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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Per•sian (pûr′zhən, -shən),USA pronunciation adj. - Language Varieties, Place Namesof or pertaining to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
n. - Place Names, Language Varietiesa member of the native peoples of Iran, descended in part from the ancient Iranians.
- Place Names, Language Varietiesa citizen of ancient Persia.
- Language Varietiesan Iranian language, the principal language of Iran and western Afghanistan, in its historical and modern forms. Cf. Old Persian, Pahlavi, Farsi.
- Architecturea figure of a man used as a column.
- Furniture Persians. See Persian blinds.
- Middle French; replacing Old English Persisc (see -ish1)
- 1325–75; Persi(a) + -an; replacing Middle English Persien
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Persian /ˈpɜːʃən/ adj - of or relating to ancient Persia or modern Iran, their inhabitants, or their languages
n - a native, citizen, or inhabitant of modern Iran; an Iranian
- the language of Iran or Persia in any of its ancient or modern forms, belonging to the West Iranian branch of the Indo-European family
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