پارسا

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Not found in Middle Persian. A link to Middle Persian 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩 (pʾlsy /⁠Pārs⁠/, Persia) is often suggested, with reference to the Zoroastrian notion that the Iranians were the chosen nation of God.[1]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? pārsā
Dari reading? pārsā
Iranian reading? pârsâ
Tajik reading? porso

Adjective

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پارسا (pârsâ)

  1. pious; devout
  2. abstemious; temperate
  3. (of a woman) chaste

Noun

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پارسا (pârsâ)

  1. pious person, saintly person; ascetic
    • 1258, Shaykh Muṣliḥ-ud-Dīn Saʿdī of Shiraz, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 52:
      پارسائی را دیدم بر کنار دریا که زخم پلنگی داشت و بهیچ دارو به نمیشد. مدتها در آن رنجور بود و شکر خدای عزّ وجلّ علی‌الدوام گفتی.
      pārsā'ē rā dīdam bar kinār-i daryā ki zaxm-i palangē dātš u ba hēč dārū bih na-mē-šud. muddat-hā dar ān ranjūr būd u šukr-i xudāy azza wa jalla ala-d-dawām guftē.
      On the seashore I saw a hermit who had a leopard wound that would not heal with any medicine. He had been suffering in pain for a long time, but he still thanked God constantly.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. chaste woman; virtuous woman

Proper noun

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پارسا (pârsâ)

  1. a male given name, Parsa

References

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  1. ^ Soudavar, Abolala (2010) “The formation of Achaemenid imperial ideology and its impact on the Avesta”, in The World of Achaemenid Persia - History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East, London: I. B. Tauris, pages 111—138