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  • works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure ...
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  • Fuzuli was an Azerbaijani poet who wrote poetry in his native language, Persian and Arabic. He is claimed by not only the Azerbaijanis, but also ...
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  • * Persian * Portuguese * Romanian * Russian * Spanish * Tamil ... Category:Language navigational boxes Category:List templates by topic ...
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  • or óruza, from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian ... to be either a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian ...
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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 ...
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  • |name = Language phonologies |title = Phonologies of the world's ... * American Sign Language * Arabic ** Modern Standard ** Egyptian ...
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  • linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the basics ... *Jones, William. [1771] 1984. Grammar of the Persian Language. Apt ...
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  • Rawlinson initially came into contact with Persian inscriptions while posted ... time he had become proficient in the Persian language, he was sent, together ...
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  • Bisitun or Bisutun, بیستون in modern Persian; in Old Persian is Bagastana ... languages: two languages side by side, Old Persian and Elamite, and Babylonian ...
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  • The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension ... The Persian Gulf and its coastal areas are the world's largest ...
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  • |list1 = Buddhist Chinese Greek Hellenistic Hindu Indian Jain Persian ... Healthcare History Human nature Humor Language Law Literature Mathematics ...
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  • ... I suffered in thirty long span; by Persian language I remade Iran ... within the cultural sphere of the Persian language. Without exception, ...
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  • - Old Persian: Sughuda; سغد ; 粟特 people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the eighteenth in ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central ... Scholars note that the Samanids revived Persian more than the Buyids and ...
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  • محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian) was a Persian mystic and ... studying a now ancient form of the Persian language. Additionally, Hafez ...
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  • Ancient Greek or شیردال shirdal in Persian) is a legendary creature ... to griffins come out of ancient Persia. In Persian mythology, in particular ...
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  • |children=Old Persian, Ugaritic |unicode=[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U12000 ... languages, and it inspired the Old Persian and Ugaritic national alphabets ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • and the Persian culture as well the Persian language. The Persian language ... ==== Timurid literature in Persian language ==== [[Image:Jami Rose ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is ... The name Derbent derives from the Persian darband, meaning closed ...
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  • ====Shallots in Persian cooking==== The shallot in Persian is called موسیر (Moo-Seer), which is often ...
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  • from Arabic (al-)lazward, which came from Persian لاژورد lāzhward. ... The word lazuli originates from the Persian dialect of Badakhshan. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the story of Scheherazade (Šahrzād in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who ... The nucleus of the stories is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian ...
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  • Mumtāz Mahal (April 1593 - June 17, 1631) (Persian, Urdu: ممتاز ... nickname of Arjumand Banu Begum, an Indian-Persian Empress in the Mughal Dynasty ...
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  • There has even been disagreement about what language Tatian used for ... to provide paraphrased Gospel versions in language closer to the vernacular ...
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  • Persian and Arabic script is thought to have influenced Indian calligraphy ... ====History of Persian Calligraphy==== The history of calligraphy in ...
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  • are also remembered as great patrons of Persian culture, art, literature ... mainland Persia, where they adopted the Persian culture and language in ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In his advance against the Persian king, Cyrus used Greek mercenaries ... read by beginning students of the Greek language. His Hellenica is a chief ...
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  • locations. Nabonidus surrendered to the Persian forces in 539 B.C.E. and ... Assyrian origin. However Nabonidus' Persian successor, Cyrus the Great ...
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  • In 298, the Roman Emperor Diocletian had signed a treaty with his ... quickly repaired the walls while the Persian elephant cavalry became ...
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  • The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty ... E. Yarshater, "Language of Azerbaijan, vii., Persian language ...
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  • 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 ...
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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. ...
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  • Talc (derived from the Persian via Arabic talq) is a mineral composed of magnesium silicate hydroxide. It is extremely soft, with a greasy feel ...
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  • Omar Khayyám (Persian عمر خیام; May 18, 1048 – December ... memorable not only for the beauty of its language and the concise gracefulness ...
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  • Cyrus (Old Persian Kourosh or Khorvash, modern Persian: کوروش ... with the words the Great (Vazraka in Old Persian, Bozorg in modern Persian ...
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  • In the tenth century, the Persian mathematician and astronomer Abul ... Persian mathematician Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) combined trigonometry ...
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  • linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates. Individual mother ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...
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  • zarqun, meaning vermilion, or perhaps from the Persian zargun, meaning golden-colored. These words are corrupted into "jargoon," a term applied ...
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  • Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد ... that al-Farabi's father was of Persian descent. Ibn al-Nadim, among ...
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  • given refuge. Furthermore, the Sassanid Persian kings, who were at constant ... * They allowed the transfer of the school of Edessa to the Persian ...
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  • *Old Persian Cuneiform *Sumerian *Vai *Woleai *Yi (Modern) *Yugtun }} | list8 = border=child | list9 = border=child }} ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources considering ... although the empire also administered in Persian and Uyghur. ...
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  • Under the Persian rule, a system of centralized administration with ... By about 380 B.C.E., Persian hold on the region weakened. Many small ...
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  • the flower and its name originated in the Persian Empire. The tulip actually ... parsley got their very names because of their Persian origins. ...
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  • "Hindooism") into the English language in 1816. For many years ... for worship (insisting on Sanksrit, Persian or English). He may have ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • with caraway (Carum carvi), also called Persian cumin, which produces similar ... many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • or světĭlŭ (clear, bright), Persian سفید or sefid, Sanskrit ... #:Someone once made a programming language where all the symbols were ...
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  • the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory for themselves ... Sir William Jones to translate a Persian language biography of Nader Shah ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Arabic buraq, which comes from either the Persian burah ... or the Middle Persian burak. [http://www.bartleby.com/61/99/B0399900 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * زردچوبه (zardchubeh) in Persian. * ‘Ōlena in Hawaiian * Gelbwurz (literal: Yellow Root) or Kurkuma in German. * Gurkemeje in Danish. ...
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  • as Rumi, was a mystical thirteenth century Persian Sufi poet, jurist, and theologian ... and ethnic borders. Speakers of the Persian language in Iran, Afghanistan ...
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  • The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer ... has also been known as the Khazar Sea. In Persian antiquity, as well as in ...
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  • Samarkand derives its name from the Old Persian asmara, "stone ... conquered it in 329 B.C.E. Although a Persian-speaking region, it was ...
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  • nobility. Here he was taught Latin, English, and Persian, studied mathematics and zoology, and was able to considerably widen his musical experience. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The name sitar comes from the Persian language سی‌تار sehtar; سیہ seh meaning three and تار tar means string. A similar instrument ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • approximately 30° north latitude in the Persian Gulf and, thus, has asymmetric ... Oman, Laccadive Sea, Mozambique Channel, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of poems and travelogues in Urdu language. == Personal life == ... Khan spoke fluent English, Bengali, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu languages. ...
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  • is believed to derive either from the Persian Ashk-ābād meaning "the ... Armenians, and Azeris. The Türkmen language, a member of the East Oghuz ...
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  • a Bahuvrihi compound in the Avestan language, which has been interpreted ... *Avestan zaray/Modern Persian zærd ("yellow" or "golden ...
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  • Abu Bakr Al Razi (popularly known as Rhazes), a Persian physician and philosopher who described certain physiological parameters when he went to establish ...
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  • The word pistachio is a Persian loanword, coming into English through Italian, and is a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته Peste'. ...
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  • to mastering English—adding this language to the Arabic, French, Persian ... On the occasion of some Persian believers asking him about a successor ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in Indian literature. Written in Sanskrit language and Hale Kannada script ... of Persia Khosrau II, his reception of the Persian ambassador depicted in one ...
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  • The word bazaar derives from the Persian word bāzār, the etymology of which goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char (بهاچار) meaning ...
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  • —"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... of Islamic mysticism in universal language, inviting one to live for ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ... it from Sanskrit into the middle Persian language of Pahlavi, transliterated ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ... born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 C.E. In Persian, Razi means "from the ...
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  • Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton ... 138: Tea,] The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, Max Planck ...
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  • where the tree and the fruit are known by the Persian-derived names Toot (mulberry) or Shahtoot (King's or "Superior" mulberry). Jams ...
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  • Naidu learned to speak Urdu, Telugu, English, Persian and Bengali. Her favorite poet was P.B. Shelley. She attained national fame for entering ...
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  • frontier with Al-Shariqah. In the north is the Persian Gulf. ... The emirate has oil rich fields, both onshore and in the Persian Gulf ...
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  • Klaus Koch. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. (Philidelphia: ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...
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  • was originally named Bagh-e-Badshahi (Persian: Garden of the Master Kings ... of Pakistan began there. The Bengali Language Movement started there in ...
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  • Samovar, pronounced as samāvar in Persian was originally imported from Russia. Iranian craftsmen used Persian art and Kurdish art to produce ...
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  • Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: ... . A vast majority of the populations of Persian Gulf countries (including ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the Middle Ages, Tengri received the Persian name “Khodai.” Even ... During the Middle Ages, Tengri received the Persian name “Khodai ...
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  • the Arsacids in Parthia and began the new Persian Sassanid dynasty. The Sassanids ... less suspect" to their powerful Persian neighbors. ...
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  • means "quatrains" in the Persian language. Singular: ruba'i ... Muzaffar Alam, The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics ...
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