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  • to mastering English—adding this language to the Arabic, French, Persian ... On the occasion of some Persian believers asking him about a successor ...
    19 KB (3,025 words) - 14:24, 27 January 2023
  • stones, ship caulking, and waterproofing. The Persian word for asphalt is mumiya, which may be related to the English word mummy. Asphalt was also used ...
    10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
  • in Indian literature. Written in Sanskrit language and Hale Kannada script ... of Persia Khosrau II, his reception of the Persian ambassador depicted in one ...
    12 KB (1,818 words) - 23:43, 2 December 2022
  • The word bazaar derives from the Persian word bāzār, the etymology of which goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char (بهاچار) meaning ...
    13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
  • —"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... of Islamic mysticism in universal language, inviting one to live for ...
    25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
  • under Ezra, acting as the agent of the new Persian king Artaxerxes. Ezra's ... foundation, and as the agent of a new Persian king, Artaxeres. He renews ...
    11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
  • or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ... it from Sanskrit into the middle Persian language of Pahlavi, transliterated ...
    24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
  • ended. He was captured and executed by the Persian King. In fact, he had made ... and the father heading East to face the Persian threat. ...
    18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
  • محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ... born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 C.E. In Persian, Razi means "from the ...
    24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
  • Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton ... 138: Tea,] The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Max Planck ...
    16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
  • where the tree and the fruit are known by the Persian-derived names Toot (mulberry) or Shahtoot (King's or "Superior" mulberry). Jams ...
    11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
  • Naidu learned to speak Urdu, Telugu, English, Persian and Bengali. Her favorite poet was P.B. Shelley. She attained national fame for entering ...
    13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
  • frontier with Al-Shariqah. In the north is the Persian Gulf. ... The emirate has oil rich fields, both onshore and in the Persian Gulf ...
    19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
  • Klaus Koch. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. (Philidelphia: ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...
    13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
  • was originally named Bagh-e-Badshahi (Persian: Garden of the Master Kings ... of Pakistan began there. The Bengali Language Movement started there in ...
    25 KB (3,589 words) - 18:25, 6 January 2024
  • Samovar, pronounced as samāvar in Persian was originally imported from Russia. Iranian craftsmen used Persian art and Kurdish art to produce ...
    16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
  • Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: ... . A vast majority of the populations of Persian Gulf countries (including ...
    24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
  • point between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf (known by Arabs as ... trade location on the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf to further its economic ...
    14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
  • the Arsacids in Parthia and began the new Persian Sassanid dynasty. The Sassanids ... less suspect" to their powerful Persian neighbors. ...
    18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
  • the Middle Ages, Tengri received the Persian name “Khodai.” Even ... During the Middle Ages, Tengri received the Persian name “Khodai ...
    15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023

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