English Explanatory Dictionary

Farsistan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Farsistan

Etymology

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

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