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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- (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
- 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 (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ), 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ) 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ) 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
- 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
- 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
- part of Thessaly to rule), and the legendary Persian warrior-princess Rhodogune (this doctrine of equal virtues in men and women is also found in ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- While this helped integrate Arab and Persian cultures, it alienated many ... troubles by turning on the Barmakids, the Persian family that had supplied ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- that the name Metatron might be taken from the Persian name Mithras. He lays out a number of parallels between Mithras and Metatron based on their ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- After the Persian wars, Delos became the meeting-ground for the Delian League, founded in 478 B.C.E. The congresses were held in its temple, ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- Under the charge of Maulvi Hamiduddin, Sir Syed was trained in Persian ... adoption of Hindi as a second official language of the United Provinces ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto language: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, or Persian ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- with Zeus Ammon in his account of the Persian War. Zeus Ammon was especially ... * Wren, Brian. What Language Shall I Borrow? God-talk in Worship: ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- While Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and other Persian and Muslim philosophers ... Besides his Urdu and Persian poetical work, The Reconstruction of ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with Ancient ... believed they could detect a substrate language beneath Sumerian. However ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- when Cambyses conquered Egypt. In the Persian Empire, Cyprus formed part ... in order to liberate Cyprus from Persian rule, but these efforts ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- and unforeseen consequences—the Persian invasion by Xerxes I led ... all over Asia; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it "drank ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- dome of the palace presents a beautiful example of Persian architecture. Two Persian inscriptions record the visits of Akbar and Jehangir to the palace ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- has been influenced by its Turkic peoples, Persian, Islamic, and Central Asian ... The South Caucasus was eventually conquered by the first Persian Achaemenid ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- The Corpus was in Latin, the traditional language of the Roman Empire, but ... Like many of his predecessors in the Roman-Persian Wars, Justinian ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ... and went further in this promotion of language than his earlier injunction ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- majority of Ashkenazi Jewry, is a Jewish language which developed from the ... In Mesopotamia and in Persian lands free of Roman imperial domination ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- witnessed the highest achievement of Persian civilization, constituting ... as well as a monumental inscription in Persian and Greek in the vicinity ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- with the Iranian people, and speak the Tajik language. After independence ... valley. The name is derived from the Persian word for "Monday" ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- is "thumus" in the Greek language, and may be the inspiration ... in Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, and Persian cuisines, and in those derived ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
- Company, who was proficient in Bengali, and Persian languages. ... Ghulam Husain Salim, [http://persian.packhum.org/persian/ Riyazu-s ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- However, Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church. ... devastating wars between the Byzantine and Persian Empires of the early seventh ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Turkey, marking the grave of King Mausollos, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. One of ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- Nazrul studied Bengali, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian literature and classical ... Chandra Chattopadhyay, as well as the Persian poet Hafiz. He learned Persian ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- The name 'Sai Baba' is a combination of Persian and Indian ... ! Year !! Film !! Title role !! Director !! Language !! Notes ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- the Turkic word dağ meaning mountain and Persian suffix stan, meaning "land ... Iberia and Armenia was conquered by the Persian Sassanid Empire (226-651 ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Between CE 813 and 833, Persian mathematician Al-Khawarizmi (Abu Ja ... quot; system—that is, a programming language that has a computational ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- - and professed a Persian genealogy.[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article ... syntactical forms. He maintained that language by itself provided everything ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- In April 1996, the BBC World Service Saudi-based Arabic language TV ... views regarding the governments of many Persian Gulf states, including Saudi ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- |languages=Egyptian language |fam1=(Proto-writing) |children=Hieratic ... quot; to refer to both the language as a whole and the individual ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- quot;), the music industry was dominated by Persian classical singers. Vigan combined Persian melodies and Persian lyrics with Guitar. Compared by ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- The Phoenician language is counted among the Canaanite languages in ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The kingdom of Aksum had its own written language called Ge'ez ... itself with the Byzantium Empire against the Persian Empire. ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- He also invented the Lisp programming language. Joseph Weizenbaum built ... Colmerauer developed the Prolog computer language. Ted Shortliffe demonstrated ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- science. After a peace treaty between the Persian and the Byzantine empire ... body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- Greek and Latin, as well as Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. In 1844 Müller ... a time when scholars had started to see language development in relation ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat HaMachpela, Trans. "Cave of the Double Tombs"), called by Muslims ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Bible was translated into the Georgian language in the fifth century. ... English Georgia derives from the modern Persian word for the Georgians, ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- of these states became a part of Persian Achaemenid Dynasty in the ... eighth century C.E. A century later, the Persian Samanid dynasty established ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- quot; Hindi, -ānā = "of the" Persian). Most performers and scholars recognize two styles of gharana: Dilli Baj and Purbi Baj. Dilli ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- the Great's and his Macedonian and Persian armies. By 316 B.C.E. the ... rivaled the splendors of contemporaneous Persian sites such as Susa and Ecbatana ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- his third voyage, sailing to Hormuz on the Persian Gulf. On his return he touched ... southward down the Arabian coast, the Persian Gulf and Arabia, visiting ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- in Seoul (서울) in the Modern Korean language. Today, "Seoul" ... "Silla-people") in the language of the Yamato Japanese and ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf. In 1562, he conquered ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- French rule in the region also solidified language throughout and instituted ... and domestic servants in the Arabian and Persian gulfs. ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- There are English language-guided tours through many of the palace ... of Millions, decorated with Indian and Persian miniatures—a truly grand ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- from Latin into English, Arabic, Persian and Chinese by Edward Pococke for use in missionary work in the East and remained in print until the ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- refers to literature written in the Greek language from the earliest texts ... ancient legends. The stories are told in language that is simple, direct, ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent ... masterpieces written in the Old Russian language (usually referred to as ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- The official language is Arabic. English is used widely in commerce and government and among educated people. Arabic and English must be taught ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Persian sovereignty lasted until the Persians were defeated at the hands of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great. In 333 B.C.E., Alexander ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
