Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *párcušProto-Indo-Iranianderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Perzia

  Slovak · derived from

• περσικός

  Greek · inherited from

• پارس

  FAS · inherited from

• Peirs

  Irish · derived from

• Πέρσης

  Ancient Greek · borrowed from

• haraz

  Middle French · inherited from

• 波斯

  Japanese · derived from

• alférez

  Spanish · derived from

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