farsakh

English

Etymology

From Persian فرسخ (farsax).

Noun

farsakh (plural farsakhs)

  1. parasang
    • 1846, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 353:
      The next day was to take us to Anár, over a desert of twelve farsakhs, and it was here we might expect the robbers.
    • 1888, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 86:
      The old authors considered Demâvend the highest mountain in the world, and estimated its height at four to five farsaks
    • 1911, A.B. Wiliams Jackson, From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam, page 178:
      From Rai to Damghan, 80 farsakhs; from Damghan to Nishapur, 80; total from Rai to Nishapur, 160 farsakhs.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay farsakh, from Arabic فَرْسَخ (farsaḵ), from Northwestern Middle Iranian *frasax (“parasang”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfarsax/
  • Rhymes: -sax, -ax, -x
  • Hyphenation: far‧sakh

Noun

farsakh (plural farsakh-farsakh)

  1. (archaic) parasang, farsang

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic فَرْسَخ (farsaḵ), from Northwestern Middle Iranian *frasax (“parasang”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fa(r).sax]
  • Rhymes: -sax, -ax
  • Hyphenation: far‧sakh

Noun

farsakh (Jawi spelling فرسخ)

  1. (obsolete) parasang, farsang

Descendants

  • Indonesian: farsakh

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[2], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

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