Old Persian

American  

noun

1. an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. OPers

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Old Persian British  

noun

1. an ancient language belonging to the West Iranian branch of the Indo-European family, recorded in cuneiform inscriptions of the 6th to the 4th centuries _bc See also Middle Persian

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Old Persian

So deep do the Iranian roots of nirvana run that even the English word “paradise” comes from paridaida, the Old Persian term for walled garden.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Charlie Appleby, his trainer, has a 50% strike-rate in Breeders’ Cup races and has been aiming Old Persian at Saturday’s race for many months.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2019

On the eastern spur of this mountain wall, in a fertile plain, six leagues long and four leagues broad, lay Ecbatana, Old Persian Hangmatana, i. e. place of assembly, the Achmeta of the Hebrews.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker

Meanwhile a young English officer in the East India Company's service, now Sir Henry Rawlinson, had been working in Persia unassisted, and at a distance from libraries, upon the Old Persian texts.

From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Under the Arsacids the Old Persian passed into Middle Persian, which at a later time was known by the name of the Parthians, the tribe at that time supreme in Persia.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Max Duncker