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Ibn Sina ( Arabic: اِبْن سِینَا, 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]
Persian Wikipedia ( Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized : Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of July 2024, it has 1,007,180 articles, 1,324,362 registered users, and 91,262 files, and it is the 19th largest edition of Wikipedia ...
Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī played a significant role in the development of algebra, arithmetic and Hindu–Arabic numerals. He has been described as the father or founder of algebra. Another Persian mathematician, Omar Khayyam, is credited with identifying the foundations of Analytic geometry.
Statue in Tehran Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi. Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), was a Persian 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-speaking countries.
Native word formation. Persian makes extensive use of word building and combining affixes, stems, nouns, and adjectives. Persian frequently uses derivational agglutination to form new words from nouns, adjectives, and verbal stems. New words are extensively formed by compounding – two existing words combining into a new one. Influences
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی ), known by his pen name Hafez ( حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, [1] was a Persian lyric poet [2] [3] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of ...
Persian: مرد; mard + خوردن; khordan ); [a] [4] [5] [6] i.e., man-eater. The ultimate source of manticore was Ctesias, Greek physician of the Persian court during the Achaemenid dynasty, and is based on the testimonies of his Persian-speaking informants who had travelled to India.
Definitions The word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Many other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that in English are denoted as "love"; one example is the plurality of Greek concepts for "love" (agape, eros, philia, storge). Cultural differences in conceptualizing love make it difficult to establish a ...