Parsi

n. (=Parsee)帕西人, 印度拜火教徒

发音

UK /ˈpɑːsiː/
US /ˈpɑɹsiː/

词形变化

Parsis 复数

别名

Parsee Passee Pausee Pārsī Pársí

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of the larger and older of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent (the other community being that of the Iranis).

    帕西人

    巴斯人

  2. 1.

    A Persian.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of, or pertaining to, the larger and older of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.

    帕西

  2. 1.

    Persian.

name
  1. 1.

    The Persian language.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

Parsee

词源

Borrowed from Gujarati પારસી (pārsī), "as the Gujaratis, from long tradition, called anyone from Iran", from Sanskrit पारसि (pārasi), पारसिक (pārasika), from Middle Persian [Term?]. The Indian term is attested many centuries prior to the arrival of the Parsis on the Indian subcontinent, and appears both for Iranians generally, as well as in the specific Iranian sense of Middle Persian parsi(k) ("of, or pertaining to, Persia proper") to refer to Sassanian kings, e.g. in the 4th-century Mahabharata. The Indian term is thus conventionally assumed to be ultimately a loanword from Middle Persian (or general Middle Iranian) parsi(k). In colonial times the term was also applied to the Portuguese, and by extension to Europeans in general. Older texts have pārasā́rya "Perso-Iranian", etc. Other Iranian ethnonyms found in the Mahabharata include Sanskrit pahlava, pahnava "Parthian(s)", sāka "(eastern) Scythian(s)", bāhlika "Bactrian(s)".

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