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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 ...
The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County in the US state of Washington, established in early 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Plutonium manufactured at the HEW was used in the atomic bomb detonated in the Trinity test on 16 July 1945, and the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing 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.
Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 16 April 2018. Persian cuisine is characterized by the use of lime and saffron, the blend of meats with fruits and nuts, a unique way of cooking rice, and Iranian hospitality. Food is subtly spiced, delicate in flavour and appearance, and not typically hot or spicy.
Dari is a name given to the New Persian language since the 10th century, widely used in Arabic (compare Al-Estakhri, Al-Muqaddasi and Ibn Hawqal) and Persian texts. [25] Since 1964, it has been the official name in Afghanistan for the Persian spoken there. In Afghanistan, Dari refers to a modern dialect form of Persian that is the standard ...
Shah (/ ʃ ɑː /; Persian: شاه, Šāh, lit. ' king ') is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Indian and Iranian monarchies. It was also used by a variety of Persianate societies, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of Bukhara, the Emirate of Bukhara, the Mughal Empire, the Bengal Sultanate, historical Afghan dynasties, and among Gurkhas.
A shamshir ( Persian: شمشیر) is a type of Persian/Iranian sword with a radical curve. The name is derived from the Persian word shamshīr, which is made of two words sham (fang) and shir (lion)". The curved " scimitar " sword family includes the shamshir, kilij, talwar, pulwar, and nimcha . A shamshir shekargar ( Persian: شمشیر ...
Etymology. The New Persian word فروهر is read as foruhar or faravahar (pronounced as furōhar or furūhar in Classical Persian).The Middle Persian forms were frawahr (Book Pahlavi: plwʾhl, Manichaean: prwhr), frōhar (recorded in Pazend as 𐬟𐬭𐬋𐬵𐬀𐬭; it is a later form of the previous form), and fraward (Book Pahlavi: plwlt', Manichaean: frwrd), which was directly from Old ...