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Persian may
refer to:
People and
things from Iran,
historically called Persia in the
English language Persian people, the
majority ethnic group in Iran...
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native speakers of the
Persian language, as well as of the
languages closely related to
Persian. The
ancient Persians were
originally an
ancient Iranian...
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Persian (/ˈpɜːrʒən, -ʃən/), also
known by its
endonym Farsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] (listen)), is a
Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian...
- The
Persian Gulf (
Persian: خلیج فارس, romanized: xalij-e fârs, lit. 'Gulf of Fars', pronounced [xæliːdʒe fɒːɾs]),
sometimes called the
Arabian Gulf (Arabic:...
- The
Persian cat (
Persian: گربه پارسی, romanized: Gorbe'-ye Pârsi) is a long-haired
breed of cat
characterized by its
round face and
short muzzle. It is...
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Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old
Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, romanized: Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom'), also
called the
First Persian Empire, was an
ancient Iranian...
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Persian is a
major character from the 1910
Gaston Leroux novel The
Phantom of the Opera. In the book he is the one who
tells most of the background...
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Persian alphabet (
Persian: الفبای فارسی, romanized: Alefbā-ye Fārsi) is a
writing system used for the
Persian language spoken in Iran (Western Persian)...
- Old
Persian is one of the two
directly attested Old
Iranian languages (the
other being Avestan) and is the
ancestor of
Middle Persian (the
language of...
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Persianization (/ˌpɜːrʒəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃən/) or
Persification (/ˌpɜːrsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/;
Persian: پارسیسازی), is a
sociological process of
cultural change in which...
