Template:Lang-fa/doc

For Middle Persian text (Pahlavi language), see Template:lang-pal.

For Old Persian, see Template:lang-peo.

See also: Template:Old Persian cuneiform

Usage

Template {{lang-fa}} indicates to readers the original form of a term or phrase in Persian. The term or phrase is the only mandatory parameter. The text is formatted according to recommendations in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Foreign terms (italics for Latin-script languages, regular for others).

The parameter |links=no prevents the language name from being linked.

The parameter |lit= enables a literal translation to be given.

Syntax

{{lang-fa

|Persian text – using Persian. (mandatory)

|links=value – valid values: yes to have the language name linked (default) and no to prevent the language name from being linked. (optional)

|lit=string – valid strings are English phrases of Persian. (optional)

|translit=string – valid strings are transliterations (with the Latin script) of Persian text. (optional)

}}

Examples

Code	Result
هزار افسان}}	Persian: هزار افسان‎‎
دهه فجر|lit=ten days of dawn}}	Persian: دهه فجر‎, lit. 'ten days of dawn'‎
Persian|transliteration|lit=literal|links=no}}	Persian: Persian‎, translit. transliteration, lit. 'literal'‎

See also

• {{lang}}, and its opposite, {{Language with name/for}}
• {{rtl-lang|fa}}, for untransliterated Persian-language strings without preceding "Persian:" link.
• {{script|Arab|...}} for Arabic script without specifying a language.
• {{link language}}
• {{fa icon}}

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Lang-fa

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Text", "description": "The foreign text to display.", "type": "string", "required": true }, "links": { "label": "Display link", "description": "Set to no to disable the link to the article's language.", "type": "boolean" }, "lit": { "label": "Literal translation" }, "translit": { "label": "Transliteration", "description": "A Latin alphabet respelling of Persian text", "type": "string" } }, "description": "Insert Persian text. Indicates to readers the original form of a term or phrase in Persian." } </templatedata>