Parsi has been used as a name for several languages of Iran and South Asians, some of them spurious: Parsi, an alternative spelling of Farsi, the Persian...
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The word Parsi is derived from the Persian language, and literally translates to Persian (پارسی, Pārsi). According to the 16th-century Parsi epic Qissa-i...
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literary language and the Parsis (adopted as a mother tongue). Gujarati is one of the twenty-two official languages and fourteen regional languages of India...
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Parsi theatre is a generic term for an influential theatre tradition, staged by Parsis, and theatre companies largely-owned by the Parsi business community...
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Look up Parsi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Parsis are a Zoroastrian community of South Asia. Parsi or Parsis may also refer to: Parsi, Iran,...
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over 70 languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family...
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Dari (redirect from Tangshewi language)
According to him, "Pārsī was the language spoken by priests, scholars, and the like; it is the language of Fars." This language refers to Middle Persian...
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rejecting the use of Farsi in foreign languages. Etymologically, the Persian term Farsi derives from its earlier form Pārsi (Pārsik in Middle Persian), which...
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Rattanbai Jinnah (category Parsi people)
extremely affluent and well-connected Petit family that belonged to the Parsi community. She was the only daughter of the businessman Sir Dinshaw Petit...
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Iranian peoples (category Articles containing Proto-Indo-European-language text)
with original Parsi roots, including the inhabitants of villages scattered across Persia who still speak their ancient Parsi language. However, the term...
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Phir Hera Pheri (category 2000s Hindi-language films)
pick up his portion of the money only to find the bungalow occupied by a Parsi gun collector. Pappu is now in trouble because he had borrowed money from...
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Zoroastrianism in India (section Parsi)
Parsi in the Persian language literally means "Persian". Persian is the official language of modern Iran, which is also known as Persia. The language...
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Labzánkí Majlis. p. 64. Ghulám Razá Azarlí. 2016. Farhange Kúcak: Pársí/Balúcí. Pársí Anjuman. Hashmi, S. Z. S. 2000. Sayad Ganj: Balochi-Balochi Dictionary...
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Azerbaijan, and "Pârsi" ("Persian" proper) to describe the dialects of Fars (Persia). They also noted that the unofficial language of the royalty itself...
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Trita Parsi (Persian: تریتا پارسی, born ?21 July 1974) is an Iranian-born Swedish writer and activist, and the co-founder and executive vice president...
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Max Minghella (category English people of Parsi descent)
and his maternal grandmother Maisie Nora (née Kotewall) was of Indian Parsi, English, Irish, Swedish and Chinese ancestry. Sir Robert Kotewall is his...
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in Surat Haug, Martin (2012). Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings and Religion of the Parsis To Which Is Also Added a Biographical Memoir of the...
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Indo-Iranian language family as Sanskrit and Rajasthani are, met up in some instances with its cognates: Zoroastrian Persian refugees known as Parsis also speak...
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Zoroastrianism (category Articles containing Avestan-language text)
subcontinent, where they were granted asylum and became the progenitors of today's Parsis. Once numbering in the millions, the world's total Zoroastrian population...
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Persians (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
of darī or parsī-i darī, can be classified linguistically as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official, religious and literary language of Sasanian...
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Navsari (category Parsi culture)
In the Persian language, "now" means new, and "Sari" refers to the region in Iran, hence the name Naoo Sari. Two families of Parsi Zoroastrian priests...
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Being Cyrus (category English-language Indian films)
is a 2005 Indian English-language dark comedy film directed by Homi Adajania. The film revolves around a dysfunctional Parsi family. The film was originally...
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Bapsi Sidhwa (category Parsi writers)
described herself as a "Punjabi-Parsi". Her first language was Gujarati, her second language was Urdu, and her third language was English. She could read...
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Pakistan's indigenous languages. The Parsi community speaks a dialect of Gujarati which has been influenced by their ancestral language of Persian. In 1932...
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Dadar Parsi Colony (officially Mancherji Joshi Parsi Colony) is an urban planned residential precinct in Mumbai. It is situated in the locality of Dadar...
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Poonawalla (category Parsi people)
Poonawalla or Poonawala is an Indian (Parsi/Dawoodi Bohra/Khoja) toponymic surname for someone from Pune (formerly Poona) in India. It may refer to: Adar...
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Tat people (Caucasus) (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
The Tat people or Transcaucasian Persians (also: Tat, Parsi, Daghli, Lohijon) are an Iranian people presently living within Azerbaijan and Russia (mainly...
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Jadi Rana (section Jadi Rana in Parsi literature)
present-day Parsi community of the Indian subcontinent. Many Parsis consider the Qissa to be a factual account, and there are several ancillary Parsi legends...
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Rohinton Mistry (category Parsi people from Mumbai)
corrupting influence of society. Rohinton Mistry was born in Bombay, India, to a Parsi family. His brother is the playwright and author Cyrus Mistry. He earned...
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Ali-Asghar Hekmat (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
renowned Iranian Scholar, Dr. Mohammad Ajam. "History of Persian or Parsi Language" — Iran Chamber Society soas.ac.uk Archived 23 September 2009 at the...
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