Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- See Bakhtaran.
Examples
“A recount of votes in Kermanshah, a Kurdish province, showed that 'there has been no irregularity,' the news agency reported.”
The Huffington Post: Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
“Doris Lessing was born on 22 October 1919 to British parents in Kermanshah in what was then known as Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor.”
“Doris Lessing (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, on 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.”
doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“Her perspective is different from my parents' -- her late first husband was from a town called Kermanshah, which is not far from the border with Iraq.”
“The above list of the tribes of Kermanshah is the one to which I can least trust.”
“The same websites reported that protest gatherings also took place in universities in other Iranian cities such as Kermanshah,”
“The same websites reported that demonstrators gathered at universities in other Iranian cities such as Kermanshah, Mashad and Shiraz.”
“They began by establishing a tiny HIV/AIDS clinic in their hometown of Kermanshah, a western town near where heroin flows across the Iraqi border into Iran.”
USA Today: Iranian doctor works to free AIDS pioneer brother
“Iran's opposition says anti-government activists also marched in other cities Monday, including Isfahan, Shiraz and Kermanshah.”
Voice of America: Iranian Lawmakers Demand Death Penalty for Opposition Leaders
“Demonstrations were also reportedly held in other cities across Iran, including Isfahan, Shiraz and Kermanshah.”
Voice of America: Iranian Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters, Arrest Dozens
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Kermanshah’.
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Reading between the colors of the rai...
Colors you won't see every day - or at least, you won't recognize every day. Here are the words for the colors you never knew you saw.
Grenadine, Coquelicot, Rodeo dust, Dubonnet, Palmetto, Meerschaum, Arsenic, Smalt, Verdigris, Froly, Rubellite, Heliotrope and 84 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Kermanshah.
chained_bear "A bronze Venus posed coquettishly on the mantelpiece, companioned by a pair of gold-rimmed porcelain bowls and silver-gilt candelabra, blazing with beeswax candles. A close-napped carpet that I recognized as a very good Kermanshah covered most of the floor and a spinet crouched in one corner...."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 822 Jan 3, 2010