Etymology ยท Old Persian
๐ฑ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ
6 English words descend from Old Persian ๐ฑ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ, most common first.
- PersianOf, from, or pertaining to Persia.
- PersiaIran, a country in West Asia.
- parsA province and historical region in southwestern Iran, homeland of the Persians; known to the ancient Greeks as ฮ ฮตฯฯฮฏฯ (Persรญs) or ฮ ฮตฯฯฮนฮบฮฎ (Persikแธ), to the Romans as Persis or Persia, and to the Arabs as ููุงุฑูุณ (fฤris).
- ParsiA member of the larger and older of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent (the other community being that of the Iranis).
- PersepolisThe ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.
- PersisA region of ancient Iran in its southwest; modern Fars province.