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It winters along sheltered, ice-free coasts of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. First formally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, it is about 70 centimetres (28 in) long and can weigh from 1.3 to 3.4 kilograms (2.9 to 7.5 lb). In breeding plumage, it has mostly black upperparts, a grey head and hindneck, white and black sides, mostly ...
The word Nowruz is a combination of the Persian words نو (now, meaning 'new') and روز (ruz, 'day'). Pronunciation varies among Persian dialects, with Eastern dialects using the pronunciation [nawˈɾoːz] (as in Dari and Classical Persian, however in Tajik, it is navrūz, written наврӯз), western dialects [nowˈɾuːz], and Tehranis ...
Ibn Sina ( Persian: ابن سینا, romanized : Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( / ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/ ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [ 4][ 5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [ 6]
Thus many words in the list below, though originally from Persian, arrived in English through the intermediary of Ottoman Turkish language. Many Persian words also came into English through Urdu during British colonialism. Persian was the language of the Mughal court before British rule in India even though locals in North India spoke Hindustani.
The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of August 2024, it has 1,010,518 articles, 1,332,530 registered users, and 91,962 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012.
Statue in Tehran Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi. Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), [2] also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), [3] was a Persian [4] [5] poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian ...
Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[ note 1] ( Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850 ), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head ...
The Persian Encyclopedia ( Persian: دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi) is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a two-volume encyclopedia published as three physical volumes. The encyclopedia was based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions ...