Search results for "Persian language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
