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persian

/ˈpɝʒən/

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What does persian mean?

adjective

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Persia.
  2. Of or pertaining to the Persian people.
  3. Of or pertaining to the Persian language.
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noun

  1. A member of the ethnic group indigenous to Persis and the Iranian plateau that forms the majority of the population of modern-day Iran.
  2. Ellipsis of Persian cat.
  3. A pastry local to the Thunder Bay region in Canada often compared to either a cinnamon bun or a donut topped with pink icing.
  4. A sheep of the Blackhead Persian breed.
  5. A thin silk fabric, formerly used for linings.
  6. Any of a set of male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature.
  7. (historical) A native or inhabitant of the historical polity of Persia (for example, any of the various Persian empires).
  8. (dated) An Iranian (person from Iran).

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to Persius (Roman writer)

proper noun

  1. The Persian language, or a family of languages spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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IPA pronunciation

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The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack—even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco—all met my eyes as I glanced round me.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
Closing the door, the Persian went to a very thin partition that separated the dressing-room from a big lumber-room next to it.
Gaston LerouxThe Phantom of the OperaProject Gutenberg ebook #175
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The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
In the Persian theology regarding the struggle of the great powers of good and evil this idea was developed to its highest point.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505
Reaching the suburbs of Khoi, I am initiated into a new departure - new to myself at this time - of Persian sanctimoniousness.
Thomas StevensAround the World on a Bicycle - Volume I From San Francisco to TeheranProject Gutenberg ebook #5136