It is actually much simplier than that. The word you&#x27;re speaking of is &quot;Farangi&quot; which is Farsi for foreigner.<p>Farsi is an indo-european language so beside loan words which infiltrated the language during Reza Shah&#x27;s moderinization of Iran, many of them actually share the same root as other Indo-European languages like English, French or German.<p>Farangi is one of those words. It is not a borrowed word