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> This is how you spell achar in Persian, اچار. Find me a dictionary that has an entry for this word.

Here you go:

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/steingass_query.py?qs=...




Well there you go, so it seems there were records of the word's usage around 1820s. Nice job. I can tell you one thing though. In colloquial Persian, achar for pickle is not used. It sounds odd and usually signifies some relation with Indian style pickles




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