تو بهشت جان من

عشق جاويدان من ايران من

اي ز تو هستي گرفته ريشه ام

نيست جز انديشه ات انديشه ام

آرشي داري به تير انداختن

دست بهرامي به شير انداختن

Persian (/ˈpɜːrʒən, -ʃən/), also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] (About this soundlisten)), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as Farsi),[10][11] Afghan Persian (officially known as Dari since 1964)[12] and Tajiki Persian (officially known as Tajik since 1999).[2][13] It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan,[14][15][16] as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivation of the Cyrillic script.