Search results for "Persian language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • to travel to India to learn the wisdom of the Persian magi and the Indian Brahmins. He also went to Egypt to study the ways of the Gymnoi ("Naked ...
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  • quot;) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic ... as a fundamental creative act using language.Dylan Thomas, Quite Early ...
    69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
  • and practice in the Arabic, Turkish and Persian-speaking worlds. In recent ... the polysemous ambiguity of the Arabic language to great effect. The characteristic ...
    13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
  • old. Travelers and merchants from the Persian Gulf and Western India have ... English is the official, primary language of commerce, administration ...
    19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
  • the Qur'an and Islamic texts in Arabic and Persian, but little else. Several national movements have emerged from this sector of the Muslim community ...
    25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
  • with distinctive features, and a language derived in part from Arabic ... The town of Kidichi features the hammam (Persian baths), built by ...
    19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
  • sealions-usat_x.htm Sea lions called to duty in Persian Gulf]. USA Today February 16, 2003. Retrieved July 3, 2008. * Lento, G.M., R.E. Hickson ...
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  • nerge (traditional hunts), as reported by Persian historian Juvayni (1226 ... * The language Chagatai, widely spoken among a group of Turks, is ...
    30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
  • been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom ... hypothetical reconstruction of the spoken language, have argued that it would ...
    27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
  • three years as courtiers, learning the language, literature, and customs ... has inadvertently placed the historical Persian King Darius I at an earlier ...
    20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
  • cultures of Asia Minor such as the ancient Persian Empire, were more often ... From there it worked its way to the Latin language, where it was called Draconis ...
    20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
  • seems to underestimate the importance of Persian intervention. However, Thucydides ... as the Athenian hero of the Second Persian War), Pericles, Brasidas ...
    24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
  • domain westward, Trisong Detsen sacked a Persian religious establishment ... and also a stone lion showing traces of Persian influence. ...
    39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
  • manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language; the oldest extant complete ... ha-homa" ("speak not the Judean language in the ears of [or: which ...
    32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
  • it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms ... of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (Gordon ...
    40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
  • The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, can be divided ... The entire area was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire during ...
    58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
  • botany. He possessed a natural gift for language, teaching himself Latin. ... such as difficulty learning the language or danger to life. Finally ...
    25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
  • Egyptian eschatology. Likewise, the early Persian and Hebrew conception of ... Zarathustra, the original name from old Persian), the seventh century B ...
    39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
  • Cyrus II (the Great), the founder and ruler of the Persian Empire, and inscribed in Babylonian (Akkadian) cuneiform on a clay cylinder. It was discovered ...
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  • Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... were written in Classical Chinese, the language spoken during the Spring ...
    35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023

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