farsakh
English
Etymology
From Persian فرسخ (farsax).
Noun
farsakh (plural farsakhs)
- parasang
- 1846, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 353:
- The next day was to take us to Anár, over a desert of twelve farsakhs, and it was here we might expect the robbers.
- 1888, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 86:
- The old authors considered Demâvend the highest mountain in the world, and estimated its height at four to five farsaks
- 1911, A.B. Wiliams Jackson, From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam, page 178:
- From Rai to Damghan, 80 farsakhs; from Damghan to Nishapur, 80; total from Rai to Nishapur, 160 farsakhs.
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic فَرْسَخ (farsaḵ), from Northwestern Middle Iranian *frasax (“parasang”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfarsax/
- Rhymes: -sax, -ax, -x
- Hyphenation: far‧sakh
Noun
farsakh (first-person possessive farsakhku, second-person possessive farsakhmu, third-person possessive farsakhnya)
- (archaic) parasang, farsang
References
- Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, OCLC 29420936
Further reading
- “farsakh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.