Is elakh a word for etc. or is that Arabic?
I recently got a Farsi teacher but he is Iraqi. I asked him how you say etc. and he say elakh الخ and he said that و غیره meant so on. My Iranian friend said she had never heard of elakh before and said tht you should just say ghereh. Do Iranians say and understand elakh? I don't want to say it if it's Arabic. Thanks
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Hi, I have no idea what 'elakh' is, but I can guess it's an Arabic saying for 'etc'. In Persian language you can say 'ela akhar' and 'gheyre' interchangeably. 'ela akhar' literally means 'until the end'.
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elakh is only (but widely) used in WRITEN form of Persian. We never use it in Spoken form. In speaking: gheire غیره, ela akhar الی آخر
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In Persian you have to say: gheyre , write: غیره
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You are right. It is the short form for "ela akhar" which means "and so on".
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