parasang
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin parasanga, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek παρασάγγης (parasángēs), from unattested (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Persian (indigenously attested only in Middle Iranian onwards); compare Middle Persian plsng (frasang, “frasang (4 Roman miles)”) (whence Persian فرسنگ (farsang)).
Pronunciation
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Noun
parasang (plural parasangs or parasang)
- A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres. [from 16th c.]
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- To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].
- 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 44:
- We were told that we still had to drive six or sixty parasang.
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Translations
historical Iranian unit of distance
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “frasang”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 32
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