单词 | Persian |
释义 | Persian/ˈpəːʒ(ə)n![]() noun 1A native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Persia (or Iran), or a person of Persian descent.The ancient Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and East Indians used it to treat certain illnesses....
1.1 (also Persian cat) A long-haired domestic cat of a breed originating in Persia, having a broad round head, stocky body, and short thick legs.By that time Persians and other longhair cats - namely the Angora and the Russian - outnumbered shorthairs four-to-one at shows....
1.2A sheep of a breed common in South Africa. 2 [mass noun] The language of modern Iran, an Indo-European language written in Arabic script. Also called Farsi.Since the 1970s, a growing number of Kurds have rediscovered their non-Turkish roots, based in part on Kurdish, an Indo-European language related to Persian....
2.1An earlier form of Persian spoken in ancient or medieval Persia.While Persian like Turkish has one gender, Sanskrit has three, i.e. male, female and neuter. adjective Relating to ancient Persia or modern Iran or its people or language.Our bus has been chugging uphill out of the city of Shiraz in southern Iran on the road to Persepolis, the ancient Persian capital....
Persian (or Farsi) is spoken by over 30 million people in Iran, by about 5 million in Afghanistan (as Dari), and by another 2.2 million in Tajikistan (as Tajik). Old Persian, written in cuneiform and attested from the 6th century bc, was the language of the Persian empire, which once spread from the Mediterranean to India. In the 2nd century bc the Persians created their own alphabet (Pahlavi), which was used until the Islamic conquest in the 7th century. OriginMiddle English: from Old French persien, from Latin Persia, via Greek from Old Persian pārsa 'Persia' (modern Persian pārs, Arabic fārs). Rhymes |
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