Where does “نخبه‌گرایی” come from?

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

نخبه‌گرایی (Persian): elitism

Definitions

  1. elitism

Ancestry of “نخبه‌گرایی”, step by step

نخبه‌گرایی 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 نخبه

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianنخبهelite
Every word from Persian ـیی →Every word from Persian ـگرایی →