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
So they obeyed his bidding and laid its foundations and marked with large stones the lines thereof which measured a parasang of length by a parasang of breadth.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
But Rennell thinks the parasang not more than 2.78 English miles.
From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Watson, John Selby
The hippodrome occupied an area of three parasangs square, with an inner square measuring one parasang on each side, around which the races were run.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Radin, Paul
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