Persia

See also: persia, Persía, Pérsia, and Pèrsia

English

Etymology

From Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /pārsa/).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).ʒə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝʒə/
Audio (UK) (file)
(dated) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃə/

Proper noun

Persia

(historical, archaic) The former term referring to Iran in the West.
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.

Translations

region of ancient Iran

Afrikaans: Persië
Albanian: Persië f, Persisë f
Amharic: ፋርስ (fars)
Arabic: فَارِس‎ (ar) m (fāris)
Egyptian Arabic: بلاد فارس‎ f pl (belād fāres), فارس‎ f (fāres)
Armenian: Պարսկաստան (Parskastan)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܵܪܸܣ‎ f (paris)
Azerbaijani: Fars
Belarusian: Пе́рсія f (Pjérsija)
Bengali: পারস্য (parôśśô)
Bulgarian: Пе́рсия f (Pérsija)
Burmese: ပါရှား (pahra:)
Chechen: Гӏажарийчоь (Ğažariičö)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 波斯 (zh) (Bōsī)
Czech: Persie (cs) f
Danish: Persien
Dutch: Perzië (nl) n
Egyptian:

(prs)
Esperanto: Persio
Estonian: Pärsia
Finnish: Persia (fi)
French: Perse (fr) f
Middle French: Perse f
Georgian: სპარსეთი (sṗarseti)
German: Persien (de) n
Greek: Περσία (el) f (Persía)
Hawaiian: Pelekia
Hebrew: פָּרָס‎ (he) f (parás)
Hindi: फ़ारस m (fāras), फारस (hi) m (phāras), पारस (hi) m (pāras), पारसीक (hi) m (pārsīk), फारिस (hi) m (phāris)
Hungarian: Perzsia (hu)
Icelandic: Persía f
Indonesian: Persia
Irish: an Pheirs f
Italian: Persia f
Japanese: ペルシア (ja) (Perushia), ペルシャ (ja) (Perusha)
Kazakh: Парсы (Parsy)
Khmer: ពែរ្ស (pɛɛsɑɑ)
Korean: 페르시아 (ko) (Pereusia)
Kurmanji: Faris (ku)
Kyrgyz: Персия (Persiya)
Lao: ເປີເຊຍ (pœ̄ sīa)
Latin: Persia (la) f
Latvian: Persija f
Lithuanian: Persija f
Macedonian: Персија f (Persija)
Malay: Parsi
Manchu: ᠪᠣᠰ (bos)
Maori: Pāhia
Marathi: पर्शिया m (parśiyā)
Mongolian: Перс (Pers)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Persia
Old East Slavic: Персида f (Persida)
Old English: Persa
Old Norse: Persía f, Persíaland n, Persaland n, Persiða f, Persiðaland n
Oriya: ଶାକ ଦ୍ୱୀପ (or) (śakô dwipô), ପରଶ୍ୟ (or) (pôrôśyô)
Ossetian: Перс (Pers)
Pashto: پارسه‎ f (pârsa)
Persian: پارسه‎ (fa) f (pârse), پارس‎ (fa) (pârs), فارس‎ (fa) (fârs)
Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩‎ (pʾlsy /pārs/)

Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /pārsa/)
Polish: Persja (pl) f
Portuguese: Pérsia (pt) f
Romanian: Persia (ro) f
Russian: Пе́рсия (ru) f (Pérsija)
Sanskrit: पारसीक (sa) n (pārasīka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Пѐрзија f

Roman: Pèrzija (sh) f
Slovak: Perzia f
Slovene: Perzija (sl) f
Spanish: Persia (es) f
Swedish: Persien (sv)
Tajik: Порс (Pors), Форс (Fors)
Tamil: பெர்சியா (perciyā)
Tatar: Фарсы (Farsı)
Thai: เปอร์เซีย (bpəə-siia)
Turkish: Fars (tr), Pers (tr)
Turkmen: Persiýa
Ukrainian: Пе́рсія f (Pérsija)
Urdu: فارس‎ m (fāras), پرشیا‎ m (parśiyā)
Uyghur: پارس‎ (pars), پېرسىيە‎ (përsiye)
Uzbek: Fors, Pors, Persiya
Vietnamese: Ba Tư (波斯)
Yiddish: פּערסיע‎ f (persye)
Zhuang: Bohswh

Iran — see Iran

Anagrams

Arispe, Parise, Pearis, aspire, paires, paries, praise, spirea

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Persia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpersiɑ/, [ˈpe̞rs̠iɑ]
Rhymes: -ersiɑ
Syllabification^(key): Per‧si‧a

Proper noun

Persia

(historical) 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	—
accusative	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		—	—

Possessive forms of Persia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Persiani	Persiamme
2nd person	Persiasi	Persianne
3rd person	Persiansa

Derived terms

persialainen

Related terms

persia
Iran

Anagrams

reipas, separi

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.sja/
Rhymes: -ɛrsja
Hyphenation: Pèr‧sia

Proper noun

Persia f

Persia

Related terms

Anagrams

apersi, arpesi, espira, paresi, presai, ripesa, saperi, saprei, separi, serpai, sperai, spiare, spierà

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.a/, [ˈpɛrs̠iä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.a/, [ˈpɛrsiä]

Proper noun

Persia f sg (genitive Persiae); first declension

Persia
- c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 4.3.28:
  Immō ad tē attinent et tuā refert. Nam ex Persiā sunt haec allātae mihi ā meō erō.
  Why yes, it bears reference to yourself, and it does relate to you. But it has just now been brought me from Persia, from my master.

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Persia
Genitive	Persiae
Dative	Persiae
Accusative	Persiam
Ablative	Persiā
Vocative	Persia
Locative	Persiae

Synonyms

Persis

Related terms

Persa

References

“Persia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Persia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Persia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Portuguese

Proper noun

Persia f

Obsolete spelling of Pérsia

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾsja/ [ˈpeɾ.sja]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -eɾsja
Syllabification: Per‧sia

Proper noun

Persia f

Persia

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