The Parsis (/ˈpɑːrsiː/) or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians...

Parsi has been used as a name for several languages of South Asia and Iran, some of them spurious: Parsi, an alternative spelling of Farsi, the Persian...

Gujarati Language. Gajendragadkar, S.N. (1972), Parsi Gujarati, Bombay: University of Bombay. Masica, Colin (1991), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge:...

Parsi theatre is a generic term for an influential theatre tradition, staged by Parsis, and theatre companies largely-owned by the Parsi business community...

Trita Parsi (Persian: تریتا پارسی, born 21 July 1974) is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft...

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,...

PUR-shən), also known by its endonym Farsi or Parsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian...

Cyrus is a 2005 Indian English-language thriller film directed by Homi Adajania. The film revolves around a dysfunctional Parsi family. The film was originally...

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...

Dadar Parsi Colony (officially Mancherji Joshi Parsi Colony) is an upper class Parsi colony in midtown South Mumbai. It is situated in the locality of...

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...

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...

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...

Parsi in the Persian language literally means "Persian". Persian is the official language of modern Iran, which is also known as Persia. The language...

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...

Azerbaijan, and "Pârsi" ("Persian" proper) to describe the dialects of Fars (Persia). They also noted that the unofficial language of the royalty itself...

led various missionary campaigns in India against the Parsi community, disparaging the Parsis for their "dualism" and "polytheism" and as having unnecessary...

extremely affluent and well-connected Petit family that belonged to the Parsi community. She was the only daughter of the businessman Sir Dinshaw Petit...

Pakistan's indigenous languages. The Parsi community speaks a dialect of Gujarati which has been influenced by their ancestral language of Persian. In 1932...

Chandan. The film will be streamed on Netflix in 2024. Adajania was born in a Parsi family. His father, Aspy Adajania, was an Indian Army officer and a pioneer...

of darī or parsī-i darī, can be classified linguistically as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official, religious and literary language of Sasanian...

movement. Bhikaiji Cama was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in a large, affluent Parsi Zoroastrian family. Her parents, Sorabji Framji Patel and Jaijibai Sorabji...

linguistically closer to the Zoroastrians of Iran. Unlike the Parsis, they speak a Dari dialect, the language spoken by the Iranian Zoroastrians in Yazd and Kerman...

Distributors Release dates 22 May 1984 (1984-05-22) (Cannes) 19 July 1985 (1985-07-19) Running time 87 minutes Country United Kingdom Languages English French...

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...

اصفهانی, گویش اصفهانی Pronunciation Pārsi-e Esfāhāni, Pārsi-e Esfehuni Native to Iran Region Isfahan Province Language family Indo-European Indo-Iranic Iranic...

Labzánkí Majlis. p. 64. Ghulám Razá Azarlí. 2016. Farhange Kúcak: Pársí/Balúcí. Pársí Anjuman. Hashmi, S. Z. S. 2000. Sayad Ganj: Balochi-Balochi Dictionary...

renovation. It was a major concern for the Parsi community for it holds great value in creating the community of Parsis in India. Udvada is also the religious...

(Urdu: بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United...

are culturally, linguistically, ethnically and socially distinct from the Parsis, who – although also Zoroastrians – immigrated to the Indian subcontinent...