Definitions

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  • adjective Archaic form of Persian.
  • noun Archaic form of Persian.
  • proper noun Archaic form of Persian.

Etymologies

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Latin Persicus, from Ancient Greek περσικός (persikós).

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Examples

  • Soffarian Dynasties) has been lately published in Persic and Latin,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Hazár Afsánah was translated from Persic into Arabic nearly a thousand years ago, it had ample time and verge enough to assume another and a foreign dress, the corpus however remaining untouched.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Law of Moses,” before this was vivified and racially baptised by Mesopotamian and Persic influences.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Al-asnam as cases in point; but I should expect, for reasons before given, to find the stories in a Persic rather than an Arabic

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Volumes are spoken by the fact that the Arab adapter did not venture to change the Persic names of the two heroines and of the royal brothers or to transfer the mise - en-scène any whither from Khorasan or outer Persia.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Afsánah is its being the archetype of The Nights, unquestionably proving that the Arab work borrows from the Persian bodily its cadre or frame-work, the principal characteristic; its exordium and its dénoûement, whilst the two heroines still bear the old Persic names.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  •     One to be taught gross rites Persic, a Magian he.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     One to be taught gross rites Persic, a Magian he.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • The fortifications are on an Arabic Persic model — combining Arab neatness with

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • It was an outlandish place, Galatia, a Celtic outpost in a sub-continent peopled by those of Persic, Syriac, Germanic and Hittite strains; all save the Syriacs tended to be fair, at least of skin, but not fair like these Celtic immigrants descended from the second King Brennus of the Gauls.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

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