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Persia

🔄 Synonyms of "Persia"

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Word	Definition
irannoun	A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
persian empirenoun	The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty 550–330 B.C.E.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Persia"

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Word	Definition
irannoun	A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
persian empirenoun	The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty 550–330 B.C.E.
iraqnoun	A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.
persiannoun	(dated, countable) An Iranian.
farsnoun	A province of Iran.
knightnoun	(modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
farrisnoun	A surname.
faresnoun	The name of two separate resort islands of Baa and Laamu, Maldives.
faris	an Arabic and Croatian masculine given name translating to "knight," "horseman," or "cavalier" (see furusiyya).
medonoun	—
parsnoun	A province and historical region in southwestern Iran, homeland of the Persians; known to the ancient Greeks as Περσίς (Persís) or Περσική (Persikḗ), to the Romans as Persis or Persia, and to the Arabs as فَارِس (fāris).
parsanoun	A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.
parthianoun	(historical) A former empire in Central Asia and West Asia, ruled by dynasts from Parthia; the Parthian Empire; the Arsacid Empire.
ariananoun	A female given name from Ancient Greek.
persian archnoun	(architecture) A kind of four-centred arch found in Islamic architecture.
western asianoun	Synonym of West Asia.
parthyaeanoun	(historical, Hellenistic period) the region Parthia
opers.noun	Abbreviation of Old Persian. [The ancestor language of Middle Persian, and via it of New Persian language. Attested in Old Persian cuneiform, in the period 525 B.C.E. – 300 B.C.E.]
parthian empirenoun	(historical) An ancient empire of West Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.
old persiannoun	The ancestor language of Middle Persian, and via it of New Persian language. Attested in Old Persian cuneiform, in the period 525 B.C.E. – 300 B.C.E.