parasang
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of parasang
C16: via Latin and Greek from a Persian word related to modern Persian farsang
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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
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
The building is situated on a high hill, one parasang from the city, and on a tongue of land which the sea surrounds on three sides.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various
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
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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