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- one millennium B.C.E., the equally ancient Persian tradition of Musiqi-e assil ... melodic systems were fused with ideas from Persian music, particularly through ...31 KB (4,635 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- Euphrates. Some scholars locate it in the Persian Gulf; others seek a location ... that Eden was located somewhere near the Persian Gulf. This location was ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- of the Zand dynasty, and had reasserted Persian sovereignty over the former ... with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- Nasiruddin Humayun (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March ... Shah Suri, and regained them, only with Persian aid, ten years later. Humayun ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- to recite to him the great epic poems of Persian history. He held French ... "The destiny of this family of high Persian nobility, descended from ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- than the older atashkada, a Classical Persian language term that together with ... Avesta proper, nor is there any old Persian language word for one. Moreover ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- (Persian) (the Arm), * sux-Latn|Gula (Euphratean) * Ied Algeuze (Orion's Hand) * cop-Latn|Klaria (Coptic) (an Armlet) * Yedelgeuse ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- of 244, the Persians counter-attacked. Persian sources claim that a battle ... The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian Wars. London, UK: Routledge ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- to frighten the enemy or to celebrate. The Persian word is sanj or senj ( ... ), but the Shahnameh does not claim these to be Persian in origin ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... title Agha with the Turkic, Mongolian and Persian/Pashto polyvalent title ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- In the Persian period (538-332 B.C.E.), Byblos was the fourth of four ... and the town grew rapidly. Although a Persian colony is known to have ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- Geographically, the Arab world is defined as extending from the Persian ... speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- coast are descended from Arab and Persian Muslim traders who settled ... eastward exodus, the Hui used the Arab, Persian and Han languages. Gradually ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- grave of humanity. However, with the influence of Persian thought and the passing of time, the notion of "hell" crept into Jewish tradition ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- side from the Irtish and the Volga to the Persian Gulf, and on the other from ... called Sharaf ud-Din, author of the Persian Zafarnāma (Persian ظفرنامه ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- resulted in a new word, assassin, in European language The name "assassin ... that drug [hashish] in connection with the Persian Assassins--especially in ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- some 30,000 in each case, while the Persian troops at al-Qadisiyah numbered ... Farisi and az-Zajjaj. All of whom were of Persian descent. They were brought ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital ... #039;s history, invaders included the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great ...23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
- society for the study of poetic language. Later he became one of the ... YAZyka—Society for the Study of Poetic Language), OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) ( ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- on the dating of Ecclesiastes, the language and style of the text certainly ... it borrows several terms from the Persian language, and incorporates vocabulary ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded as ... He is known as Iqbal-e-Lahori (Persian: اقبال لاهوری ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- According to the nineteenth-century language scholar, Heinrich Hubschmann ... In the sixteenth century, control of Nakhichevan passed to the Persian ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- Since then, for over 2700 years, the Persian Jews have lived in the territories ... returned to Judea during the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.E ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language ... == Influence on Persian language == [[File:Firdawsi - Folio from a ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- 鄂爾渾文字) to record the Old Turkic language. == Etymology == ... and "blue" in the Köktürk language, and a similar sounding ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- Little mention is made of the Ammonites through the Persian and early ... with other considerations, that their language was Semitic, closely related ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- of the majority of Ethiopians using its language (Ge'ez) and perpetuating ... Red Sea was of secondary importance to the Persian Gulf and overland connections ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Braj, Old Punjabi, Khariboli, Sanskrit and Persian. Guru Gobind Singh ... assign high degree of sanctity to Gurmukh language script. ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Dubai is situated on the Persian Gulf coast of the United Arab Emirates ... migration of people to other parts of the Persian Gulf. ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- as well as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, and Chinese. ... began, with illustrations for an English-language textbook. She also began ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- *Persian leopard or Iranian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor), Southwest ... , Arabian Peninsula; Often included in the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- East, grenadine was widely used in many Persian foods; it can still be found ... means pomegranate (anar) seeds (dana) in Persian). It is used as a spice ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Catalan albergínia, from Arabic al-badinjan, from Persian badin-gan, from Sanskrit vatin-ganah.). In Indian and South African English, the fruit is ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- Chaldean, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Amharic (Singh ... Young was interested in the evolution of language groups, and divided ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- 758 C.E. His father was Hani, a Syrian or Persian who had served in the army ... Persian imagery corresponding to the Persian language used in this period ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- Alexander is known in Middle Persian literature as Alexander the Cursed ... #039;s death), Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- these new departments. The Barmakids, of Persian extraction, had originally ... Drawing on Persian notions of the king as God's "shadow ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- The name boron can be traced to the Arabic buraq, Persian burah, and Turkish bor, which are words for borax. In early Egypt, the process of mummification ...16 KB (2,239 words) - 19:45, 20 November 2023
- the Qila, which had been built in Afghan-Persian style, the balcony presents ... of the fort. The inscription, in Persian, translates as follows: ...24 KB (3,894 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- and wide circulation of the Uzbek language, as well as on the development ... Bukhara entered history in 500 B.C.E. as vassal state in the Persian ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- of Europe, because of the accessibility, language, knowledge and methods that ... practicing and condemning necromancy. The language, execution and format of ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- and oral texts composed in the Turkish language, either in its Ottoman form ... business was conducted in the Persian language, rather than in Turkish ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- of Greece and incorporate it into the Persian Empire, to secure the weakest ... fled to Sardis to the court of the nearest Persian satrap, Artaphernes, and ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- music is considered to have absorbed Persian and Turkic features, introduced ... music is considered to have absorbed Persian and Turkic features, introduced ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- enjoy a form of bagel known as girdeh nan (from Persian, meaning round bread) , which is one of several types of nan, the bread eaten in Xinjiang.Thomas ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Zirconium (Arabic zarkûn, from Persian zargûn زرگون, meaning "gold like") was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth ...16 KB (2,114 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- The name Baku is derived from the old Persian Bagavan, which translates ... from Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Bahá'u'lláh (Persian بهاء الله : meaning "Glory ... The movement quickly spread across the Persian Empire and received ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- probably hark back to the origins of language and the subcontinent's ... va Demneh dated 1429, from Herat, a [[Persian language|Persian]] translation ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- The language of the Upanishads is Sanskrit, the oldest among them ... and translate them from Sanskrit into Persian, a task that was completed ...28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
- work on a biography. He learned Arabic and Persian. During the First War of ... Muir tried but failed to restore Persian as an official medium of ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Kurdish: Agirî, Greek: Ἀραράτ, Persian: آرارات, Georgian: ... to appear in the world after the Deluge. A Persian legend refers to the Ararat ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... was further strengthened by various Persian immigrant settlers. The ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- Like the other Arab emirates on the Persian Gulf—Kuwait, Bahrain ... when the British sought out Qatar and the Persian Gulf as an intermediary ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- century c.e., but they were expelled by a Persian army that remained in power ... Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- centers of learning to study the Greek language and bring back the masterpieces ... his converts because the Greek, Persian, and Syriac scripts then ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Khan and his brother were freed by the new Persian ruler. The Ghilzai were ... Ahmad Shah wrote a collection of odes in his native Pashto language ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Judah, as the Lord’s chosen leader. The language here is not as finely wrought ... tradition of his prophetic forebears in language, idiom, and point of view ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- , the Armenian Shabat (Շաբաթ), the Persian shambe, Spanish and Portuguese Sábado, the Greek Savato, the Russian "subbota" (суббота ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... | language = English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- of relgion, and the philosophy of language as well as works on aesthetics ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- in 324, Alexander had him marry the Persian princess Artakama. Ptolemy ... the king. Greek, not Egyptian, was the official language. ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- The word caviar is ultimately derived from Persian khavyar, from khaya meaning "egg." The word first appeared in English print in 1591 ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- The name "rose" originates from Persian vrda, via Greek ... in Persia (the word rose itself is from Persian), then spread through Arabia ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- "Baghdad" is that it is a Middle Persian compound of Bag "god ... to Baghdad's distance from the marshy Persian Gulf, dust storms from the ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Originating in tenth century Persian, a ghazal is a poetic form consisting ... Bhajans are often simple songs in lyrical language expressing emotions of love ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer ... a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian ... The Bengali language, with its long and rich literary tradition, serves ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- Muraqaba (Persian: Tamarkoz) is the word used by many Sufis when referring ... Sufism has produced a large body of poetry in Arabic, Turkish, Persian ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- nine and ten, he picked up Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian, while mastering Italian and French. Two years later, he wrote a Syriac grammar for publication ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- religions and culture and quickly learned Persian. He was also involved in ... of Indian politics and to read works in Persian. Meanwhile, due to the Napoleonic ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- his hands in the "lower sea" (Persian Gulf), to show that he had ... became the lingua franca, the official language, of inscriptions in all ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- writings were first translated to the Syriac language by Nestorian monks in the university of Gundishapur, Persia. Muslim scholars primarily in Baghdad ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ... Shaped roughly like a triangle, Kuwait borders the Persian Gulf to ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod]] Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- a number of Sanskrit scientific works into Persian; and the latter produced ... was a poet who composed verse in the Persian language. Akbar had enormous ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- founded by Akbar), and "-ābād" being Persian for "place of." The ancient name of the city is Prayāga (Sanskrit for "place ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:37, 17 May 2021
- native speakers) of the Arabic language. It does not usually include ... A slow resurgence of the Persian language and a re-location of the ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- city is also known by an older English-language name, Canton. It is a port ... According to a local Guangzhou government report, Arab and Persian ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ... French, Italian, Dutch, Yiddish, Latin, Persian, and Arabic. He wrote two ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- However, the writing style and language employed have left scholars ... of the learned. A manuscript in Persian mentions that his first ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 00:15, 5 March 2024
- Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: ... The United Arab Emirates borders the Gulf of Oman and the Persian ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- interest in Oriental arts, and particularly Persian carpets, and even attempted to imitate their texture in his paintings. In 1890, Vrubel moved ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- of western Pakistan. Their Pashto language and the practice of Pashtunwali ... living on the eastern frontier of the Persian Satrapy Arachosia as early ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Retrieved ... marine zoology, meteorology, as a Persian scholar translated Classics ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- al-Baḥrayn), is an island country in the Persian Gulf and is the smallest ... or to the south and north waters of the Persian Gulf, separating it from ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- Almond is called Lawz in Arabic, Baadaam in Persian, Urdu and Hindi. ... in both Ayurveda and Unani Tibb (the Greco-Persian System of Medicine). It ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- reign of Artaxerxes I (465-424 B.C.E.), a Persian monarch who is referenced ... Nehemiah lived during the period when Judah was a province of the ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- as much, if not more, to do with culture, language, and politics as they do ... This church, developed within the Persian Empire, at the east of the ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- from foreign sources, likely from the Persian asparag, meaning "sprout ... grass," thus showing convergent language evolution. ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- century. Many of them speak the Tatar language, a member of the Turkic ... European languages from the Turkish and Persian Tātār. From the beginning ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- was taken in 500-499 B.C.E. by the Persian Empire's military for ... land. The Incas did not have any written language but recorded information ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- ) The Arabic word was itself borrowed from the Persian word mūmiya, meaning "bitumen"; this is also related to another Persian word, mūm ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- non-academic understanding of what "Persian" means, which, in a ... *Perses (Persian) *Heliodromus (sun-courier) *Pater (father) ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- existed under the influence of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty. ... Following the Roman-Persian Wars Khosrow I of the Persian Sassanian ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
