persian

«persian» in Mova's school dictionary: Persian describes Persia, the old name for Iran, and its… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (Persian); noun (a Persian, Persians; Persian — the language, uncountable; a Persian cat)

meaning for a pupil

1) Persian describes Persia, the old name for Iran, and its people, history and culture. tree →

2) Persian, also called Farsi, is the main language of Iran, also spoken in Afghanistan (Dari) and Tajikistan (Tajik). tree →

3) A Persian is a person from Persia or Iran. tree →

4) A Persian, or Persian cat, is a cat breed with long fluffy fur and a flat face. tree →

5) A Persian carpet or rug is a hand-woven carpet with rich patterns. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great and Darius was one of the largest in the ancient world; Persians fought the Greeks at Marathon and Thermopylae. Persian poets like Rumi and Hafez are still loved. The Persian Gulf is the sea between Iran and Arabia. Words like «paradise», «pyjamas» and «chess» have Persian roots. Phrases: «the Persian Empire», «Persian cat», «Persian carpet», «the Persian Gulf».

examples

• Cyrus the Great ruled the Persian Empire. tree →
• The Greeks fought the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. tree →
• My neighbour speaks Persian at home. tree →
• Our Persian cat has long white fur that needs brushing every day. tree →
• The living room has a beautiful Persian rug. tree →
• Persian New Year, Nowruz, starts on the first day of spring. tree →
• The word «paradise» comes from an old Persian word for a garden. tree →
• Overwhelmed with grief, he sought consolation from the beautiful Persian. tree →

note

Always a capital P. Persian (the language) is uncountable; Persians (people) is countable. Persian is not Arabic: they are different languages, though Persian uses a form of the Arabic alphabet. Iran was called Persia in English until the twentieth century.

In the corpora

• The ending «stan» comes from Persian and means «land of» or «place of».
• Persian was a language of poetry and government far beyond Persia, used at the courts of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.
• About 2,500 years ago the Persian king Cyrus the Great took Babylon and built the largest empire the world had yet seen.
• The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its time, not the monster army shown in the film 300.
• Together they faced the mighty Persian Empire at Marathon and Thermopylae.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «persian» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.