Merci

Persian (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən,-ʃ ən /), also known by its endonym farsi (فارسی, fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] (, is a western iranian language belonging to th...

I've always assumed that the english 'mercy' was a cognate from french. such different meanings, when 'merci' is such ...