parasang
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of parasang
C16: via Latin and Greek from a Persian word related to modern Persian farsang
Example Sentences
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Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well,—to be Xenophontic,—from the Race-Course that evening we marched one stadium, one parasang, to a cedar-grove up the road.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
When we found ourselves a parasang or two parasangs away from the city, we waxed athirst; and presently we came to a garden.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But Rennell thinks the parasang not more than 2.78 English miles.
From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by John Selby Watson
They discharge themselves into the Euphrates, are distant from each other one parasang, and there are bridges over them.
From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by John Selby Watson
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