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Parsi

Parsi

See also: parsi

English

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Noun

Parsi ‎(plural Parsis)

  1. A member of the larger of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.

Adjective

Parsi ‎(not comparable)

  1. Of, or pertaining to, the Zoroastrian community of the Indian subcontinent.

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References

  1. ↑ Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (London: Routledge, 1979), page 157
  2. ↑ Hinnells, John & Williams, Alan (2007). Parsis in India and the Diaspora. London: Routledge.
  3. ↑ Williams, Alan (2009). The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Leiden: Brill.

parsi

parsi

See also: Parsi

Finnish

Parsi; sense "stall"

Noun

parsi

  1. beam (long, usually round piece of timber for hanging goods for storage)
  2. stall (space for individual animal in a stable in which the animals are tied into a beam)

Declension

Inflection of parsi (Kotus type 28/kynsi, rt-rr gradation)
nominative parsi parret
genitive parren parsien
partitive partta parsia
illative parteen parsiin
singular plural
nominative parsi parret
accusative nom. parsi parret
gen. parren
genitive parren parsien
parttenrare
partitive partta parsia
inessive parressa parsissa
elative parresta parsista
illative parteen parsiin
adessive parrella parsilla
ablative parrelta parsilta
allative parrelle parsille
essive partena parsina
translative parreksi parsiksi
instructive — parsin
abessive parretta parsitta
comitative — parsineen

Verb

parsi

  1. Third-person singular indicative past form of parsia.
  2. Indicative present connegative form of parsia.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present form of parsia.
  4. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of parsia.

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Italian

Verb

parsi

  1. plural of parso
  2. first-person singular past historic of parere

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Latin

Participle

parsī

  1. nominative masculine plural of parsus
  2. genitive masculine singular of parsus
  3. genitive neuter singular of parsus
  4. vocative masculine plural of parsus

Etymology

Borrowing from Gujarati પારસિ ‎(pār(a)si), "as the Gujaratis, from long tradition, called anyone from Iran",[1] from Sanskrit पारसि ‎(pār(a)si), pl. पारसिक ‎(pār(a)sika).[2][3] The Indian term is attested many centuries prior to the arrival of the Parsis on the Indian subcontinent, and appears both for Iranians generally, as well as in the specific Iranian sense of Middle Persian parsi(k) ("of, or pertaining to, Persia proper") to refer to Sassanian kings, e.g. in the 4th-century Mahabharata. The Indian term is thus conventionally assumed to be ultimately a loanword from Middle Persian (or general Middle Iranian) parsi(k). In colonial times the term was also applied to the Portuguese, and by extension to Europeans in general.

Older texts have pārasā́rya "Perso-Iranian", etc. Other Iranian ethnonyms found in the Mahabharata include Sanskrit pahlava, pahnava "Parthian(s)", sāka "(eastern) Scythian(s)", bāhlika "Bactrian(s)".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑrsiː/

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