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Webster 1913 Edition
Parasang
Par′a-sang
,Noun.
[L.
parasanga
, Gr. [GREEK], from Old Persian; cf. Per. farsang
.] A Persian measure of length, which, according to
Herodotus
and Xenophon
, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles. Webster 1828 Edition
Parasang
PAR'ASANG
,Noun.
Definition 2024
parasang
parasang
English
Noun
parasang (plural parasangs)
- A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres. [from 16th c.]
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.66:
- To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].
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2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 44:
- We were told that we still had to drive six or sixty parasang.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.66:
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “frasang”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 32