Persia

See also: persia, Persía, Pérsia, and Pèrsian

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

  1. (historical, archaic) The former term referring to Iran in the West. (historical, archaic)
  2. Persia proper (Persis), the land of the ancient Persians, corresponding to modern-day Fars province in southwestern Iran.
  3. (historical, archaic) Territories corresponding to either of the two Persian Empires ruled by dynasties from Persis, specially the first of the two.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations
Iran — see Iran

See also

Anagrams

Finnish

Proper noun

Persia

  1. 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 — —

Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛrsja/

Proper noun

Persia f

  1. Persia

Anagrams

Portuguese

Proper noun

Persia f

  1. Obsolete spelling of Pérsia

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpersja/

Proper noun

Persia f

  1. Persia
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