Definition of persian

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Persian (n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a..

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Dram :: Dram (n.) A Persian daric.
Iranian :: Iranian (n.) A native of Iran; also, the Iranian or Persian language, a division of the Aryan family of languages..
Argas :: Argas (n.) A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje..
Parasang :: Parasang (n.) A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles..
Loki :: Loki (n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians..
Ahriman :: Ahriman (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light..
Lilac :: Lilac (n.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name..
Persian :: Persian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.
Archimagus :: Archimagus (n.) The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire..
Cuniform :: Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.
Shiraz :: Shiraz (n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Persian :: Persian (a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language..
Persism :: Persism (n.) A Persian idiom.
Persian :: Persian (n.) The language spoken in Persia.
Zend :: Zend (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written..
Schene :: Schene (n.) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia..
Kerana :: Kerana (n.) A kind of long trumpet, used among the Persians..
Garookuh :: Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.
Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..
Bulbul :: Bulbul (n.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera..
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