Search results for "Persian language" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
