Persian
['pə:ʃən;-ʒən]
Definition
(noun.) the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms.
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.
(n.) The language spoken in Persia.
(n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.
(n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a.
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Definition
adj. of from or relating to Persia its inhabitants or language.—n. a native of Persia: the language of Persia: (archit.) male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature—also Per′sic.—Persian apple the peach; Persian berry the fruit of several buckthorns; Persian blinds (see Persienne); Persian wheel a large wheel for raising water fixed vertically with a number of buckets at its circumference.
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Examples
- After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fleet followed him by sea, and rejoined him at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kingship received an impetus from the Persian and Greek invasions of the Punjab. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Assisted by a Persian convert, Muhammad had entrenched himself in Medina! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One took Persian money; everybody took Persian money; what did it matter? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They relate how he began to wear the robes and tiara of a Persian monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Persian army was a vast, ill-organized assembly of soldiers, transport, camp followers, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such is the texture of Persian history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And at first the Greek cities of the mainland of Asia paid the tribute and shared in this Persian Peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like the Egyptians, the Babylonians were not greatly concerned at a change of rule to Macedonian from Persian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their language, for the most part, is Turkish, or, rather, a dialect of the Arabic, though many of them speak also the Persian language. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thebes with all B?otia submitted, and was pressed into the Persian army, except one town, Plat?a, whose inhabitants fled to Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Greece was stunned, and Alexander was free to go on with the Persian campaign. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thence they came by way of Mesopotamia to Ormuz on the Persian Gulf, as if they contemplated a sea voyage. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Encouraged by these disasters of the imperial power, the Ionian cities in Asia began for a second time to revolt against the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The population had either to fly or submit to the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Would the Scythians go back and destroy the Persians to make sure of them while the Greeks on their part destroyed the bridge? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The centre and left of the Persians crumpled up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Susa is in the hands of the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereafter Heraclius slowly relinquished all Syria, which he had so lately won back from the Persians, to his new antagonists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By all the laws of the Medes and Persians, said Maurice, kissing her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians, are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. Plato. The Republic.
- They sided with the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All through the night the Arabs smote in the name of Allah, and pressed upon the shattered and retreating Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Macedonia does, indeed, arise in the background of this incurably divided Greece as the Medes and Persians arose behind the Chaldean Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Medes and Persians formed an alliance with the nomadic Semitic Chaldeans of the south for the joint undoing of Assyria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I, for my own part, feel gratitude to the gods that they do not put it into the minds of the Persians to march against the Lydians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If Athens fell, then Hippias was to be its tyrant, under the protection of the Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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