The transcription system used here for Persian and for Arabic ele-
ments in Persian, aims at simplicity and accuracy, and has been jointly
adopted by Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, Encyclopaedia Persica,
the Persian Heritage Series, the Persian Studies Series, Bibliothèque
Persane, and Meisterwerke der persischen Literature.

	Persian	Arabic		Persian	Arabic		Persian	Arabic
	̓	ض		Ų	ḍ	Vowels
ب	b		ط	ṭ		آ	ا	ā
	p		ظ	ẓ		ى + ٰ	à
ت	t		ع	̒	و	ū
	s + ̱	ṯ	غ	ḡ		ک	ī
	j		ف	f		┄ + ́	a
	č		ق	q		┄ + ̓	o
	ḥ			k		┄ + ȗ	e	(buy iy)
	ḵ			g			e, a	a
	̓+́		ل	l		و + َ	ow	aw
د	d			m		ى + م	ey, ay	ay
ذ	ẕ	ḏ		n
ر	r		و	v	w
ز	z			h
ž	ک			y
س	s
	š
ص	ṣ

Note:

The more familiar and commonly used place names, titles when not
an integral part of the name, and other commonly known words have
been anglicized without diacritics for the sake of simplicity (e.g.,
shah, Isfahan, Turkman, khan, etc.).

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