Where does “نخبه‌گرا” come from?

نخبه‌گرا (Persian) comes from Persian ـگرا — a non-joining suffix that forms nouns, with a meaning roughly equivalent to -ist, that is, one who believes or engages in.

نخبه‌گرا (Persian): elitist

Definitions

  1. elitist

Ancestry of “نخبه‌گرا”, step by step

نخبه‌گرا traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Persian ـگرا

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianـگراa non-joining suffix that forms nouns, with a meaning roughly equivalent to -ist, that is, one who believes or engages in

via Persian نخبه

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianنخبهelite
Every word from Persian ـگرا