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farsistan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
far-sis-tan
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Fars, Persia proper, a province of Iran that is the historical homeland of the Persians.

Archaic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَارْسِسْتَان (fārsistān), from فَارْس (fārs, “ethnic Persian”) + ـِسْتَان (-istān, “place of”). By surface analysis, Fars + -istan.

Usage

Questions

What does farsistan mean?
Fars, Persia proper, a province of Iran that is the historical homeland of the Persians.
Where does farsistan come from?
Borrowed from Classical Persian فَارْسِسْتَان (fārsistān), from فَارْس (fārs, “ethnic Persian”) + ـِسْتَان (-istān, “place of”). By surface analysis, Fars + -istan.

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