پارسا

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Etymology

Uncertain. Not found in Middle Persian. A link to Middle Persian 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩 (pʾlsy /⁠Pārs⁠/, “Persia”) is often suggested, with reference to the Zoroastrian notion that the Iranians were the chosen nation of God.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? pārsā
Dari reading? pārsā
Iranian reading? pârsâ
Tajik reading? porso

Adjective

پارسا • (pârsâ)

  1. pious; devout
  2. abstemious; temperate
  3. (of a woman) chaste

Noun

پارسا • (pârsâ)

  1. pious person, saintly person; ascetic
    • 1258, Shaykh Muṣliḥ-ud-Dīn Saʿdī of Shiraz, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 52:
      پارسائی را دیدم بر کنار دریا که زخم پلنگی داشت و بهیچ دارو به نمیشد. مدتها در آن رنجور بود و شکر خدای عزّ وجلّ علی‌الدوام گفتی.
      pārsā'ē rā dīdam bar kinār-i daryā ki zaxm-i palangē dātš u ba hēč dārū bih na-mē-šud. muddat-hā dar ān ranjūr būd u šukr-i xudāy azza wa jalla ala-d-dawām guftē.
      On the seashore I saw a hermit who had a leopard wound that would not heal with any medicine. He had been suffering in pain for a long time, but he still thanked God constantly.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. chaste woman; virtuous woman

Proper noun

پارسا • (pârsâ)

  1. a male given name, Parsa

References

  1. ^ Soudavar, Abolala (2010) “The formation of Achaemenid imperial ideology and its impact on the Avesta”, in The World of Achaemenid Persia - History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East, London: I. B. Tauris, pages 111—138
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