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- regarding the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded ... to work on the transcription of the Persian cuneiform script. He published ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the basics ... *Jones, William. [1771] 1984. Grammar of the Persian Language. Apt ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- Rawlinson initially came into contact with Persian inscriptions while posted ... time he had become proficient in the Persian language, he was sent, together ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- Bisitun or Bisutun, بیستون in modern Persian; in Old Persian is Bagastana ... languages: two languages side by side, Old Persian and Elamite, and Babylonian ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension ... The Persian Gulf and its coastal areas are the world's largest ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- ... I suffered in thirty long span; by Persian language I remade Iran ... within the cultural sphere of the Persian language. Without exception, ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- - Old Persian: Sughuda; سغد ; 粟特 people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the eighteenth in ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E.; Old Persian Dārayawuš: "He Who ... organizer. Darius thoroughly revised the Persian system of administration ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central ... Scholars note that the Samanids revived Persian more than the Buyids and ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian) was a Persian mystic and ... studying a now ancient form of the Persian language. Additionally, Hafez ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- Ancient Greek or شیردال shirdal in Persian) is a legendary creature ... to griffins come out of ancient Persia. In Persian mythology, in particular ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- |children=Old Persian, Ugaritic |unicode=[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U12000 ... languages, and it inspired the Old Persian and Ugaritic national alphabets ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- (modern-day Iraq), which was a part of the Persian Empire. He was an exceptionally ... and allegedly converted a brother of the Persian King Shapur (241-272) to ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- and the Persian culture as well the Persian language. The Persian language ... ==== Timurid literature in Persian language ==== [[Image:Jami Rose ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- the Gulf of Oman, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf. ... trade routes towards the Red Sea. The Persian Gulf was also a vitally ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is ... The name Derbent derives from the Persian darband, meaning closed ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- ====Shallots in Persian cooking==== The shallot in Persian is called موسیر (Moo-Seer), which is often ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- from Arabic (al-)lazward, which came from Persian لاژورد lāzhward. ... The word lazuli originates from the Persian dialect of Badakhshan. ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- on." The word came into the English language as epigraph, which was used ... view (or for the view of a god, as in the Persian Behistun inscription), and ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- the story of Scheherazade (Šahrzād in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who ... The nucleus of the stories is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- Mumtāz Mahal (April 1593 - June 17, 1631) (Persian, Urdu: ممتاز ... nickname of Arjumand Banu Begum, an Indian-Persian Empress in the Mughal Dynasty ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ... to provide paraphrased Gospel versions in language closer to the vernacular ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- Persian and Arabic script is thought to have influenced Indian calligraphy ... ====History of Persian Calligraphy==== The history of calligraphy in ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- are also remembered as great patrons of Persian culture, art, literature ... mainland Persia, where they adopted the Persian culture and language in ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Ilkhanids were rapidly to adopt the Persian language and have their origins ... by 1040 the Seljuks had taken over their Persian domains and a century later ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- In his advance against the Persian king, Cyrus used Greek mercenaries ... read by beginning students of the Greek language. His Hellenica is a chief ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- locations. Nabonidus surrendered to the Persian forces in 539 B.C.E. and ... Assyrian origin. However Nabonidus' Persian successor, Cyrus the Great ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- In 298, the Roman Emperor Diocletian had signed a treaty with his ... quickly repaired the walls while the Persian elephant cavalry became ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty ... E. Yarshater, "Language of Azerbaijan, vii., Persian language ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- Mani (216-276 C.E.), who resided in the Persian Empire. According to biographical ... many high-ranking political figures in the Persian Empire. With the aid of ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- The Huma, also known as the "bird of paradise," is a Persian ... The word huma in the Persian language stands for a fabulous bird. ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- Talc (derived from the Persian via Arabic talq) is a mineral composed of magnesium silicate hydroxide. It is extremely soft, with a greasy feel ...8 KB (1,172 words) - 03:55, 27 February 2023
- Omar Khayyám (Persian عمر خیام; May 18, 1048 – December ... memorable not only for the beauty of its language and the concise gracefulness ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- Cyrus (Old Persian Kourosh or Khorvash, modern Persian: کوروش ... with the words the Great (Vazraka in Old Persian, Bozorg in modern Persian ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- In the tenth century, the Persian mathematician and astronomer Abul ... Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) combined trigonometry ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates. Individual mother ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- zarqun, meaning vermilion, or perhaps from the Persian zargun, meaning golden-colored. These words are corrupted into "jargoon," a term applied ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد ... that al-Farabi's father was of Persian descent. Ibn al-Nadim, among ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- given refuge. Furthermore, the Sassanid Persian kings, who were at constant ... * They allowed the transfer of the school of Edessa to the Persian ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- of Mopsuestia in high esteem. The Sassanid Persian kings, who were at constant ... who traveled and preached throughout the Persian Empire and Central and East ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources considering ... although the empire also administered in Persian and Uyghur. ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- Under the Persian rule, a system of centralized administration with ... By about 380 B.C.E., Persian hold on the region weakened. Many small ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- the flower and its name originated in the Persian Empire. The tulip actually ... parsley got their very names because of their Persian origins. ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- "Hindooism") into the English language in 1816. For many years ... for worship (insisting on Sanksrit, Persian or English). He may have ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Count Ivan Paskevich during a Russo-Persian War (1826-1828), and was ... line of the comedy has become part of the language, and proverbs from Griboyedov ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- architecture. The development of Dakhani language stands out as an important ... on four sides located in the middle of a Persian four-square garden. The ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 09:00, 28 January 2024
- the southern shore of Kuwait Bay off the Persian Gulf. Kuwait City is the ... Located at the heart of the country on the shore of the Persian Gulf ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- with caraway (Carum carvi), also called Persian cumin, which produces similar ... many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- astrologer-priests who once lived in the Persian Empire. Today, the word ... , which is a derivative from Old Persian maguš. The term is a specific ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves ... Sir William Jones to translate a Persian language biography of Nader Shah ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- The best-known member of the genus is the Persian walnut (Juglans ... but has softer wood than the black and Persian walnuts. The seed is of ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Arabic buraq, which comes from either the Persian burah ... or the Middle Persian burak. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/B0399900 ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- means "Seed of Babylon" in that language. It could also related to ... describes the young Zerubbabel as one of the wisest men in the Persian ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- * زردچوبه (zardchubeh) in Persian. * ‘Ōlena in Hawaiian * Gelbwurz (literal: Yellow Root) or Kurkuma in German. * Gurkemeje in Danish. ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- as Rumi, was a mystical thirteenth century Persian Sufi poet, jurist, and theologian ... and ethnic borders. Speakers of the Persian language in Iran, Afghanistan ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer ... has also been known as the Khazar Sea. In Persian antiquity, as well as in ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Samarkand derives its name from the Old Persian asmara, "stone ... conquered it in 329 B.C.E. Although a Persian-speaking region, it was ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- nobility. Here he was taught Latin, English, and Persian, studied mathematics and zoology, and was able to considerably widen his musical experience. ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- are mainly Tajiks, and Tajik is the main language. With the rest of Tajikistan ... The name Dushanbe is derived from the Persian word for "Monday ...15 KB (2,132 words) - 05:29, 4 August 2023
- structure of its kind: the tomb of the Persian King Mausollos, built in ... Turkey) for Mausollus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- chamber when an audience was given to the Persian herald. In return for his ... The Greek language is particularly well-suited to this metrical style ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- The name sitar comes from the Persian language سیتار sehtar; سیہ seh meaning three and تار tar means string. A similar instrument ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- as the only way to discourage or resist Persian and Ottoman aggression, ... thereafter put an end to Russia’s Persian Expedition of 1796, as her ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- approximately 30° north latitude in the Persian Gulf and, thus, has asymmetric ... Oman, Laccadive Sea, Mozambique Channel, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- Qatar has been inhabited for millennia, and was part of the Persian ... from Abu Dhabi, and used as a port for Persian Gulf pirates, was named ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- of poems and travelogues in Urdu language. == Personal life == ... Khan spoke fluent English, Bengali, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu languages. ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- is believed to derive either from the Persian Ashk-ābād meaning "the ... Armenians, and Azeris. The Türkmen language, a member of the East Oghuz ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- a Bahuvrihi compound in the Avestan language, which has been interpreted ... *Avestan zaray/Modern Persian zærd ("yellow" or "golden ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Abu Bakr Al Razi (popularly known as Rhazes), a Persian physician and philosopher who described certain physiological parameters when he went to establish ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- The word pistachio is a Persian loanword, coming into English through Italian, and is a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته Peste'. ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- means "quatrains" in the Persian language. Singular: ruba'i ... Muzaffar Alam, The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Wudu (Arabic: الوضوء al-wuḍū, Persian:آبدست ābdast, Turkish: abdest, Urdu: وضو wazū) is the Islamic act of washing parts of ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded ... (collections of poems) in Azerbaijani, Persian, and possibly Arabic. His ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- Traveling by a Persian boat out of Guangzhou( 廣州), he arrived in Srivijaya (today's Palembang of Sumatra) after 22 days, where he spent ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- parts of Islamic realm. In the late ninth century, Persian astronomer al-Farghani wrote extensively on the motion of celestial bodies. His work was translated ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the ... Akbar, gave him the name Khurram (Persian for 'joyful') ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- after it was written, it was translated into Persian. Bhaskaracharya ... In one of these stories, found in a Persian translation of Lilavati ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 16:27, 21 January 2022
- Báb began his most important work, the Persian Bayán, which he never finished ... The Báb abrogated traditional Islamic law and, in the Persian Bayán ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ... " from the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf respectively. ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- to Ferishta, Mahmoud's mother was a Persian noble from Zabulistan; ... for the promotion and preference of Persian language instead of Turkish and ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
