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  • to frighten the enemy or to celebrate. The Persian word is sanj or senj ( ... ), but the Shahnameh does not claim these to be Persian in origin ...
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  • Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... title Agha with the Turkic, Mongolian and Persian/Pashto polyvalent title ...
    18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
  • Geographically, the Arab world is defined as extending from the Persian ... speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ...
    32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
  • In the Persian period (538-332 B.C.E.), Byblos was the fourth of four ... and the town grew rapidly. Although a Persian colony is known to have ...
    14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
  • coast are descended from Arab and Persian Muslim traders who settled ... eastward exodus, the Hui used the Arab, Persian and Han languages. Gradually ...
    26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
  • grave of humanity. However, with the influence of Persian thought and the passing of time, the notion of "hell" crept into Jewish tradition ...
    8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
  • side from the Irtish and the Volga to the Persian Gulf, and on the other from ... called Sharaf ud-Din, author of the Persian Zafarnāma (Persian ظفرنامه ...
    24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
  • resulted in a new word, assassin, in European language The name "assassin ... that drug [hashish] in connection with the Persian Assassins--especially in ...
    15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
  • some 30,000 in each case, while the Persian troops at al-Qadisiyah numbered ... Farisi and az-Zajjaj. All of whom were of Persian descent. They were brought ...
    28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
  • society for the study of poetic language. Later he became one of the ... YAZyka—Society for the Study of Poetic Language), OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) ( ...
    20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
  • Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital ... #039;s history, invaders included the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great ...
    23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
  • on the dating of Ecclesiastes, the language and style of the text certainly ... it borrows several terms from the Persian language, and incorporates vocabulary ...
    19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
  • (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...
    44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
  • According to the nineteenth-century language scholar, Heinrich Hubschmann ... In the sixteenth century, control of Nakhichevan passed to the Persian ...
    32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
  • and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded as ... He is known as Iqbal-e-Lahori (Persian: اقبال لاهوری ...
    34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
  • Since then, for over 2700 years, the Persian Jews have lived in the territories ... returned to Judea during the Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.E ...
    16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
  • 鄂爾渾文字) to record the Old Turkic language. == Etymology == ... and "blue" in the Köktürk language, and a similar sounding ...
    21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
  • The work is of central importance in Persian culture and Persian language ... == Influence on Persian language == [[File:Firdawsi - Folio from a ...
    59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
  • deposed Raja Jit Singh. The declaration drafted in Persian, reads: :"I, Raja Jit Singh, grandson of Raja Sahib Ranjit Devji, on this occasion ...
    12 KB (1,968 words) - 19:03, 21 June 2024
  • Little mention is made of the Ammonites through the Persian and early ... with other considerations, that their language was Semitic, closely related ...
    18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023

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