I&#x27;ve been trying to learn Farsi lately and keep getting struck by the large number of French loanwords. Including at least one that goes back to time of the Crusades - my wife&#x27;s Iranian and she always calls me a &quot;Firangi,&quot; which basically just mean &quot;Westerner&quot; now, but is a transliteration of &quot;Frank.&quot; Apparently it also ended up becoming the name for an Indianized variant on the medieval European broadsword:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firangi_(sword)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Firangi_(sword)</a>