Persian
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- noun
- /ˈpɜrʒən/
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persa
- Many Persians celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with family gatherings.
Yeah, Armenian, my mother, Assyrian, my dad, Persian, Iran, English here.
- Yeah, Armenian, my mother, Assyrian, my dad, Persian, Iran, English here.
- She's written on a groundbreaking book on the Persians and the idea of the barbarian.
- And the Iranians, we're the Persians, the biggest conquerors of their, of their epoch.
- You know, like I said, the Persians allowed a lot of local autonomy.
- Nobody said it was brought in by the French or by the Indians or by the Persians or by any other group.
- He died in an unsuccessful campaign against the Persians.
- And what happened was King Cyrus the Persian, he came through and he destroyed the Babylonians.
- But he wanted to continue the Obama strategic tension, you know, empower the Shia, the Persian, and play them off against Israel and have tension.
Examples
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Babur's army consisted of Turks, Mongols, Persians and Afghans.
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This was around the time when there was a lot of Persian guests in the northern parts of India.
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My, my uncle, all these older Persian men, they all have advice.
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There is a pressure from the Persians for a general peace.
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And they had to block the Persians later on and further down.
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And you know, according to the Greeks, those were the things that the Persians held particularly dear.
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This is the Persians speaking as the Persians addressing the world.
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At great cost to the Persians, the Spartans and their king Leonidas were killed.
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The remnants of the Persian fleet streamed back to Phalaron.
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The cultural contributions of Persians can be seen in art, poetry, and architecture.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person from Iran
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A person from Iran
A person who comes from Persia, now called Iran, or whose family came from there
Compounds
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3.4
A 1990–1991 war when Iraq invaded Kuwait and a US-led group fought to push out Iraqi troops
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5.3
A large ancient empire in southwest Asia started by Cyrus the Great and later conquered by Alexander the Great
Countries in southwest Asia with mainly Arab people that border the Persian Gulf
- Specialized
A sickness that affected many people who served in the 1991 Gulf War, causing tiredness, headaches, and memory problems
A tree from Europe and Asia that produces large edible nuts and wood used for furniture
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Persian comes from the old place name Parsa, a region in what is now Iran, so a Persian originally means a person from 'Persia' (today Iran).