Tarzi Afshar (Persian: طرزی افشار, Azerbaijani: طرزی افشار) was a 17th-century poet in Safavid Iran who wrote in the Persian and Azerbaijani languages. He is the author of a small divan of "humorous poems", written in an amalgam of Persian and Azerbaijani known as Tarzilik.^[1] Later, for some time, this type of poetry became relatively popular at the Safavid court in Isfahan.^[1] Tarzi Afshar originally hailed from Rey.^[1]

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