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  • Zirconium (Arabic zarkûn, from Persian zargûn زرگون, meaning "gold like") was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth ...
    16 KB (2,114 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
  • The name Baku is derived from the old Persian Bagavan, which translates ... from Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and ...
    25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
  • probably hark back to the origins of language and the subcontinent's ... va Demneh dated 1429, from Herat, a [[Persian language|Persian]] translation ...
    32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
  • Bahá'u'lláh (Persian بهاء الله : meaning "Glory ... The movement quickly spread across the Persian Empire and received ...
    32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
  • The language of the Upanishads is Sanskrit, the oldest among them ... and translate them from Sanskrit into Persian, a task that was completed ...
    28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
  • work on a biography. He learned Arabic and Persian. During the First War of ... Muir tried but failed to restore Persian as an official medium of ...
    26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
  • ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ...
    39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
  • faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... was further strengthened by various Persian immigrant settlers. The ...
    24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
  • Kurdish: Agirî, Greek: Ἀραράτ, Persian: آرارات‎, Georgian: ... to appear in the world after the Deluge. A Persian legend refers to the Ararat ...
    13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
  • Like the other Arab emirates on the Persian Gulf—Kuwait, Bahrain ... when the British sought out Qatar and the Persian Gulf as an intermediary ...
    34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
  • century c.e., but they were expelled by a Persian army that remained in power ... Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly ...
    19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
  • of relgion, and the philosophy of language as well as works on aesthetics ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...
    14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
  • Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... | language = English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese ...
    14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
  • , the Armenian Shabat (Շաբաթ), the Persian shambe, Spanish and Portuguese Sábado, the Greek Savato, the Russian "subbota" (суббота ...
    24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
  • centers of learning to study the Greek language and bring back the masterpieces ... his converts because the Greek, Persian, and Syriac scripts then ...
    39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
  • Khan and his brother were freed by the new Persian ruler. The Ghilzai were ... Ahmad Shah wrote a collection of odes in his native Pashto language ...
    21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
  • Judah, as the Lord’s chosen leader. The language here is not as finely wrought ... tradition of his prophetic forebears in language, idiom, and point of view ...
    17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
  • in 324, Alexander had him marry the Persian princess Artakama. Ptolemy ... the king. Greek, not Egyptian, was the official language. ...
    22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
  • The name "rose" originates from Persian vrda, via Greek ... in Persia (the word rose itself is from Persian), then spread through Arabia ...
    22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
  • The word caviar is ultimately derived from Persian khavyar, from khaya meaning "egg." The word first appeared in English print in 1591 ...
    16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023

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