Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Zoroastrian religious sect in India.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
Parsee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun Same as
parsee .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the larger of the two
Zoroastrian communities of theIndian subcontinent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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↑ The term Parsi was universally applied for all Iranians, regardless of faith, by all Indians.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Minhaj Ahmed Khan Lodi 2008
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[347] The word Parsi means a resident of the province of Fars or Pars in Persia, from which the name of the country is also derived.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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The Pazend language is the same as the so-called Parsi, i.e. the ancient Persian, as written till about the time of Firdusi, 1000 A.D. '
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861
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Coming back to Rajiv Gandhi, we all know now that he changed his so called Parsi religion to become a Catholic to marry Sania Maino of Turin, Italy.
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Do visit some of the links I have provided or even the "Parsi" section on my blog.
RCI - Celebrating Parsi Cuisine Meera 2009
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The proper name in Middle Persian is actually "Parsi," but this changed some time after the Islamic conquest of Persia to "Farsi" because Arabs don't have the bilabial plosive "P" in their language.
Think Progress 2009
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The proper name in Middle Persian is actually "Parsi," but this changed some time after the Islamic conquest of Persia to "Farsi" because Arabs don't have the bilabial plosive "P" in their language.
Think Progress 2009
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"Freelance journalist Umrigar alternates between sweet and biting accounts of her middle-class Parsi upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Bombay."
First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar: Book summary 2010
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It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu city; of a guilt-ridden stranger in her own land, an affluent child in a country mired in abysmal poverty.
First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar: Book summary 2010
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In particular, “Parsi” is used to distinguish the Persian language as a whole from the western dialect that is standard in Iran (as opposed to the eastern dialects like “Dari” and “Tajik”).
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