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) 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.
- (historical, archaic) The former term referring to Iran in the West.
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Translations
region of ancient Iran
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Iran — see Iran
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Finnish
Proper noun
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 | — | — | |
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛrsja/
Proper noun
Persia f
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Persia f
- Obsolete spelling of Pérsian
Spanish
Proper noun
Persia f
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