Persia
English
Etymology
From Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).ʒə/
Proper noun
Persia
- (historical, archaic) The former term referring to Iran in the West. (historical, archaic)
- Persia proper (Persis), the land of the ancient Persians, corresponding to modern-day Fars province in southwestern Iran.
- (historical, archaic) Territories corresponding to either of the two Persian Empires ruled by dynasties from Persis, specially the first of the two.
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Translations
region of ancient Iran
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Iran — see Iran
Finnish
Declension
Inflection of Persia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | — |
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛrsja/
Portuguese
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