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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 ...
Persian works. Avicenna's most important Persian work is the Danishnama (دانشنامه علائی, "Book of Knowledge". Avicenna created a new scientific vocabulary that had not previously existed in Persian. The Danishnama covers such topics as logic, metaphysics, music theory and other sciences of his time.
Persian vocabulary. Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family, and many words in modern Persian usage ultimately originate from Proto-Indo-European. The language makes extensive use of word building techniques such as affixation and compounding to derive new words from roots. Persian has also had considerable contact with other ...
According to Ferdowsi, Zahhāk was born as the son of a ruler named Merdās ( Persian: مرداس ). Because of his Arab lineage, he is sometimes called Zahhāk-e Tāzī ( Persian: ضحاکِ تازی ), meaning "Zahhāk the Tayyi ". He is handsome and clever, but has no stability of character and is easily influenced by his counselors.
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, [1] [2] is an opaque, [3] impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron (III) inclusions. Jasper breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or ...
Dozar or Sedjadeh: The term comes from Persian do, "two" and zar, a Persian measure corresponding to about 105 centimetres (41 inches). Carpets of Dozar size are approximately 130–140 cm (51–55 in) x 200–210 cm (79–83 in). Ghalitcheh (Persian: قالیچه ): Carpet of Dozar format, but woven in very fine quality.
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.
Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I ( Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh d͡ʒa.ˈhɑːn]; lit.'King of the World' ), was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658. During his reign, the Mughals reached the peak of their architectural and cultural achievements.