"Persic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... many learned treatises. Idivide them into two classes, those which appeared before and after Wilhelm's excellent essay, written in Latin, "De Infinitivi Vi et Natura," 1868; and in a new and improved edition, "De Infinitivo Linguarum Sanscrit, Bactric, Persic, Grc, Osc, Umbric, Latin, Gotic, forma et usu," Isenaci, 1873. In this essay the evidence supplied by the Veda was for the first time fully collected, and the whole question of the nature of the ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... etymologists of that learned class, who not only know whence words come, but also whither they are going, the term Fairy, or Faerie, is derived from Fae, which is again derived from Nympha. It is more probable the term is of oriental origin, and is derived from the Persic, through the medium of the Arabic. In Persic, the term Peri expresses a species of imaginary being, which resembles the Fairy in some of its qualities, and is one of the fairest creatures of romantic fancy. This ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... Ferdinandi nep. Eduardi pronep. Johannis I. abnep. Portugal. et Alg. rex. Affric. Aethiop. arabic. persic. Indi. ob felicem partum Catherinae reginae conjugis incomparabilis suscepto Emanuele filio principi, aram cum signis pos. dedicavitque anno MDXXXII. Divae Mariae Virgini ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson
... derivation from the Persian "Hazar o yek Roz" for which see my vol. x. p.441. The name Khudadad is common to most Eastern peoples, the Sansk. Devadatta, the Gr. {Greek} and Dorotheus; the Lat. Deodatus, the Ital. Diodato, and Span. Diosdado, the French Dieu-donne, and the Arab.-Persic Alladad, Divdad and Khudabaksh. Khuda is the mod. Pers. form of the old Khudaisovereign, king, as in Mah-i-Khudaithe sovereign moon, Kam-Khudaimaster ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton |
