Word Origin Summary

Persia is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿Old Persianborrowed from
2. *párcušProto-Indo-Iranianderived from
3. ΠερσίςAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Perzia

  Slovak · derived from

• Peirs

  Irish · derived from

• 波斯

  Japanese · borrowed from

• పర్షియా

  Telugu · borrowed from

• ペルシア

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Persian

  English · derived from

• Persia

  English · borrowed from

• Pasha

  Hausa · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root