پرچم

Etymology
Early attestations in Persian include and  from the mid-1100s.

A Wanderwort of origin, but probably immediately. The Arabic-Turkic dictionary , written in 1074, gives as the Oghuz word for "the tail of a wild ox that warriors wear on the day of battle," with  as the  equivalent. Compare 🇨🇬.

The original meaning is "hair on the yak-tail standard", identical to the Turkic meaning. For unclear reasons, this word was promoted over existing words for "flag," including both the Arabic loan and the native word, during the early twentieth-century language purification reforms. It is now the most common word for "flag".

Noun

 * 1) flag; banner
 * 2)  yak or horse tail hair hung on the  of nomadic armies
 * 3)  lock of hair fluttering over the forehead
 * 1)  yak or horse tail hair hung on the  of nomadic armies
 * 2)  lock of hair fluttering over the forehead
 * 1)  lock of hair fluttering over the forehead

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) flag, banner