parasang

Английский Язык - Турецкий язык

Определение parasang в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

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Английский Язык - Английский Язык

Определение parasang в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity. Functionally comparable to the European league, and presumed to have varied between two and four miles

To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart .

{n} a Persian measure from 3 to 6 miles

The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles

A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles

A Persian measure of length, varying from two to four miles

Расстановка переносов

par·a·sang

Этимология

() From Latin parasanga, from Ancient Greek παρασάγγης, from unattested Old Persian (indigenously attested only in Middle Iranian onwards)