Persia

See also persia, and Persía

English

Etymology

From Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persis), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɜː(ɹ).ʒə/, SAMPA: /"p3:(r).Z@/

Proper noun

Persia

1. (academic usage) a region in southwestern Iran, in particular Pars/Fars province
2. (archaic, classical usage) Territories corresponding to either of the two empires ruled by dynasts from Pars/Fars, specially the first of the two

Derived terms

• Persian

Related terms

• peach

Translations

Old name of Iran

Arabic: فارس (ar) (fāris) m. Armenian: Պարսկաստան (hy) (Parskastan) Belarusian: Персія (be) (Pérsija) f. Bengali: পারস্য (bn) (parôsyô) Chinese: Mandarin: 波斯 (zh) (Bōsī) Danish: Persien (da) Esperanto: Persio (eo) Estonian: Pärsia (et) Finnish: Persia (fi) French: Perse (fr) f. Georgian: სპარსეთი (ka) (sparseti) German: Persien (de) n. Hebrew: פרס (he) (páras) f. Hindi: फ़ारस (hi) (fāras) m., परसिया (hi) (parsiyā) m. Icelandic: Persía (is) f. Italian: Persia (it) f.

Japanese: ペルシア (ja) (Perushia), ペルシャ (ja) (Perusha) Korean: 페르시아 (ko) (Pereusia) Latin: Persia (la) f. Latvian: Persija (lv) f. Persian: پارس (fa) (Pârs) Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa) Polish: Persja (pl) f. Portuguese: Pérsia (pt) f. Russian: Персия (ru) (Pérsija) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Пѐрзија (sh) f. Roman: Pèrzija (sh) f. Slovak: Perzia (sk) f. Spanish: Persia (es) f. Ukrainian: Персія (uk) (Pérsija) f. Urdu: فارس (ur) (fāras) m., پرشیا (ur) (parśiyā) m. Vietnamese: Ba Tư (vi) (波斯 (vi))

Iran — see Iran

See also

• Iran
• Wikipedia article on Iran

Anagrams

• aspire
• paries
• praise
• spirea

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Finnish

Proper noun

Persia

1. Persia

Declension

Declension of Persia (type kulkija) singular plural nominative Persia – genitive Persian – partitive Persiaa – accusative Persia Persian – inessive Persiassa – elative Persiasta – illative Persiaan – adessive Persialla – ablative Persialta – allative Persialle – essive Persiana – translative Persiaksi – instructive – – abessive Persiatta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

Anagrams

• reipas

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɛrsja/, SAMPA: /"pErsja/

Proper noun

Persia f.

1. Persia

Related terms

• persiano
• persico

Anagrams

• apersi, arpesi, espira, paresi, presai, ripesa, saperi, saprei, separi, sperai, spiare, spierà

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Spanish

Proper noun

Persia f.

1. Persia