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noun - a Persian unit of distance
PARASANGS - The parasang is a historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance, the length of which varied according to terrain and speed of travel. The European eq...
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The parasang is a historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance, the length of which varied according to terrain and speed of travel. The European equivalent is the league. * The parasang may have originally been some fraction of the distance an infantryman could march in some predefined period of time. Mid-5th-century BCE Herodotus (v.53) speaks of [an army] traveling the equivalent of five parasangs per day. * In antiquity, the term was used throughout much of the Middle East, and the Old Iranian language from which it derives can no longer be determined (only twoof what must have been dozensof Old Iranian languages are attested). There is no consensus with respect to its etymology or literal meaning. In addition to its appearance in various forms in later Iranian languages (e.g. Middle Persian frasang or Sogdian fasukh), the term also appears in Greek as parasangs (), in Latin as parasanga, in Hebrew as parasa (), in Armenian as hrasakh (), in Georgian as parsakhi, in Syriac as pars (), |