Persia

Persia

See also: persia, Persía, Pérsia, and Pèrsia

English

Etymology

From Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /pārsa/).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).ʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝʒə/

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• (dated) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃə/

Proper noun

Persia

1. (historical, archaic) The former term referring to Iran in the West.
2. Persia proper (Persis), the land of the ancient Persians, corresponding to modern-day Fars province in southwestern Iran.
3. (historical, archaic) Territories corresponding to either of the two Persian Empires ruled by dynasties from Persis, specially the first of the two.

Synonyms

• Persis

Derived terms

• Persian

Related terms

• peach

Translations

region of ancient Iran

Afrikaans: Persië Albanian: Persië f, Persisë f Amharic: ፋርስ (fars) Arabic: فَارِس‎ (ar) m (fāris) Egyptian Arabic: بلاد فارس‎ f pl (belād fāres), فارس‎ f (fāres) Armenian: Պարսկաստան (Parskastan) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܵܪܸܣ‎ f (paris) Azerbaijani: Fars Belarusian: Пе́рсія f (Pjérsija) Bengali: পারস্য (parôśśô) Bulgarian: Пе́рсия f (Pérsija) Burmese: ပါရှား (pahra:) Chechen: Гӏажарийчоь (Ğažariičö) Chinese: Mandarin: 波斯 (zh) (Bōsī) Czech: Persie (cs) f Danish: Persien Dutch: Perzië (nl) n Egyptian: (prs) Esperanto: Persio Estonian: Pärsia Finnish: Persia (fi) French: Perse (fr) f Middle French: Perse f Georgian: სპარსეთი (sṗarseti) German: Persien (de) n Greek: Περσία (el) f (Persía) Hawaiian: Pelekia Hebrew: פָּרָס‎ (he) f (parás) Hindi: फ़ारस m (fāras), फारस (hi) m (phāras), पारस (hi) m (pāras), पारसीक (hi) m (pārsīk), फारिस (hi) m (phāris) Hungarian: Perzsia (hu) Icelandic: Persía f Indonesian: Persia Irish: an Pheirs f Italian: Persia f Japanese: ペルシア (ja) (Perushia), ペルシャ (ja) (Perusha) Kazakh: Парсы (Parsy) Khmer: ពែរ្ស (pɛɛsɑɑ) Korean: 페르시아 (ko) (Pereusia) Kurmanji: Faris (ku) Kyrgyz: Персия (Persiya) Lao: ເປີເຊຍ (pœ̄ sīa) Latin: Persia (la) f Latvian: Persija f Lithuanian: Persija f Macedonian: Персија f (Persija) Malay: Parsi Manchu: ᠪᠣᠰ (bos) Maori: Pāhia Marathi: पर्शिया m (parśiyā) Mongolian: Перс (Pers) Norwegian: Bokmål: Persia Old East Slavic: Персида f (Persida) Old English: Persa Old Norse: Persía f, Persíaland n, Persaland n, Persiða f, Persiðaland n Oriya: ଶାକ ଦ୍ୱୀପ (or) (śakô dwipô), ପରଶ୍ୟ (or) (pôrôśyô) Ossetian: Перс (Pers) Pashto: پارسه‎ f (pârsa) Persian: پارسه‎ (fa) f (pârse), پارس‎ (fa) (pârs), فارس‎ (fa) (fârs) Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩‎ (pʾlsy /pārs/) Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /pārsa/) Polish: Persja (pl) f Portuguese: Pérsia (pt) f Romanian: Persia (ro) f Russian: Пе́рсия (ru) f (Pérsija) Sanskrit: पारसीक (sa) n (pārasīka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Пѐрзија f Roman: Pèrzija (sh) f Slovak: Perzia f Slovene: Perzija (sl) f Spanish: Persia (es) f Swedish: Persien (sv) Tajik: Порс (Pors), Форс (Fors) Tamil: பெர்சியா (perciyā) Tatar: Фарсы (Farsı) Thai: เปอร์เซีย (bpəə-siia) Turkish: Fars (tr), Pers (tr) Turkmen: Persiýa Ukrainian: Пе́рсія f (Pérsija) Urdu: فارس‎ m (fāras), پرشیا‎ m (parśiyā) Uyghur: پارس‎ (pars), پېرسىيە‎ (përsiye) Uzbek: Fors, Pors, Persiya Vietnamese: Ba Tư (波斯) Yiddish: פּערסיע‎ f (persye) Zhuang: Bohswh

Iran — see Iran

See also

• Wikipedia article on Persis
• Wikipedia article on Iran

Anagrams

• Arispe, Parise, Pearis, aspire, paires, paries, praise, spirea

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Persia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpersiɑ/, [ˈpe̞rs̠iɑ]
• Rhymes: -ersiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Per‧si‧a

Proper noun

Persia

1. (historical) Persia

Declension

Inflection of Persia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Persiatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Persia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Persiani	Persiamme
2nd person	Persiasi	Persianne
3rd person	Persiansa

Derived terms

• persialainen

Related terms

• persia
• Iran

Anagrams

• reipas, separi

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.sja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrsja
• Hyphenation: Pèr‧sia

Proper noun

Persia f

1. Persia

Related terms

• persiano
• persico

Anagrams

• apersi, arpesi, espira, paresi, presai, ripesa, saperi, saprei, separi, serpai, sperai, spiare, spierà

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.a/, [ˈpɛrs̠iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.a/, [ˈpɛrsiä]

Proper noun

Persia f sg (genitive Persiae); first declension

1. Persia
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 4.3.28:

     Immō ad tē attinent et tuā refert. Nam ex Persiā sunt haec allātae mihi ā meō erō.

     Why yes, it bears reference to yourself, and it does relate to you. But it has just now been brought me from Persia, from my master.

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Persia
Genitive	Persiae
Dative	Persiae
Accusative	Persiam
Ablative	Persiā
Vocative	Persia
Locative	Persiae

Synonyms

• Persis

Related terms

• Persa

References

• “Persia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Persia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Persia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Persia f

1. Obsolete spelling of Pérsia

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾsja/ [ˈpeɾ.sja]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -eɾsja
• Syllabification: Per‧sia

Proper noun

Persia f

1. Persia