Persia
English
Etymology
From Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Persia
- (historical, archaic) The former term referring to Iran in the West. (historical, archaic)
- Persia proper (Persis), the land of the ancient Persians, corresponding to modern-day Fars province in southwestern Iran.
- (historical, archaic) Territories corresponding to either of the two Persian Empires ruled by dynasties from Persis, specially the first of the two.
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Translations
region of ancient Iran
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Iran — see Iran
See also
Anagrams
Finnish
Proper noun
Persia
Declension
Inflection of Persia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Persia | — | ||
genitive | Persian | — | ||
partitive | Persiaa | — | ||
illative | Persiaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Persia | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Persia | — | |
gen. | Persian | |||
genitive | Persian | — | ||
partitive | Persiaa | — | ||
inessive | Persiassa | — | ||
elative | Persiasta | — | ||
illative | Persiaan | — | ||
adessive | Persialla | — | ||
ablative | Persialta | — | ||
allative | Persialle | — | ||
essive | Persiana | — | ||
translative | Persiaksi | — | ||
abessive | Persiatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Persia f
Related terms
Anagrams
Portuguese
Proper noun
Persia f
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Persia f
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Old Persian
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- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
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- English words suffixed with -ia
- en:Countries in Asia
- en:Persia
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- fi:Countries in Asia
- fi:Persia
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- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Countries in Asia
- it:Persia
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Portuguese feminine nouns
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- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Countries in Asia
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