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32 no gender. Of such words as pader, "father,"  māder, "mother," the gender is self-evident; and in cases where it is necessary to make the distinction other additional words are used, such as  māda, "female,"  nar, "male;" thus,  gāv i nar, "a bull,"  gāv i māda, "a cow." For human beings, mard, "man,"  zan, "woman," are added; as  pīr i mard, "an old man,"  pīr i zan, "an old woman."

Sometimes different words are employed, as in English, to distinguish the sexes; as ghūch, "a ram,"  mīsh, "a ewe" (but in literary Persian  signifies "a ram");  asp, "a horse,"  mādiyān "a mare;"  khurūs, "a cock,"  mākiyān, "a hen."

The Personal Pronouns are:

The only thing to notice in man and  tu is that in the objective cse they become  měrā (for man+rā),  turā (for tū+rā), the nasal  and the long vowel both becoming absorbed.

In īn and  ū, and their plurals, we notice the same