# I cann't search Persian (Farsi) in es

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannt-search-persian-farsi-in-es/160127>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannt-search-persian-farsi-in-es/160127 "2018-12-10T09:06:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannt-search-persian-farsi-in-es/160127/1 "2018-12-10T09:06:10Z")

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Hi,  
The language of my documents is Persian.  
Now when I search with Persian language , I don't get any results.  
my index name is : 'course\_cats'  
and results of GET '[http://localhost:9200/course\_cats](http://localhost:9200/course_cats)' is as follow :  
{  
"course\_cats": {  
"aliases": {},  
"mappings": {  
"\_doc": {  
"properties": {  
"descriptions": {  
"type": "text",  
"analyzer": "persian"  
},  
"id": {  
"type": "integer"  
},  
"name": {  
"type": "text",  
"analyzer": "persian"  
},  
"parent": {  
"type": "integer"  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"settings": {  
"index": {  
"number\_of\_shards": "5",  
"provided\_name": "course\_cats",  
"creation\_date": "1544430822848",  
"analysis": {  
"filter": {  
"persian\_stop": {  
"type": "stop",  
"stopwords": "_persian_"  
}  
},  
"analyzer": {  
"persian": {  
"filter": [  
"lowercase",  
"decimal\_digit",  
"arabic\_normalization",  
"persian\_normalization",  
"persian\_stop"  
],  
"char\_filter": [  
"zero\_width\_spaces"  
],  
"tokenizer": "standard"  
}  
},  
"char\_filter": {  
"zero\_width\_spaces": {  
"type": "mapping",  
"mappings": [  
"\u200C=\> "  
]  
}  
}  
},  
"number\_of\_replicas": "1",  
"uuid": "rs23knx2QWCEPGbEI5OYpQ",  
"version": {  
"created": "6040199"  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}

pls help me!

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**Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cannt-search-persian-farsi-in-es/160127/2 "2019-01-07T09:06:10Z")

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