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Zend-avesta :: Zend-Avesta (n.) The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date..

Mithras :: Mithras (n.) The sun god of the Persians.

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..

Schene :: Schene (n.) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia..

Cuniform :: Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

Persic :: Persic (n.) The Persian language.

Hindustani :: Hindustani (n.) The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

Parsee :: Parsee (n.) One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber..

Persism :: Persism (n.) A Persian idiom.

Ormuzd :: Ormuzd (n.) The good principle, or being, of the ancient Persian religion. See Ahriman..

Sanskrit :: Sanskrit (n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda..

Ahriman :: Ahriman (n.) The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light..

Aryan :: Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic..

Kurd :: Kurd (n.) A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies.

Dervis :: Dervis (n.) A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life..

Iranian :: Iranian (n.) A native of Iran; also, the Iranian or Persian language, a division of the Aryan family of languages..

Loki :: Loki (n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians..

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..

Persian :: Persian (a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language..

Garookuh :: Garookuh (n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

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