parasang

n. 帕勒桑(古波斯长度单位)

发音

UK /ˈpaɹəsaŋ/
US /ˈpɛɹəsæŋ/

词形变化

parasangs 复数 parasangs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres.

    To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].

    We were told that we still had to drive six or sixty parasang.

词源

From Latin parasanga, from Ancient Greek παρασάγγης (parasángēs), from unattested Old Persian *frasanhvah (indigenously attested only in Middle Iranian onwards); compare Middle Persian [script needed] (frasang /plsng/, “frasang (4 Roman miles)”) (whence Persian فرسنگ (farsang)). Doublet of farsang and farsakh.

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