Parseen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɑːˈsiː/,

/ˈpɑːsiː/, U.S.

/ˌpɑrˈsi/,

/ˈpɑrsi/

Forms: 1600s Parcee, 1600s Parsey, 1600s Parsie, 1600s Parsy, 1600s Persie, 1600s–1800s Persee, 1600s– Parsee, 1600s– Parsi.

Origin: A borrowing from Persian. Etymon: Persian Pārsī.

Etymology: < Persian Pārsī person from Pars, Persian language < Pārs , the ancient name for the central southern region of Persia which was the place of origin of the Achaemenian dynasty and, in the Achaemenian and Sassanian periods, had its capital at Persepolis (corresponding to present-day Fārs , a province of south-western Iran with its capital at Shiraz; compare Persian n.) + -ī -i suffix². Compare French Parsi Persian, Zoroastrian (1653 in sense ‘Zoroastrian in India’, 1732 as adjective). Compare earlier Persian n., Perse n.¹Compare isolated use in Middle English of Parse , Parce (which occurs elsewhere in Middle English as the name of Persia; compare Persian n. and adj., Perse n.¹) in the sense ‘the language of the Persians’:c1450 J. Metham Palmistry (Garrett) in Wks. (1916) 84 Mastyr Arystotyl translatyd yt owte of Parce into Grwe.

A. n.

1. An adherent of Zoroastrianism; spec. a descendant of the Zoroastrian Persians who fled to India after the Islamic conquest of Persia to escape Muslim persecution. Cf. Guebre n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > Parsee

Parsee1625

society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Zoroastrianism > [noun] > person

Persian1613

Parsee1625

fire-worshipper1638

Guebre1687

Zoroastrian1811

mobed1815

Zend1819

Zarathustrian1871

Mazdaean1881

Mazdaist1920

1625 E. Terry Relation Voy. Easterne India iv, in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. 1479 There is one sect among the Gentiles, which neither burne not interre their dead (they are called Parcees).

1630 H. Lord (title) The religion of the Persees, as it was compiled from a booke of theirs.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 74 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Parsis believe that there is but one God, preserver of the Universe.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 197 The Parsies..are of the old stock of the Persians, worship the Sun and Adore the Elements.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xiv. 158 The Parsees are numerous about Surat.

1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. ii. 829/2 The Parsees,..the ancient Persians who fled from the swords of the Mahometans, into..India.

a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) xii. 260 The Mahometans are the next in number, and the Persees the least.

1791 R. E. Raspe tr. G. E. Lessing Nathan the Wise ii. ii. 29 The Jew, the Christian, the Parsee, and the Musselman, are equally welcome.

1823–4 Encycl. Metrop. XV. 689/2 Just as Gibraltar has been humorously termed the Paradise of the Jews, so may Bombay be called the Paradise of the Pársís.

1881 19th Cent. Mar. 500 The Pārsīs, who are merely colonists in India, derive their name from Pārs (in Arabic, Fārs), the proper name of a particular province of their mother-country.

1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iv. 189 Purple-faced Europeans in immaculate suits, boots and basket hats rubbed shoulders with long-nosed Parsis dressed in frock-coats, white trousers, dome-like mitres.

1988 Classical Q. New Ser. 38 249 Parsees have a rule (only relaxed in dire circumstances) that corpses should be exposed to vultures.

2. Now usually in form Parsi. The language of Iran; = Farsi n. and adj.Also: the transcription of Zoroastrian Middle Persian using the Arabic script of modern Iranian Persian (cf. Pahlavi n., Pazand n.). The language of the Parsees of India is principally Gujarati.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > Persian

Persian1556

Parsee1631

Persic?c1663

Parsic1898

Farsi1926

Hazaragi1962

1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian viii. 141 In Gypsie or Persie what they were expound.

1790 W. Jones in Asiatick Researches (1791) 2 50 Besides the Pársì and Pahlavì, a very ancient and abstruse tongue was known to the priests and philosophers, called the language of the Zend.

1801 S. Rousseau Flowers of Persian Lit. Pref. 11 The modern dialect of Persia,..being spoken by the natives of Pars or Farsistan, acquired the name of Parsi.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 479/2 As to the Derí or Parsí, after it became the language of the court, it was very much cultivated by the Sassanian kings.

1881 19th Cent. Jan. 160 Pārsī is merely a form of vernacular Persian, later than Pahlavī.

1922 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 2 217 There is no such thing now existent as Middle-Persian, unless we take Parsī as an early, and the Shāhnāma as a late specimen of it.

1968 P. van Popta-Hope tr. J. Rypka Hist. Iranian Lit. 34 In the Arab period Iranian Zoroastrian writers turned to new alphabets and attempted to use them for writing down Middle Persian texts phonetically. The writings in the Avestan alphabet are called Pāzand, those in the Arabic consonantal writing are called Pārsī.

1979 Newsweek (Nexis) 3 Dec. 50 One hostage,..who speaks Parsi, began to strike up a relationship with one of her female guards.

2002 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Oct. (Office Hours section) 5 She has mastered around a dozen words in Hindi, Urdu, Dardic, Arabic and Parsi.

B. adj.

That is a Parsee (sense A. 1); of or relating to the Parsees or their religion or culture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [adjective] > Parsee

Parsee1698

Parsic1854

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia Table Parsy-Tombs in Persia the same as in India.

1777 J. Richardson Diss. Eastern Nations 10 The wretched rhymes of a modern Parsi Destour.

?1815–16 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1949) IX. 646 Poor parsee man work hard.

1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ix. 555 Daily objects of Parsee-worship.

1894 R. H. Elliot Gold in Mysore 224 A Parsee gentleman, whose unceasing efforts to aid the progress of India entitle him to be placed in the very highest rank.

1969 Enactment (Delhi) Oct. 2/2 This sort of thing did lead to the Parsi theatre, which was three dimensional and had the continuity of the cinema.

1992 Harper's Mag. June 49/2 That is more than I learned in four years of living in India, which has many cuisines: northern, southern, Parsee, Goan, for example.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	parsee
释义	Parseen.adj. Brit. /ˌpɑːˈsiː/, /ˈpɑːsiː/, U.S. /ˌpɑrˈsi/, /ˈpɑrsi/ Forms: 1600s Parcee, 1600s Parsey, 1600s Parsie, 1600s Parsy, 1600s Persie, 1600s–1800s Persee, 1600s– Parsee, 1600s– Parsi. Origin: A borrowing from Persian. Etymon: Persian Pārsī. Etymology: < Persian Pārsī person from Pars, Persian language < Pārs , the ancient name for the central southern region of Persia which was the place of origin of the Achaemenian dynasty and, in the Achaemenian and Sassanian periods, had its capital at Persepolis (corresponding to present-day Fārs , a province of south-western Iran with its capital at Shiraz; compare Persian n.) + -ī -i suffix². Compare French Parsi Persian, Zoroastrian (1653 in sense ‘Zoroastrian in India’, 1732 as adjective). Compare earlier Persian n., Perse n.¹Compare isolated use in Middle English of Parse , Parce (which occurs elsewhere in Middle English as the name of Persia; compare Persian n. and adj., Perse n.¹) in the sense ‘the language of the Persians’:c1450 J. Metham Palmistry (Garrett) in Wks. (1916) 84 Mastyr Arystotyl translatyd yt owte of Parce into Grwe. A. n. 1. An adherent of Zoroastrianism; spec. a descendant of the Zoroastrian Persians who fled to India after the Islamic conquest of Persia to escape Muslim persecution. Cf. Guebre n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > Parsee Parsee1625 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Zoroastrianism > [noun] > person Persian1613 Parsee1625 fire-worshipper1638 Guebre1687 Zoroastrian1811 mobed1815 Zend1819 Zarathustrian1871 Mazdaean1881 Mazdaist1920 1625 E. Terry Relation Voy. Easterne India iv, in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. 1479 There is one sect among the Gentiles, which neither burne not interre their dead (they are called Parcees). 1630 H. Lord (title) The religion of the Persees, as it was compiled from a booke of theirs. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 74 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Parsis believe that there is but one God, preserver of the Universe. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 197 The Parsies..are of the old stock of the Persians, worship the Sun and Adore the Elements. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xiv. 158 The Parsees are numerous about Surat. 1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. ii. 829/2 The Parsees,..the ancient Persians who fled from the swords of the Mahometans, into..India. a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) xii. 260 The Mahometans are the next in number, and the Persees the least. 1791 R. E. Raspe tr. G. E. Lessing Nathan the Wise ii. ii. 29 The Jew, the Christian, the Parsee, and the Musselman, are equally welcome. 1823–4 Encycl. Metrop. XV. 689/2 Just as Gibraltar has been humorously termed the Paradise of the Jews, so may Bombay be called the Paradise of the Pársís. 1881 19th Cent. Mar. 500 The Pārsīs, who are merely colonists in India, derive their name from Pārs (in Arabic, Fārs), the proper name of a particular province of their mother-country. 1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iv. 189 Purple-faced Europeans in immaculate suits, boots and basket hats rubbed shoulders with long-nosed Parsis dressed in frock-coats, white trousers, dome-like mitres. 1988 Classical Q. New Ser. 38 249 Parsees have a rule (only relaxed in dire circumstances) that corpses should be exposed to vultures. 2. Now usually in form Parsi. The language of Iran; = Farsi n. and adj.Also: the transcription of Zoroastrian Middle Persian using the Arabic script of modern Iranian Persian (cf. Pahlavi n., Pazand n.). The language of the Parsees of India is principally Gujarati. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > Persian Persian1556 Parsee1631 Persic?c1663 Parsic1898 Farsi1926 Hazaragi1962 1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian viii. 141 In Gypsie or Persie what they were expound. 1790 W. Jones in Asiatick Researches (1791) 2 50 Besides the Pársì and Pahlavì, a very ancient and abstruse tongue was known to the priests and philosophers, called the language of the Zend. 1801 S. Rousseau Flowers of Persian Lit. Pref. 11 The modern dialect of Persia,..being spoken by the natives of Pars or Farsistan, acquired the name of Parsi. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 479/2 As to the Derí or Parsí, after it became the language of the court, it was very much cultivated by the Sassanian kings. 1881 19th Cent. Jan. 160 Pārsī is merely a form of vernacular Persian, later than Pahlavī. 1922 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 2 217 There is no such thing now existent as Middle-Persian, unless we take Parsī as an early, and the Shāhnāma as a late specimen of it. 1968 P. van Popta-Hope tr. J. Rypka Hist. Iranian Lit. 34 In the Arab period Iranian Zoroastrian writers turned to new alphabets and attempted to use them for writing down Middle Persian texts phonetically. The writings in the Avestan alphabet are called Pāzand, those in the Arabic consonantal writing are called Pārsī. 1979 Newsweek (Nexis) 3 Dec. 50 One hostage,..who speaks Parsi, began to strike up a relationship with one of her female guards. 2002 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Oct. (Office Hours section) 5 She has mastered around a dozen words in Hindi, Urdu, Dardic, Arabic and Parsi. B. adj. That is a Parsee (sense A. 1); of or relating to the Parsees or their religion or culture. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [adjective] > Parsee Parsee1698 Parsic1854 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia Table Parsy-Tombs in Persia the same as in India. 1777 J. Richardson Diss. Eastern Nations 10 The wretched rhymes of a modern Parsi Destour. ?1815–16 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1949) IX. 646 Poor parsee man work hard. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel ix. 555 Daily objects of Parsee-worship. 1894 R. H. Elliot Gold in Mysore 224 A Parsee gentleman, whose unceasing efforts to aid the progress of India entitle him to be placed in the very highest rank. 1969 Enactment (Delhi) Oct. 2/2 This sort of thing did lead to the Parsi theatre, which was three dimensional and had the continuity of the cinema. 1992 Harper's Mag. June 49/2 That is more than I learned in four years of living in India, which has many cuisines: northern, southern, Parsee, Goan, for example. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1625
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