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English
Etymology
From Persian فرسخ (farsax).
Noun
farsakh (plural farsakhs)
- parasang
1846, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 353:The next day was to take us to Anár, over a desert of twelve farsakhs, and it was here we might expect the robbers.
1888, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 86:The old authors considered Demâvend the highest mountain in the world, and estimated its height at four to five farsaks
1911, A.B. Wiliams Jackson, From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam, page 178:From Rai to Damghan, 80 farsakhs; from Damghan to Nishapur, 80; total from Rai to Nishapur, 160 farsakhs.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Arabic فَرْسَخ (farsaḵ), from Northwestern Middle Iranian *frasax (“parasang”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
farsakh (first-person possessive farsakhku, second-person possessive farsakhmu, third-person possessive farsakhnya)
- (archaic) parasang, farsang
References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
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