Where does “مائوگرایی” come from?

مائوگرایی (Persian) comes from Persian ـگرایی, from Persian ـیی — form of the suffix.

مائوگرایی (Persian): Maoism

Definitions

  1. Maoism

Ancestry of “مائوگرایی”, step by step

مائوگرایی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Persian ـگرایی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianـگراییa non-joining suffix that forms nouns, with a meaning roughly equivalent to -ism, that is, a belief or something people engage in
2Persianـییform of the suffix

via Persian مائو

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PersianمائوMao
2Mandarin毛—
Every word from Persian ـیی →Every word from Persian ـگرایی →