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/, X-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

• Afrikaans: Persië (af)
• Arabic: فارس (ar) (fāris) m

  Egyptian Arabic: بلاد فارس (belad fares) f pl, فارس (fares) f

• Armenian: Պարսկաստան (hy) (Parskastan) 
• Belarusian: Персія (be) (Pérsija) f 
• Bengali: পারস্য (bn) (parôsyô)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波斯 (cmn) (Bōsī)

• Czech: Persie (cs) f
• Danish: Persien (da)
• Esperanto: Persio (eo)
• Estonian: Pärsia (et)
• Finnish: Persia (fi)
• French: Perse (fr) f

  Middle French: Perse f

• Georgian: სპარსეთი (ka) (sparseti) 
• German: Persien (de) n
• Greek: Περσία (el) (Persía) f 
• 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)
• Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: Persia (la) f
• Latvian: Persija (lv) f
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: پارس (fa) (Pârs), ایران (fa) (Irân)

  Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩 (Pārs)

  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
• Swedish: Persien (sv)
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• 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/, X-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