Farsistan

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

Farsistan

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

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

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   • 1637, Pierre d'Avity, Le monde‎^[1]:

     Quant à l’Empire du Sofi, qui s’eſt grandement aduancé depuis quelque tẽps, […] il embraſſe auiourd’huy toute la coſte du Golfe Perſique, […] et comprend la Perſe, ou le Farſiſtan […]

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