 Gujarati has many loanwords from Persian and Arabic, due to the Mughal invasion of India, and due to the Parsi influx into India after the Arab Invasion of Persia, Persian, Gujarati and Arabic share a some amount of vocabulary, along with Portuguese due to the Portuguese Colonisation of Western India.It is also used by the Parsi community in India and Pakistan to mark Nauroz which occurs in either March or August depending on the specific Zoroastrian calendar used.Hindu Gujarati New Year, also known as Bestu Varas (sitting year), is celebrated the day after the Diwali and is the fourth day of the five-day Diwali festival.