(a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.
(n.) The language spoken in Persia.
(n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.
(n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(2) They were hoping to escape attacks from yet another invading army; this time the forces of Khosrau II, the last great Persian king before the Muslims conquered Iran.
(3) During the Persian Gulf war, the entire Israeli population was under the threat of chemical missiles.
(4) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.
(5) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
(6) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(7) The 'Desert Storm Operation' (Persian Gulf, January-February 1991) as it affected the elderly and disabled in Israel is described.
(8) He said Turkey was at pains to maintain a friendly relationship with its Persian neighbour.
(9) An analysis of ages and ranks of hospital-based physicians in one area of the Persian Gulf War was used for a comparison with similar data from the Vietnam War.
(10) Before this, the 66-year-old served as a senior assistant to Obama administration defense secretary Leon Panetta and completed numerous postings in the Persian Gulf war and the Iraq war.
(11) Ali Motahari, an influential MP, said after Trump’s win that his presidency was to Iran’s advantage because Democrats “would chop your head with cotton”, a Persian idiom which means killing someone with kindness, and reflecting a view that the Islamic Republic has historically coped better with the Republicans.
(12) An analogy is made between the Persian Gulf War and its effective, high tech weaponry and future vector control program planning.
(13) These results cannot be explained only by the socioeconomic differences between the five groups, as the North Africans and Persians both belong to the lower urban socioeconomic class and the Arabs to the low rural socioeconomic class, with the Europeans belonging to the middle urban class.
(14) BBC Persian TV, due to launch next week, will broadcast in Farsi at peak time and be available free to the millions of Iranians who have a satellite dish.
(15) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(16) A Mycoplasma sp was isolated from an abscess of the right cranial lung lobe in a 6-year-old Persian cat.
(17) Two Persian cats kept in common, 3 months and 2 years old, presented a heavy infestation with Cheyletiella mites.
(18) During the Persian Gulf war the unified civilian and military command--the supreme hospitalization authority--implemented a national hospital and emergency medical services preparedness system designed to treat the victims of chemical warfare attacks.
(19) Persian Jews appear to have a unique variant of PDS.
(20) The Rosenberg Self-esteem scale was translated into Persian and 12 Iranian bilingual judges confirmed the soundness of translation.
Satrap
Definition:
(n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain continues, in effect, to turn a blind eye to Saudi’s human rights abuses, its appalling record of judicial executions, and its repression and jailing of human rights campaigners in its Bahrain satrap.
(2) With Akhmad gone, Putin had a vacancy for a Chechen satrap, and Ramzan was perfect for the role.
(3) Martin Bormann (1900-45): Hitler's party deputy and private secretary was one of the most powerful and sinister Nazi satraps, tried and condemned to death in his absence at Nuremberg.
(4) Even Britain, Washington's most loyal satrap, has let it be known that it will not be left "holding the baby" in Helmand province as others pull out.
(5) Given what we now know about how the US and its satraps have been abusing their privileged position in the global infrastructure, the idea that the western powers can be allowed to continue to control it has become untenable.